Utilize turn - key analysis pipelines and visualization tools for investigating variation within whole genome, exome and
single cell samples.
Not exact matches
Acquiring high - definition images of every cancer
cell found in a blood
sample, making characterization at
single -
cell resolution possible.
Zhang's group is moving beyond bulk sequencing of tumor
samples and is now conducting genomics on
single cells.
Using frozen
samples of Nannochloropsis oculata, a type of
single -
celled ocean - dwelling algae, Dina Pasini (University of Kent) set out to test the conditions which early life would have had to survive if it did indeed travel through space.
To more accurately reflect the mechanisms driving oligodendrogliomas, the researchers used RNA sequencing to study directly, on a
single -
cell level, gene expression in
samples from six early - stage human tumors.
Careful
sample handling is an essential requirement of many
single -
cell isolation strategies, a family of methods that has grown exponentially in recent years.
In a recent proof - of - concept experiment, Abate and his colleagues performed
single -
cell genomic sequencing on a
sample of seawater.
He also recommends performing standard bulk -
cell sequencing on a portion of the
sample, to provide a basis for comparison with the
single -
cell DNA data.
Barbara Hinney and her colleagues from the Institute for Parasitology at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, screened 298 faecal
samples taken from cats across Austria for
single -
cell intestinal parasites, so called enteric protozoa.
Tissue engineers have been unable to grow epidermis with the functional barrier needed for drug testing, and have been further limited in producing an in vitro (lab) model for large - scale drug screening by the number of
cells that can be grown from a
single skin biopsy
sample.
This family tree captures just a
sampling of
single -
cell and
single - nucleus RNA sequencing technologies that have burst onto the scene over the last eight years.
The limitation of ChIP - seq is that it can not deliver a conclusive picture of transcription factor binding in a
single cell because it
samples events in a population after the
cells have been exposed to various toxic chemicals.
The
single -
cell technique is better at detecting subtle mosaicism than usual DNA sequencing methods, which sequence many thousands or millions of
cells mixed together and read out an average for the
sample.
Researchers of KIT and the Center for Nanotechnology (CeNTech), Münster, have now developed a clinical method to reliably detect and isolate
single cancer
cells in blood
samples in cooperation with the University Hospital of Hamburg - Eppendorf (UKE).
Recently, technology had advanced to the point that scientists could analyze
single cells in those
samples.
«Our circulating tumor
cell device can release a tumor
cell captured from a blood
sample, enabling
single cell analysis,» says Liu.
The second high - impact / high - risk grant received will be used to explore a new technology to rapidly detect cancerous
cells inside a
single blood
sample.
Information obtained via
single -
cell sequencing from
cells sampled from each core indicate the likely location of a cancerous tumor (dotted lines encompassing cores 2, 3 and 6).
For the new study, described in the October 23rd issue of Nature Communications, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston collected tissue
samples containing normal
cells, ovarian cancers, metastases that had spread elsewhere, and small cancers found in the fallopian tubes, which included
single cell layers of cancer called «p53 signatures» and serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma, or STIC lesions.
Here they photographed organisms from deep - water
samples and used technology to sequence the genomes of these
single -
celled organisms.
The tail allows Stentor to attach itself to the bottom of the body of water, while the mouth
samples available food and selects what to eat, an exceptional ability in a
single celled organism.
The machine, called a continuous
cell concentration device, could make it possible to routinely analyze food or water
samples to screen for pathogens within a
single work shift at food processing plants.
They diluted the microbial
sample such that they could add a
single cell per culture well filled with their new media via a technique called dilution - to - extinction.
By seeding elements with an assortment of antibodies, the device could be set up to capture several different cancer
cells types using a
single blood
sample.
Searching for T
cells that had infiltrated the tumors, they collected as many as 50 T
cell samples from a
single tumor; next, the team tested each batch of T
cells against other tumor
samples from the same patient.
FANTOM5 has generated
single molecule CAGE profiles for 574 primary human
cell samples, each sequenced to a median depth of ~ 4 million mapped tags per
sample.
diSPIM technology enables rapid 3D imaging of
samples ranging from
single cells to small organisms over the course of hours to days.
