A new toolbox for assessing single cells

Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages 455-477

  Tsioris, Konstantinos ^a,b   Torres, Alexis J ^a,b   Douce, Thomas B ^a,b   Love, J Christopher ^a,b,c,d  

^a Department of Chemical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cell interaction; Genomics; Microenvironment; Proteomics; Single cell analysis; Soluble factors; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

CELL-CELL INTERACTION; GENOMICS; MICROENVIRONMENTS; PROTEOMICS; SINGLECELL ANALYSIS; SOLUBLE FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

CELLS;

CELL-CELL INTERACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROENVIRONMENT; PROTEOMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SOLUBLE FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

CELL-CELL INTERACTION; GENOMICS; MICROENVIRONMENT; PROTEOMICS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SOLUBLE FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PROTEOMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84945259685     PISSN: 19475438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-060713-035958     Document Type: Review

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