# @life_and_sunshine on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-03-09T18:38:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Nat ☀️ (@life_and_sunshine) — https://gondola.cc/life_and_sunshine

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I can’t believe I’ve JUST had this realization 🤯 Like how did I not see the similarities before?! 🫣 It all just feels so incredibly obvious to me now 😂 And I can’t unsee it 👀 nor can I stop thinking about it 😅 So I thought I’d share my experience with you all to see whether you agree or not 😃
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I’m also very curious to see how many of you actually have experience with both techniques and can be fair judges of this statement 😅 They’re really two very different things! 👩‍🔬 Flow cytometry is a method of labeling cells with fluorescent antibodies to see which markers they express 🪩 whereas ICP-MS measures trace elements in samples 🧪 It can measure almost the entire periodic table 🤩
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Both are incredibly cool techniques that can tell you specific details about really small things 😍 Both techniques are fairly automated processes too 😊 Yet both techniques require you to NEVER leave the machine in case something goes terribly wrong and ruins your whole experiment 😭 Oh and both take foreeeeeever to finish running 🫠
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I feel like it’s a privilege but also a misfortune that I’ve been able to learn and perform both techniques in depth 😂🙈 I love techniques that generate really cool and potentially useful data 🤩 but whyyyyy must they always be so demanding?!?!? 😩
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#icpms #analyticalchemistry #cellbiology #flowcytometry #scientist

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flowcytometry, icpms, cellbiology, scientist, analyticalchemistry

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