Nobody asked about FSC-A. It was a code she'd inherited with a metal trunk from a facility that shut down years ago. The file inside was a dry inventory: "FSC-A: Item set — product lineage unknown." Everything else had been stripped clean: machines taken for parts, paperwork pulped, printers carried out by men who never spoke more than necessary. Mara had the trunk and the code and the stubborn conviction that names meant something, that a label could root an entire history.
Here’s a concise write-up on (Flow Cytometry—Forward Scatter Area), suitable for a lab report, protocol summary, or educational post. Nobody asked about FSC-A