Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Nanogrid single-nucleus RNA sequencing reveals phenotypic diversity in breast cancer

  • Ruli Gao,
  • Charissa Kim,
  • Emi Sei,
  • Theodoros Foukakis,
  • Nicola Crosetto,
  • Leong-Keat Chan,
  • Maithreyan Srinivasan,
  • Hong Zhang,
  • Funda Meric-Bernstam,
  • Nicholas Navin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00244-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Single cell RNA sequencing is a powerful tool for understanding cellular diversity but is limited by cost, throughput and sample preparation. Here the authors use nanogrid technology with integrated imaging to sequence thousands of cancer nuclei in parallel from fresh or frozen tissue.