«These extensions complement the MIxS suite of metadata standards by defining the key data elements pertinent for describing the
sampling and sequencing of
single -
cell genomes and genomes from metagenomes,» said GSC President and study co-author Lynn Schriml of the Institute of Genome Sciences at University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Currently, we are exploring several environmental
samples retrieved from allover the world - ranging from hydrothermal vents in Japan to hot springs in Yellowstone National Park and New Zealand — for the presence of novel archaeal (and bacterial) lineages using cultivation - independent approaches, such as metagenomics and
single cell genomics.
Cell Hashing, which enables
sample multiplexing, robust multiplet detection and super-loading of scRNA - seq platforms, allowing confident recovery of 4 times as many
single cells per experiment.
Since most data to date has been collected from post-mortem
samples, the preferential usage of a
single major isoform in living
cells may be even more prevalent than previously reported.
The program provides accurate, rapid genotyping and chimerism analysis; automatically identifies donor and recipient peaks in post-BMT
samples, calculates percent chimerism and quality metrics for
single donor or double donor cases, easily appends for longitudinal monitoring post-BMT, and has multi-lineage capabilities for chimerism analysis of T -
cells, B -
cells, and other
cell type populations.
For each
sample,
single HSCs were isolated and grown into colonies of homogenous
cells to obtain enough DNA for exome sequencing.
«If we can pinpoint which genes control the development of each neuron type, we can generate them in the petri dish from a
single sample of human skin
cells,» said Dr. Huang.
The result is a three - dimensional map of the elements» placement on a
sample smaller than a
single blood
cell.
(B) Shown is a representative plot of viability eFluor780 stained
samples (left) and the percentage of live
cells (mean ± SD, right) of a
single representative experiment, shown in Fig 1D of 3 independent experiments.
This allows for a one - step PCR reaction and pooling of amplicons from several different
samples and targets (generated with other LymphoTrack Assays for the Illumina ® MiSeq ® instrument, sold separately), onto one MiSeq ® flow
cell allowing for up to 24
samples per target to be analyzed in parallel in a
single run.
Each
sample tends to hold hundreds of thousands — or even millions — of
single -
celled organisms.
The Vijayanand lab has developed a number of genomics (transcriptomic,
single -
cell and epigenomic) and immunological assays to enable research with small numbers of
cells and small - volume clinical
samples.
In particular, this meeting will focus on addressing the technological challenges and opportunities presented by the Human
Cell Atlas in areas including large - scale single - cell RNA sequencing, spatially - resolved methods, single - cell proteomics, epigenomics, and sample handl
Cell Atlas in areas including large - scale
single -
cell RNA sequencing, spatially - resolved methods, single - cell proteomics, epigenomics, and sample handl
cell RNA sequencing, spatially - resolved methods,
single -
cell proteomics, epigenomics, and sample handl
cell proteomics, epigenomics, and
sample handling.
«
Sample multiplexing of peripheral immune populations for high throughput
single -
cell RNA - sequencing»
In particular, this meeting focused on addressing the technological challenges and opportunities presented by the Human
Cell Atlas in areas including large - scale single - cell RNA sequencing, spatially - resolved methods, single - cell proteomics, epigenomics, and sample handl
Cell Atlas in areas including large - scale
single -
cell RNA sequencing, spatially - resolved methods, single - cell proteomics, epigenomics, and sample handl
cell RNA sequencing, spatially - resolved methods,
single -
cell proteomics, epigenomics, and sample handl
cell proteomics, epigenomics, and
sample handling.
The
sample was scanned through the laser beam and each
cell was identified according to its fluorescence (Figure 8B), and was then exposed to a
single pair of laser pulses (Figure 8C).
The rapid test is based on a new plastic microfluidic chip where bacteria from a urine
sample are trapped and methods for analysing their growth at
single -
cell level.
By using a common
cell culture step, it is possible for the pathogens in a
sample to multiply before the test, which allows for detection of a
single original
cell.
We used a set of well - characterized DNA
samples, DNA mixes and
single cells to thoroughly control the study.
Furthermore, multiplexing capabilities are highly desirable to obtain comprehensive,
single -
cell - level co-expression information and to maximize the use of limited biopsied
sample material.
The probe contains Martian soil
samples from which British exobiologist Hugh Derry (Ariyon Bakare) is able to isolate a
single -
celled organism, which he aims to bring back to life.
The goal: create
samples of mutants of a
single -
celled green algae (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) which used one of two possible pathways preferentially.
The team isolated
single cells from the
samples and sequenced genomes (the complete set of inherited instructions for an organism) of 738.