Template:Did you know nominations/White blood cell differential
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:03, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
Promoted by User:TheAwesomeHwyh
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White blood cell differential
- ... that technology developed for use in inkjet printers helped make the automated white blood cell differential, a common blood test, possible?
Melamed, 2001: "A sorter described by Mack Fulwyler (1965) could separate single cells from the cell stream by electrostatic deflection as they emerged from a Coulter cell sizing nozzle. It was based on an earlier invention of a printing method by Sweet (1965) in which ink jet droplets were deflected electrostatically."
Hughes-Jones et al., 1974: "Polymorphonuclear neutrophils have approximately twice the cellular volume of lymphocytes and the two populations can be differentiated by pulse-height analysis of the output from a Coulter particle counter (Van Dilla, Fulwyler, and Boone, 1967). It has been suggested that this method of analysis could be used for carrying out differential white cell counts (Gauthier and Harel, 1967; Oberjat, Zucker, and Cassen, 1970), and it has been possible to obtain a good correlation between the results of differential counts obtained by examination of stained blood films and those obtained by volume analysis in normal people and in selected patients."
- Reviewed: This is my 3rd nomination, so QPQ is not required.
Moved to mainspace by SpicyMilkBoy (talk). Self-nominated at 12:42, 24 July 2019 (UTC).
Excellent article, easy to follow and reads very well. Where it appears technical, the links solve it. Hook is in the article followed by inline citations. I double checked with other sources and all checks out. No QPQ required, copyvio <10%, moved to mainspace from draft on 24 July and definitely long enough. I am in envy of your work and I learnt so much. thank you. Whispyhistory (talk) 12:25, 2 August 2019 (UTC)
I find the hook a little long and clumsy and I'm wondering if it would be better to change it to
... that technology developed for use in inkjet printers helped make a common blood test possible?
Please let me know what you think. Thanks, SpicyMilkBoy (talk) 13:59, 9 August 2019 (UTC)