Compensation beads offer a variety of benefits. The most obvious of these is that they allow you to save more of your cells for your experimental conditions rather than controls. Additionally, compensation beads stain more brightly and uniformly than cells, allowing for easy compensation of colors that may be only on rare events in the cells sample. Importantly, compensation beads can be used with the same antibodies you use for your experiment ensuring a perfect fluorochrome match.
Updated 9/18/17
Compensation Beads
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