The procedures described simplify the measurement of chemotaxis. Elimination of visual counting facilitates replication of the procedure and allows a larger number of samples to be tested in a short time.We had anticipated that counting all the cells crossing the membrane rather than a random sample of them would reduce the variance of the test readings. This did not prove to be the case, however; most of this variance seemed to be due to differences between the filters.
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