Single cell isolation and analysis

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2016, Pages

  Hu, Ping ^a   Zhang, Wenhua ^a   Xin, Hongbo ^a   Deng, Glenn ^a,b,c  

^a NANCHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA THREE GORGES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis; Heterogeneity; Isolation; Sequencing; Single cell

Indexed keywords

EID: 85013890873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2016.00116     Document Type: Review

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