Any good silicone immersion one?

My guess is that you would be able to get away with an adjustable slit to tune the NA!

But does it have to be H-1B visa?

Thank you! 🤓

I’ve never had that privilege!

I really need a keyboard blocker like this!

Huge thanks to an incredible team who made this possible 🙌 especially Aleks for his great supervision and support.

We believe smFC brings single-molecule sensitivity to scalable cell analysis.
Excited to see how this impacts biology & medicine!
Read the full story here 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We applied smFC to triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells:
📊 Found 30% of cells express low-abundance c-kit.
🧬 This subpopulation was invisible to standard flow cytometry, but smFC revealed it.

With smFC we achieve:
✅ Digital precision down to ~2–3 molecules/cell
✅ 10–80× improved detection limits vs. conventional FC
✅ Quantification of membrane proteins in high throughput, single-cell detail

smFC combines:
🔬 High-NA oblique plane microscopy (OPM)
💧 Microfluidics
✨ Superbright, large Stokes shift dyes
→ enabling optical sectioning + photon efficiency needed for single-molecule detection in flowing cells.

Conventional flow cytometry is powerful but has a blind spot:
❌ It can’t detect proteins expressed at very low levels (<100–1000 molecules/cell).
That means many weak but biologically crucial signals are invisible.