The Becton Dickinson FACSCalibur™ is an automated, four-color flow cytometry system capable of analyzing and sorting cells. Flow cytometry simultaneously measures and then analyzes multiple physical characteristics of cells as they flow in a fluid stream through a beam of light. The properties measured include relative size, relative granularity or internal complexity, and relative fluorescence intensity. These characteristics are determined using an optical-to-electronic coupling system that records how the cell scatters incident laser light and emits fluorescence.

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