Microfluidic techniques for high throughput single cell analysis

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 40, Issue , 2016, Pages 90-96

  Reece, Amy ^a   Xia, Bingzhao ^a   Jiang, Zhongliang ^a   Noren, Benjamin ^a   McBride, Ralph ^a   Oakey, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; MICROFLUIDICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

HIGH THROUGHPUT; MICROFLUIDIC CONTROL; MICROFLUIDIC TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR AMPLIFICATION; MULTIPHASE MICROFLUIDICS; SINGLE-CELL LEVEL; SINGLECELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

CELL ENGINEERING;

BIOMEDICINE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CELL ENCAPSULATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL LEVEL; CELL SCREENING; CELL SELECTION; CELL SUSPENSION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; HUMAN; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84979214514     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2016.02.015     Document Type: Review

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