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Blocking: Tandem breakdown
As much as possible, avoid combining multiple factors that cause tandem breakdown.
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Blocking: CellBlox
CellBlox: a blocking solution for working with NovaFluors
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Blocking: Brilliant Dye interactions
The issue:
Interactions between Brilliant dyes on antibody conjugates.
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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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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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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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Data analysis: Scaling your data for dimensionality reduction
Today we're talking about scales. Very boring, very important.
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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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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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Optimizing cytokine staining--fixatives
In this post , I discussed the importance of testing and titrating the stimuli used for intracellular cytokine staining. Today let's look...
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What's that cluster?
Today I'm going to talk about a feature in flowcytoscript--an R-based workflow for flow-cytometry analysis from the Liston Lab--that...
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Optimizing cytokine staining--Ionomycin
Intracellular cytokine staining can be challenging to get right. The cells need to be in great condition to withstand the stimulation...
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