The human placenta is a dynamic and heterogeneous organ critical in the establishment of the fetomaternal interface and the maintenance of gestational well-being. It is also the major source of cell-free fetal nucleic acids in the maternal circulation. Placental dysfunction ...
Read More »Miniaturization of Low-Input RNA-Seq Sample Prep Using Microfluidics
Miniaturization and scale-down of reagent and reaction volumes for low-input RNA-Seq workflows enables researchers to work with low sample input and increased numbers of samples. As the reaction volumes are reduced, accurate delivery of reagent volumes emerges as a critical ...
Read More »A cost effective 5′ selective single cell transcriptome profiling approach with improved UMI design
Single cell RNA sequencing approaches are instrumental in studies of cell-to-cell variability. 5′ selective transcriptome profiling approaches allow simultaneous definition of the transcription start size and have advantages over 3′ selective approaches which just provide internal sequences close to the ...
Read More »Comparative analysis of single-cell RNA-sequencing methods
Single-cell mRNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) allows to profile heterogeneous cell populations, offering exciting possibilities to tackle a variety of biological and medical questions. A range of methods has been recently developed, making it necessary to systematically compare their sensitivity, accuracy, precision ...
Read More »Microfluidic single-cell whole-transcriptome sequencing
Single-cell whole-transcriptome analysis is a powerful tool for quantifying gene expression heterogeneity in populations of cells. Many techniques have, thus, been recently developed to perform transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) on individual cells. To probe subtle biological variation between samples with limiting ...
Read More »Microfluidic single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) on 198 individual cells
The mammalian lung is a highly branched network in which the distal regions of the bronchial tree transform during development into a densely packed honeycomb of alveolar air sacs that mediate gas exchange. Although this transformation has been studied by ...
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