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flow cytometry
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flow cytometry [¦flō sī¦täm·ə·trē]
(cell and molecular biology)
A technique for optical analysis and separation of cells and metaphase chromosomes based on light scattering and fluorescence.


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amp;nbsp;     Select Sires in Plainfield, Ohio, added flow cytometer machines at its location last spring and already sells sexed semen on dairy bulls.
For instance, widely used machines called flow cytometers distinguish and count various human-cell types by using light scattered as cells pass through alaser beam, notes biophysicist Robert M.
A life sciences firm in Northern California, which uses instruments manufactured by Masterson's company, frequently faced the daunting task of manually searching through thousands of FACS flow cytometer and Leica confocal microscope files to extract specific data points and then relate or link that information to other instrument or Microsoft Office files.
 
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