A New Device for Counting White Blood Cells (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

A New Device for Counting White Blood Cells

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A blood sample treated with a new dye assay flows through a microfluidic channel (lower left). The sample's fluorescence enables a count of the four major subtypes of white blood cells (upper right) within the blood.

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Wendian Shi/Caltech

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