A Postdoc position is available in the Diaz laboratory, at UCSF. As part of our lab’s participation in an NIH BRAIN Initiative Award (http://www.braininitiative.nih.gov/nih-brain-awards.htm), and our role in the Brain Tumor Research Center (http://neurosurgery.ucsf.edu/index.php/research_BTRC.html), we will be single-cell sequencing over ...
Read More »Genentech First Early Access Partner for WaferGen Bio-systems Single Cell Genomics Technology
FREMONT, Calif., April 30, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:WGBS) announced today that the Company has signed a research collaboration with Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, to evaluate and apply WaferGen’s SmartChipTM platform in single cell ...
Read More »UCSF/Fluidigm Paper Proves Shallow Sequencing of Related Single Cells Sufficient to Harvest Meaningful Biological Information
New Method Decreases the Cost of Single-Cell Sequencing; Frees Up Resources to Analyze More Cells SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In a paper published in Nature Biotechnology this week, UC San Francisco and Fluidigm Corporation (NASDAQ:FLDM) scientists have demonstrated that shallow ...
Read More »Full-length RNA-seq from single cells using Smart-seq2
Emerging methods for the accurate quantification of gene expression in individual cells hold promise for revealing the extent, function and origins of cell-to-cell variability. Different high-throughput methods for single-cell RNA-seq have been introduced that vary in coverage, sensitivity and multiplexing ...
Read More »Nature Selects “Single-Cell Sequencing” as the 2013 Method of the Year
Fluidigm Technology Accelerates the Adoption and Impact of Single-Cell Sequencing SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 31, 2013 – Nature Publishing Group has selected single-cell sequencing as its Method of the Year for 2013 (www.nature.com/nmeth/index.html). The publication, in explaining its choice, ...
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