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Flow cytometry

Recorded year1968

Lasers count and sort thousands of cells per second.

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Built on

TransistorRecorded · 1947requires
LaserRecorded · 1960enables

Led to

Single-cell sequencingRecorded · 2009enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.