Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting (FACS)

Physically sorts individual cells into separate collection vessels in real time, based on the same fluorescence and scatter measurements flow cytometry makes as each cell passes the laser.

References

• Herzenberg, L.A., Tung, J., Parks, D.R., et al. "Cytometry: Today's Technology and Tomorrow's Horizons." Nature Immunology 7, no. 7 (2006): 681–685.