Dear Flowers,
Please try a click on the Partec homepage:
http://www.partec.de
where you fill find some information about the Partec PA Ploidy Analyzer and
the CCA Cell Counter Analyzer, which are quite compact and worldwide used
for routine cell analysis.
Wolfgang Göhde jr.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Robb Habbersett <robb@telomere.lanl.gov>
To: cyto-inbox
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: Portable Cytometry?
>
> Steve-
>
> A few years back (2-3) Gary Salzman, at Los Alamos, designed and built a
> small transportable cytometer for the Army, with BioRad as the industrial
> partner. The Army wanted a small, rugged instrument (that could be
carried
> around in a Humvee) to be used to detect biological warfare agents. The
> cytometer was fairly successful in a generic way - I don't know exactly
how
> well it worked as far as the Army was concerned and I don't know what
> BioRad did with the instrument design. Gary's machine was, in some ways,
> competitive with the "Brite" but not long afterwards the company stopped
> making that instrument as well. You might want to contact Gary Salzman
> directly at: salzman@nis.lanl.gov . There are more nifty detectors now
> than ever before: miniature PMTs, APDs, etc., as well as many data
> acquisition options such as National Instruments' wide variety of cards
for
> PC and MAC platforms (including laptops) and LabView software to control
> the cards has become pretty sophisticated and versatile. It probably
would
> not be trivial to build a very small and rugged instrument {with one or
two
> solid-state lasers, two or three fluorescence channels and forward light
> scatter} but conceptually it's not too difficult and there are many slick
> components now to make the task much easier.
>
> Robb Habbersett
>
>
> At 05:26 PM 2/9/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Dear Flow persons
> > This relates to the interesting question of Lin Xiaohua,
Tropical
> >Marine Science Institute
> >National University of Singapore.
> >
> > Is there somewhere/anywhere by what company, a small and
portable
> >flow cytometer that could be packed and taken along on a trip to a highly
> >untechnological part of the world (e.g., jungle) and be used "in the
field"?
> > Thank you all for your thoughts on this matter.
> >Steve
> >
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> >** Stephen L. Gaffin, Ph.D. **
> >** Research Physiologist **
> >** Military Nutrition & Biochemistry Div **
> >**US Army Research Inst for Environmental Medicine **
> >** Natick MA 01760-5007 USA **
> >** **
> >** Tel. 508-233-4867 Fax 508-233-4869 **
> >** Stephen.Gaffin@na.amedd.army.mil **
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