Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

A microfluidic platform enabling single-cell RNA-seq of multigenerational lineages

  • Robert J. Kimmerling,
  • Gregory Lee Szeto,
  • Jennifer W. Li,
  • Alex S. Genshaft,
  • Samuel W. Kazer,
  • Kristofor R. Payer,
  • Jacob de Riba Borrajo,
  • Paul C. Blainey,
  • Darrell J. Irvine,
  • Alex K. Shalek,
  • Scott R. Manalis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10220
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Existing single-cell RNA-seq methods provide the transcriptome of a cellular phenotype at a single time point. Here, Kimmerlinget al. present a microfluidic platform that enables off-chip single-cell RNA-seq after multigenerational lineage tracking under controlled culture conditions.