Even
more notable, Loki has genes that code for proteins involved in
phagocytosis, the process by which one cell can swallow another — and widely believed to be the way eukaryotes acquired mitochondria, a cell's power source.
Flow cytometry is an evolving field with a wide range of applications that includes immunophenotyping, cell division and apoptosis, cell activation, intracellular pH shifts,
phagocytosis, oxidative burst and much
more.