What are Alignflow Flow Cytometry Alignment Beads used for?
Alignflow Flow Cytometry Alignment Beads are reliable references for aligning, focusing, and calibrating flow cytometers. The Alignflow beads are highly uniform with respect to size and fluorescence intensity, resulting in low CVs for both FSC and intensity. The beads approximate the size, emission wavelength, and intensity of many biological samples and permit the calibration of the flow cytometer’s laser source, optics, and stream flow without wasting valuable and sensitive experimental material. They are available in 2.5 µM and 6.0 µM sizes for blue, red, and UV lasers. Alignflow Flow Cytometry Alignment Beads for UV Lasers are optimally excitable between 350-370 nm with emission in the range of 400-470 nm, but they can also be excited by a violet laser.
Apoptosis is a stochastic, physiological form of cell death that is characterized by unique morphological and biochemical properties. A defining feature of apoptosis in all cells is the apoptotic volume decrease or AVD, which has been considered a passive component of the cell death process. Most cells have inherent volume ... More