What is Flow Cytometry (FACS Analysis)? | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Originally developed in the late 1960s, flow cytometry is a popular analytical cell-biology technique that utilizes light to count and profile cells in a heterogenous fluid mixture. Flow cytometry is a particularly powerful method because it allows a researcher to rapidly, accurately, and simply collect data related to many parameters from a heterogeneous fluid mixture containing live cells.

Flow cytometry is used extensively throughout the life and biomedical sciences, and can be applied in any scenario where a researcher needs to rapidly profile a large population of loose cells in a liquid media. For example, in immunology flow cytometry is used to identify, separate, and characterize various immune cell subtypes by virtue of their size and morphology.

When additional information is required, antibodies tagged with fluorescent dyes, and raised against highly specific cell surface ant...