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  <title><![CDATA[Nex Lab Flow Zone]]></title>
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  <description><![CDATA[Nex Lab Flow Zone offers multi-parameter flow cytometry, cell sorting, and microfluidic analysis in Harlow, Essex. Precise data, clear gating reports, no minimum sample count.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Summer scheduling: what to know before booking in August]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[August brings a quieter period for many research groups, but our instruments run through the summer. Here is what to keep in mind if you are planning runs during the university recess, including adjusted turnaround times and how to book around the August bank holiday.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-07-14</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[New: FlowJo Template Pack now available to purchase]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[We have packaged twelve of our internal FlowJo workspace templates and made them available for purchase. They cover T-cell immunophenotyping, B-cell panels, apoptosis assays, and cell cycle analysis, each with annotated gate names and a brief rationale note.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-30</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to Design a Multi-Colour Flow Cytometry Panel]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Panel design is where most flow cytometry experiments succeed or fail, and it happens before you ever touch an instrument. Choosing the wrong fluorochrome for a low-density antigen, or pairing two tandem dyes that bleed heavily into each other, can produce data that looks plausible but does not reflect the biology. This guide covers the decisions that matter most, in the order you should make them.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-06-18</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What Is a Compensation Matrix and Why Does It Matter]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Compensation is one of those concepts that researchers often accept without fully understanding, which is fine until something goes wrong. When a compensation error produces a population that appears to shift with a marker it should not correlate with, the source of the problem is not always obvious. This article explains what compensation does, how the matrix is calculated, and what the most common errors look like in practice.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-05-30</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Preparing Sorted Cells for RNA Sequencing and Proteomics]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Cell sorting produces a purified population, but what happens in the hour after the sort often determines whether the downstream experiment works. RNA degrades quickly. Proteins can be modified by collection buffer components. The decisions made at the point of collection, about buffer composition, tube coating, temperature, and timing, matter as much as the sort itself. This article covers the practical steps for the most common downstream applications.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-04-15</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Microfluidic Chip Priming: Common Problems and How to Fix Them]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[A microfluidic chip that will not prime correctly is one of the more frustrating problems in a flow experiment, partly because the failure mode is not always visible and partly because the fix is often something small. This article covers the most common priming problems we encounter with PDMS and glass chips, and the steps that resolve them in most cases.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-03-28</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Gating Strategy for Longitudinal Flow Cytometry Studies]]></title>
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    <description><![CDATA[Longitudinal flow cytometry studies introduce a problem that single-timepoint experiments do not have: the gating strategy must remain consistent across weeks or months of data collection, often with different analysts running different timepoints. When it does not, population shifts that appear to reflect biology may actually reflect a gate that moved two pixels to the left between week three and week four. This article describes the practices we use to prevent that.]]></description>
    <pubDate>2026-02-10</pubDate>
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