OMICS TECHNOLOGIES Immunophenotyping: Flow Cytofluorometry Flow cytofluorometry (FCFM), a method of measuring and analyzing light emissions that interact with particles flowing in a liquid stream, has an enormous number of applications in life science. The technique is based on using three types of laser light: (i) forward scattered light, (ii) orthogonal scattered at 90° light, and (iii) dye-specific fluorescence light. Cells pass through laser light by a single cell in the flow of a droplet. The light scatter is commonly exploited to exclude dead cells, cell aggregates, and cell debris from fluorescence data. It is also used to assess any granularity and cell size, and distinguish lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes from each other in blood leukocyte samples. The fluorescence light is often employed to report the densities of specific surface receptors on cells, distinguish subpopulations of differentiated cell types, and assess the intracellular components of cells including total DNA, specific nucleotide sequences in DNA or mRNA, newly synthesized cytokines, and the quantities of other specific components of the cells. ©V.V.Klimov