Flow Cytometry

The Analytical Cytometry Laboratory (ACL) is a Shared Resource facility and joint venture between the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Heart & Lung Institute. This facility provides basic and clinical investigators with modern flow cytometric hardware and software for cell characterization and sorting. Flow cytometry is a laser-based technique that is useful for measuring the number of cells in a sample, the percentage of live cells in a sample, and certain characteristics of cells, such as size, shape, and the presence of tumor markers on the cell surface.