from Flow Cytometry to Cytomics

This issue of Cytometry contains three reviews that further celebrate the longstanding, intense, and happy marriage between Cytometry and Immunology, as highlighted recently during the XV International Congress of Immunology, held in Milan, Italy, August 22–27, 2013. Scanning the scientific contributions of the Conference reveals that cytometric technology was used in the vast majority of abstracts and presentations. In other words, very few scientists did not switch on one or more lasers! It is obvious, that nowadays very few studies in the field of Immunology are possible without techniques based upon single cell analysis.