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Increasing the power of cytometry

A new method that barcodes cells by assigning different intensities of fluorescent dyes to differently treated samples allows the simultaneous processing of a large number of samples, as one pool, thus increasing the throughput of multidimensional cytometry.

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Figure 1: Analytical steps for analysis of barcoded samples.

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Jacobberger, J. Increasing the power of cytometry. Nat Methods 3, 343–344 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0506-343

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