Automating Antibody Prep for Master Mix in Flow Cytometry: Eliminating Costly Errors and Standardizing Workflows

By Raffaele Lu, Automation Engineer Lead | Edited by Melvin Lye, Senior Director of Scientific Affairs May 20, 2025 In the world of pharmaceutical research and clinical development, flow cytometry is a cornerstone of immune profiling, biomarker validation, and cell-based screening. As the field evolves toward increasingly complex, multi-parameter panels, one critical aspect of the […]

Comprehensive analysis of B cell repopulation in ocrelizumab-treated patients with multiple sclerosis by mass cytometry and proteomics

Wang, M., Otto, C., Zapata, C. F., Dehlinger, A., Gallaccio, G., Diekmann, L., Niederschweiberer, M., Schindler, P., Körtvélyessy, P., Kunkel, D., Paul, F., Ruprecht, K., & Böttcher, C. (2025). Comprehensive analysis of B cell repopulation in ocrelizumab-treated patients with multiple sclerosis by mass cytometry and proteomics. iScience, 112383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112383 Ocrelizumab, an anti-CD20 antibody, depletes CD20+ B […]

Immunopeptidomic MHC-I Profiling and Immunogenicity Testing Identifies Tcj2 as a New Chagas Disease mRNA Vaccine Candidate

Versteeg, L., Adhikari, R., Robinson, G., Lee, J., Wei, J., Islam, N., Keegan, B., Russell, W. K., Poveda, C., Villar, M. J., Jones, K., Bottazzi, M. E., Hotez, P., Tijhaar, E., & Pollet, J. (2024). PLoS Pathogens, 20(12), e1012764. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012764 Trypanosoma cruzi is a protozoan parasite that causes Chagas disease. Globally 6 to 7 million […]

An immunophenotype-coupled transcriptomic atlas of human hematopoietic progenitors

Zhang, X., Song, B., Carlino, M. J., Li, G., Ferchen, K., Chen, M., Thompson, E. N., Kain, B. N., Schnell, D., Thakkar, K., Kouril, M., Jin, K., Hay, S. B., Sen, S., Bernardicius, D., Ma, S., Bennett, S. N., Croteau, J., Salvatori, O., . . . Grimes, H. L. (2024). Nature Immunology, 25(4), 703–715. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-024-01782-4 […]

Single cell view of tumor microenvironment gradients in pleural mesothelioma

Giotti, B., Dolasia, K., Zhao, W., Cai, P., Sweeney, R., Merritt, E., Kiner, E., Kim, G. S., Bhagwat, A., Nguyen, T., Hegde, S., Fitzgerald, B. G., Shroff, S., Dawson, T., Garcia-Barros, M., Abdul-Ghafar, J., Chen, R., Gnjatic, S., Soto, A., . . . Tsankov, A. M. (2024). Cancer Discovery, 14(11), 2262–2278. https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.cd-23-0017 Immunotherapies have shown […]

A novel mass cytometry protocol optimized for immunophenotyping of low-frequency antigen- specific T cells

Balz, K., Grange, M., Pegel, U., Karamya, Z. A., Mello, M., Zhou, X., Berger, T., Bloch, K., Dunham, D., Chinthrajah, S., Nadeau, K., Luche, H., & Skevaki, C. (2024b). Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2023.1336489 Understanding antigen-specific T-cell responses, for example, following virus infections or allergen exposure, is of high relevance for the […]

Disruption of SUV39H1-mediated H3K9 methylation sustains CAR T cell function

Jain, N., Zhao, Z., Koche, R. P., Antelope, C., Gozlan, Y., Montalbano, A., Brocks, D., Lopez, M., Dobrin, A., Shi, Y., Gunset, G., Giavridis, T., & Sadelain, M. (2023). Cancer Discovery, 14(1), 142–157. https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.cd-22-1319 Suboptimal functional persistence limits the efficacy of adoptive T cell therapies. CD28-based chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) impart potent effector function to […]