[Microbial] Quanta or A40?

From: J.W.Veening <J.W.Veening@rug.nl>
Date: Wed Nov 22 2006 - 07:01:55 EST
Dear all,

Our group is interested in buying a flow cytometer and we 
have received 2 quotations. One for a Cell Lab Quanta SC 
and one for an Apogee A40-miniFCM.
We work on bacterial cells (2 x 0.8 microns) and in the 
future probably also on even smaller bacteria. One very 
important feature that we would like to have is accurately 
measuring cell size, so we don't have to do this manually 
using a microscope. Furthermore, we frequently use 
fluorescent protein reporters, so the flow should be able 
to work with this as well.
Basically my question is, which flow machine can you 
recommend?
The A40 machine claims to be specially built for measuring 
bacterial cells so should be superior to the Quanta in 
this respect. The quanta however comes with a laser and a 
lamp enabling multiple excitations.
Any comments from users would help in our decision!
Thanks in advance,

Jan-Willem Veening
Received on Wed Nov 22 12:18:00 2006

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