by Jeffrey M Perkel
HOW IT WORKS	Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorter The Scientist 2004, 18(14):41 Published   19 July 2004

Nearly 35 years since Stanford researcher Leonard Herzenberg and colleagues developed the first fluorescence activated cell sorter (FACS), the instrument has become the immunologists' key tool. Immunology journals are chock-full of flow-cytometry profiles, the characteristic plots that such instruments produce.

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