>where can we buy beads that fluoresce ONLY in >green, around 1 um size. Very few of the dyes commonly (or uncommonly) used in cytometry have narrow enough emission spectra to be described as fluorescing only in green (520-530 nm for the sake of this discussion); there is almost always some fluorescence component in the 570-580 nm region, and often detectable fluorescence well above 600 nm. Fluorescence from inorganic materials, e.g., uranium or the rare earth chelates, is more monochromatic, but I'm not sure these materials would be excited significantly at 488 nm. Among the existing organic dyes, the BODIPY series from Molecular Probes have narrower emission spectra than most others. -Howard
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