The production of antibodies by B cells is an important component of adaptive immunity. While antibodies often afford protection against pathogens such as viruses and bacteria, one class of antibodies, known as IgE, is involved in the pathogenesis of allergies ...
Read More »Takara Bio strengthens its IP position on single cell RNA-seq
Takara Bio USA, Inc has announce that patent JP6336080B—covering the Smart-seq2 method, developed by Rickard Sandberg and exclusively licensed to TBUSA by the Ludwig Institute—has...
Read More »Clontech Gains Access to Smart-seq2 Single-Cell RNA-Seq Technology
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Clontech Laboratories, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Takara Bio Inc., today announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with Ludwig Cancer Research for rights to the Smart-seq2 method for single-cell RNA-seq, ...
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 ...
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