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Flow Cytometry

Flow cytometry has been an essential technique in modern biological research. It was originally used almost exclusively for fluorescence-based analysis and sorting of cells labeled with fluorescent antibodies, and this is still the main application. But recently, the number and variety of applications using flow cytometers has been expanding rapidly. This collection of articles highlights recent methodological advances in the use of flow cytometry and the powerful new applications being developed.


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Editorial

Editorial

Harnessing the flow

Daniel Evanko


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Flow Cytometry collection

Commentary

Single-cell genomics

Tomer Kalisky & Stephen R Quake

Nature Methods 8, 311–314 (2011)

doi:10.1038/nmeth0411-311


Commentary

A model for harmonizing flow cytometry in clinical trials

Holden T Maecker, J Philip McCoy Jr & the FOCIS Human Immunophenotyping Consortium

Nature Immunology 11, 975–978 (2010)

doi:10.1038/ni1110-975


Brief Communication

Analysis of repetitive DNA in chromosomes by flow cytometry

Julie Brind'Amour & Peter M Lansdorp

Nature Methods 8, 484–486 (2011)

doi:10.1038/nmeth.1601


Letter

Tumour evolution inferred by single-cell sequencing

Nicholas Navin, Jude Kendall, Jennifer Troge, Peter Andrews, Linda Rodgers, Jeanne McIndoo, Kerry Cook, Asya Stepansky, Dan Levy, Diane Esposito, Lakshmi Muthuswamy, Alex Krasnitz, W. Richard McCombie, James Hicks & Michael Wigler

Nature 472, 90–94 (2011)

doi:10.1038/nature09807


Letter

Sensitive digital quantification of DNA methylation in clinical samples

Meng Li, Wei-dong Chen, Nickolas Papadopoulos, Steven N Goodman, Niels Christian Bjerregaard, Søren Laurberg, Bernard Levin, Hartmut Juhl, Nadir Arber, Helen Moinova, Kris Durkee, Kerstin Schmidt, Yiping He, Frank Diehl, Victor E Velculescu, Shibin Zhou, Luis A Diaz Jr, Kenneth W Kinzler, Sanford D Markowitz & Bert Vogelstein

Nature Biotechnology 27, 858–863 (2009)

doi:10.1038/nbt.1559


Article

Large-scale sorting of C. elegans embryos reveals the dynamics of small RNA expression

Marlon Stoeckius, Jonas Maaskola, Teresa Colombo, Hans-Peter Rahn, Marc R Friedländer, Na Li, Wei Chen, Fabio Piano & Nikolaus Rajewsky

Nature Methods 6, 745–751 (2009)

doi:10.1038/nmeth.1370


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Knocking out multigene redundancies via cycles of sexual assortment and fluorescence selection

Yo Suzuki, Robert P St Onge, Ramamurthy Mani, Oliver D King, Adrian Heilbut, Vyacheslav M Labunskyy, Weidong Chen, Linda Pham, Lan V Zhang, Amy H Y Tong, Corey Nislow, Guri Giaever, Vadim N Gladyshev, Marc Vidal, Peter Schow, Joseph Lehár & Frederick P Roth

Nature Methods 8, 159–164 (2011)

doi:10.1038/nmeth.1550


Protocol

Fluorescence-activated cell sorting for aptamer SELEX with cell mixtures

Günter Mayer, Marie-Sophie L Ahmed, Andreas Dolf, Elmar Endl, Percy A Knolle & Michael Famulok

Nature Protocols 5, 1993–2004 (2010)

doi:10.1038/nprot.2010.163