Antibodies 101: Reading a Flow Plot
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... passes through the machine’s lasers and gives off a signal read by the machine’s sensors. (Usually this...or unbound antibodies.) Each event read by the machine is plotted as a dot on an X,Y axis to generate ...variations in fluorescent signals, and how the machine reads/interprets the signals, the axis is instead...populations. This shape is called a ‘gate’; it tells the machine that everything inside the gate is one population...