Around the same time, Mack Fulwyler, an engineer working at Los Alamos National Laboratory, needed to separate particles, so he drew on existing techniques to create droplets to separate cells from a ...

Flow cytometry, a technique first applied to eukaryotic cells, has been adapted to the analysis of viability, metabolic state, and antigenic markers of bacteria.1-4 In particular, flow cytometry can ...

Scientists prepare samples as single cell suspensions and labels components of interest with fluorescent antibodies or other probes. The cytometer uses pumps to draw the sample through tubing to ...