Applications

This technology has applications in a number of fields, including molecular biology, pathology, immunology, plant biology and marine biology. It has broad application in medicine (especially in transplantation, hematology, tumor immunology and chemotherapy, prenatal diagnosis, genetics and sperm sorting for sex preselection). In marine biology, the auto fluorescent properties of photosynthetic plankton can be exploited by flow cytometry in order to characterise abundance and community structure. In protein engineering, flow cytometry is used in conjunction with yeast display and bacterial display to identify cell surface-displayed protein variants with desired properties.(15.)

 The main Applications are as follows :

1. Diagnosis of Hematologic Nalignancies   

2. Detection of Minimal Residual Disease   

3. Lymphocyte Subset Enumeration    

4. Analysis of DNA Ploidy and Cell Cycle   

5. Efficacy of Cancer Chemotherapy   

6. Reticulocyte Enumeration     

7. Platelet Function Analysis     

8. Cell function Analysis      

9. Applications of Transfsion Medicine    

10.Applications in Organ Transplantation 

Reference :

15.http://flowlab-childrens-harvard.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/PRINCIPLESANDAPPLICATION.29464931.pdf