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Sep 1, 20241 min read
Colibri Cytometry on Substack
I'm going to try out posting Substack as well. That allows people to subscribe for email updates. Check it out if that's your jam....
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Aug 27, 20246 min read
Unmixing tips: control clean-up
Cell-based controls are inherently multi-colour controls. Understanding this is key to getting good unmixing.
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Aug 19, 20242 min read
Unmixing tips: using multiple controls
Why do we want multiple controls? The most common reason, I expect, is that you'll have a control that you aren't sure will work.
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Aug 12, 20244 min read
Blocking: Tandem breakdown
As much as possible, avoid combining multiple factors that cause tandem breakdown.
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Aug 5, 20244 min read
Blocking: CellBlox
CellBlox: a blocking solution for working with NovaFluors
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Jul 29, 20244 min read
Blocking: Brilliant Dye interactions
The issue:
Interactions between Brilliant dyes on antibody conjugates.
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Jul 22, 20243 min read
Blocking: Monocyte block
Monocyte Block destroys your cells.
When used intracellularly, Monocyte Block reduces transcription factor staining.
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Jul 15, 20246 min read
Blocking: Fc block and related reagents
Let's discuss Fc block, which is what most people think of when we talk about "blocking" for flow cytometry.
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Jul 10, 20241 min read
Flowcytoscript update
The Liston-Dooley lab's flowcytoscript for simplified cytometry data analysis has been updated.
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Jul 8, 20242 min read
Blocking: the value of protein
Today we're looking at the most basic of blocking reagents: generic protein.
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Jul 1, 20242 min read
Blocking: a cure for all your problems or a cause of all your problems?
In this series, I’m going to review blocking reagents and how to use them for best effect.
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Jun 24, 20241 min read
Colibri resources
If you haven't looked beyond the blog, today is the day to do so. Colibri Cytometry provides other resources, which are highlighted in...
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Jun 17, 20241 min read
How to do different types of flow
An overview of protocols for measuring different modalities by flow cytometry
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Jun 3, 20244 min read
What's that cluster? Part II
If you're interested in this problem, you may wish to get in touch with Ryan Brinkman of Dotmatics regarding the SOULCAP project.
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May 27, 20244 min read
Data Analysis: Comparing Dimensionality Reductions
In this post , I compared a few dimensionality reduction approaches for visualizing flow cytometry data. I plotted the flow cytometry...
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May 20, 20243 min read
Cytokine staining: When to stain
How do we deal with marker downregulation during intracellular cytokine staining?
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May 13, 20245 min read
Data analysis: Scaling your data for dimensionality reduction
Today we're talking about scales. Very boring, very important.
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May 3, 20244 min read
Overnight staining for scRNA-Seq?
The idea? Combine overnight staining with RNA sequencing.
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Apr 29, 20247 min read
How to conjugate your own antibodies
When we conjugate an antibody to a fluorophore, we are performing a chemical reaction, creating a covalent bond between the fluorophore and
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Apr 22, 20244 min read
Data Analysis: EmbedSOM's party trick
Tired of trying to waiting for tSNE to run on large data sets? What if we could run any dimensionality reduction approach, but in a...
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