DMMC Course: TECHNIQUES & STRATEGIES IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE
1415-1500 Thursday 7 December 2006. UCD Conway Institute Lecture Theatre, UCD
Cell
imaging and sorting – flow cytometry
Dr
William Watson (UCD
Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research)
Flow cytometry is a method for quantitating components or structural features of cells, primarily by optical means. Although it makes measurements on one cell at a time, it can process thousands of cells in a few seconds. Since cell types can be distinguished by quantitating structural features, flow cytometry can be used to count prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells of different types in complex mixtures.