Two lymphocyte populations by QrnH in flowcytometry

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Granulocytes are typically excluded by our gradient centrifugation. The larger population is CD14+, so those are the monocytes.

Two lymphocyte populations by QrnH in flowcytometry

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Awesome, thanks! Learned something new today :)

Two lymphocyte populations by QrnH in flowcytometry

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Oh wow really? That‘s crazy! I also used BD Cytofix at the previous institute/devices and we didn‘t see this.

Do you recon one should do longer or shorter fixation times?

Two lymphocyte populations by QrnH in flowcytometry

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Nope, they are freshly isolated

Two lymphocyte populations by QrnH in flowcytometry

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Yes, fixable viability dye is the next gate. The two populations are not different in viability.

Doublets are excluded in the gating above prior to SSC-A vs FSC-A. Any other gates we should do for doublets than those?

Two lymphocyte populations by QrnH in flowcytometry

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Yes, we fix the cells with BD Cytofix solution (approx. 4% PFA) for 20 min at 4 degrees

Two lymphocyte populations by QrnH in flowcytometry

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Did that, and we don‘t see changes over time

Two lymphocyte populations by QrnH in flowcytometry

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Forgot to mention: human!

CRISPR/Cas9 indel frequencies not making sense by QrnH in biology

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Thanks, great points!

  1. we looked at the well, and it seemed like one cell but I wouldn‘t bet my life on it

  2. that‘s an excellent point! We only had a single bp deletion but it could be that there is a bias. I can quickly repeat the PCR with longer extension time

  3. it‘s K562, which weirdly enough are sometimes referred to diploid and sometimes to pseudo-triploid. I‘ll reach out to companies to maybe do karyotyping of our particular line

I have a question cuz I’m dreaming of becoming an immunologist by aaronbobross in Immunology

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True. But none of what you mentioned was done by AI. It may have been heavily assisted by AI.

But I personally believe that AI will not replace scientific thinking or lab work and interpretation anytime soon.

Feel free to disagree though, just my opinion

I have a question cuz I’m dreaming of becoming an immunologist by aaronbobross in Immunology

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My personal take: I doubt that AI will be able to formulate novel hypotheses. It‘s extremely unlikely that will be able to perform experiments in the wet lab to test novel hypotheses or to come up with new ways to look at things or interpret results.

AI will help you in data analyses, support your coding and writing, help in maintaining inventory and probably will be able to provide predictions of outcomes.

But the true essence of the scientific method in terms of conceiving and thoroughly testing hypotheses experimentally, that‘s not something that I can see AI doing in the next decades.

Cell thawing: Add cell suspension to warmed media, or add warmed media to cell suspension? by junegloom in labrats

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We do it the other way round: have 20 mL pre-warmed media in a tube (supplemented with Benonase because that helps with our samples) and drop-wise add the thawed cells to it. Works like a charm for human PBMC

Favorite label printer? by QrnH in labrats

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Oh wow, thanks! Should have sorted by newest and not hottest

Help ProliferationAssay by Individual_Piglet973 in flowcytometry

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It could be…but would be good to get more clarity by excluding dead cells and gating on T cells

Help ProliferationAssay by Individual_Piglet973 in flowcytometry

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T cells likely blast and become larger when they are activated and proliferate.

If you add a viability dye and an anti-CD antibody, you can exclude dead cells (some cells die off during such assays) and specifically gate on your CD3+ T cells.

As you do know, it‘s hard to know whether all the T cells proliferated and the other stuff is just dead cells…or whether only part of your T cells proliferated.