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Seeing Potential: How to Visualise Your Multipotent Cells

The cells I work with are special — they’re stem cells. This means that when it comes to deciding their ultimate fate, they’re still sitting on the fence. This ability is great for identifying pathways of cellular development and differentiation. It also serves research into tissue regeneration and human disease. But how can we make…

Putting Down a Marker in Flow Cytometry to Help Determine Positivity

Putting Down a Marker in Flow Cytometry to Help Determine Positivity

In many biological experiments the question that a researcher wants to ask is – ‘do some or all of my cells express a particular protein?’ There are many ways of doing this, which you will be familiar with e.g. Western blotting, immunoprecipitation, microscopic examination of stained cells and even mass spectrometry. Using Flow Cytometry to…