Blog Topic: Flow Cytometry
How to Decide Whether to Upgrade Your Flow Cytometer
In this blog, we explore the key signs of ageing instrumentation, from downtime and software limitations to throughput, automation, and panel complexity.
- Jul 29, 2026
- 8 min read
- Richard Cuthbert, PhD
How Flow Cytometry Powers Cancer Immunotherapy Research
In this blog, we discuss how flow cytometry is used to support cancer immunotherapy research, from characterizing immune cell populations to understanding treatment responses.
- Apr 30, 2026
- 6 min read
- Chloe Fenton, PhD
Sample Preparation in Flow Cytometry — Tips & Tricks
Improve flow cytometry sample quality with practical tips, troubleshooting advice, and optimisation strategies covering cell harvesting, viability, fixation, and tissue preparation.
- Feb 26, 2026
- 5 min read
- Chloe Fenton, PhD
How to Build Complex Multicolor Flow Cytometry Panels
In this blog, we’ve compiled our top tips and steps to follow when designing multicolor flow cytometry panels.
- Jan 22, 2026
- 5 min read
- Chloe Fenton, PhD
Operation Titration: Tips for Titrating Your Antibodies
In this blog, we discuss best practices for titrating your antibodies for flow cytometry.
- Sep 05, 2024
- 4 min read
- Chloe Fenton, PhD
Top Tips for Presenting Your Flow Data
In this blog, we cover some key considerations to keep in mind when presenting your data, with a particular focus on the differences between an external and internal audience.
- Mar 11, 2024
- 5 min read
- Chloe Fenton, PhD
Compliance-Ready Flow Cytometry with the ZE5 Cell Analyzer
At Bio-Rad, we recognize the need for cutting-edge flow cytometry at all stages of the drug discovery process, so we have partnered with Xybion to provide a solution for compliance-ready flow cytometry with the ZE5 Cell Analyzer.
- Feb 01, 2023
- 3 min read
- Richard Cuthbert, PhD
An Introduction to Spectral Flow Cytometry
This blog highlights the basic principles of spectral flow cytometry and some of its advantages over conventional flow cytometry.
- May 08, 2021
- 4 min read
- Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD
How to Use Flow Cytometry to Measure Apoptosis: Part Two
Design robust experiments and troubleshoot existing protocols for measuring apoptosis by flow cytometry, by following the advice in this blog.
- Feb 19, 2021
- 4 min read
- Katie Roberts, PhD
How to Use Flow Cytometry to Measure Apoptosis: Part One
Learn about the different tools for studying apoptosis by flow cytometry and how to use them to get the best results.
- Feb 01, 2021
- 5 min read
- Katie Roberts, PhD
How to Avoid Cell Stress While Cell Sorting
This blog describes the forces that cells undergo during sorting, and practical steps you can take to minimize cell stress and get great results in your downstream applications, like RNA sequencing.
- Sep 24, 2020
- 5 min read
- Katie Roberts, PhD
9 Tips to Get Publication Ready Flow Plots
In this blog, our Flow Cytometry Research Associate shares 9 top tips to generate publication-worthy flow plots in a format that reviewers would like to see.
- Jun 10, 2020
- 6 min read
- Sharon Sanderson, PhD
How to Get More Out of Your Multicolor Panels
Learn how to build better panels for flow cytometry through optimizing for antigen density, using a dump channel and including viability markers.
- Mar 13, 2018
- 4 min read
- Kimberley Bryon-Dodd, PhD
A Guide to Gating in Flow Cytometry
This blog post will take you through the various gating strategies for effective flow cytometry analysis.
- Dec 16, 2016
- 4 min read
- Annalise Barnette, PhD
Tandem Dyes—The Power Couples of Flow Cytometry
This post describes what tandem dyes are and what to keep in mind when incorporating them into your flow cytometry panels.
- Aug 28, 2015
- 2 min read
- Bio-Rad
To Control or Not to Control, that Is the Multicolor Flow Question…
This post describes what an isotype control is and how one could be beneficial in your multi-color flow cytometry experiments.
- Jul 06, 2015
- 3 min read
- Bio-Rad
Intracellular flow cytometry - the good, the bad and the cytokines
This post describes a few key factors to consider when designing intracellular flow cytometry experiments.
- May 27, 2015
- 1 min read
- Bio-Rad
10 tips for designing a basic flow cytometry panel
This post provides flow cytometry novices with a basic overview of how to design a multi-color flow cytometry panel.
- May 08, 2015
- 2 min read
- Bio-Rad