Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

High-throughput RNA sequencing of paraformaldehyde-fixed single cells

  • Hoang Van Phan,
  • Michiel van Gent,
  • Nir Drayman,
  • Anindita Basu,
  • Michaela U. Gack,
  • Savaş Tay

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25871-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Current high-throughput single-cell transcriptomic methods are incompatible with paraformaldehyde, a common cell fixation technique. Here the authors present FD-seq, a method for droplet-based RNA sequencing of paraformaldehyde-fixed, stained and sorted single cells.