From: PETER BERCZ (BERCZ.PETER@EPAMAIL.EPA.GOV)
Date: Wed Aug 05 1998 - 13:10:45 EST
** Reply Requested When Convenient ** There are FACS's (that is fluorescence activated cell sortes) which are definitely NOT based on the flow principle, and example is a MERIDIAN ULTIMA confocal cell sorter. This device indeed sorts cells based on their laser activated fluorescence, while it has nothing to do with flow cytometry at all. I agree "FACS" must not be used in publications. (Besides I have a distinct aversion to acronyms. Why ? you may ask: Please consider , the term "FISH" has been 100 % expropriated by the "fluorescent in situ hybridizing" community, saf fish, pronto you are a hybridizer. Give me a break, what am I to do when I work with fish (piscine) cells, like lymphocytes from carp, brown bullheads and stonrollers? When the time comes, and we have fluorescence labelled gene probes for stone rollers, as it may happen soon, am I going to report FISH in fish? acronym
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