Fu et al. utilize insights from #phylogenomics, flow #cytometry, #cytology, and #morphology to argue that hybridization and apomixis contribute to diversification in Elatostema.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13199 @WileyEcolEvol #PlantSci #evolution #systematics #JSE
Data Analysis: EmbedSOM's party trick

Tired of trying to waiting for tSNE to run on large data sets? What if we could run any dimensionality reduction approach, but in a fraction of the time? Well, with EmbedSOM from Mirek Kratochvil, you can. Let's look at how this works.The basic approach of EmbedSOM is to create an embedding (dimensionality reduction) based on a self-organizing map (SOM) of the data. We saw two different versions of this in the post on dimensionality reductions, both the standard SOM and the improved growing quad

Colibri Cytometry
Experiment update by @MakerTobey - parts complete to build a first version of #OpenUC-based droplet-#cytometry light sheet assembly based on an #OpenSource fiber #laser:
http://www.experiment.com/u/rYin8w
#DIYbio #lab #instruments #imaging
Experiment update - parts complete to build a first version

For Science!

Experiment - Moving Science Forward

Researchers identified a predictive #biomarker for the seriousness of a #COVID19 infection. They used a method from image-based flow #cytometry that permits the rapid analysis of interactions between large numbers of #bloodcells: http://go.tum.de/696303

#platelets

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Risk of serious COVID-19 infection can now be predicted

Researchers developed a method for assessing the number and structure of aggregated blood platelets that can help quantify the risk of a severe COVID infection.

Researchers suggest metal #labeling strategy for single-#cell multiplexing with mass #cytometry.

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-metal-strategy-single-cell-multiplexing-mass.html

Researchers suggest metal labeling strategy for single-cell multiplexing with mass cytometry

Researchers from the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (SIBET) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have recently proposed a novel metal labeling strategy to increase the sensitivity of mass cytometry (MC) and expand the number of MC detection channels.

Phys.org

New plastic #pollution research by Keys et al. (2022).

The group used a novel method (flow #cytometry, usually used to count and analyze cells in liquid culture or suspension) to count extremely tiny #plastic particles in #seabird pre-guano. They found very high abundances of particles per #bird.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.2c06973