Scaling by shrinking: Empowering single-cell 'omics' with microfluidic devices

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 345-361

  Prakadan, Sanjay M ^a,b,c   Shalek, Alex K ^a,b,c   Weitz, David A ^d  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEOME; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; COST CONTROL; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MICROFLUIDIC ANALYSIS; MICROFLUIDICS; NANOWELL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; REVIEW; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; VALVE; VIRUS LOAD; ANIMAL; ECONOMICS; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICROFLUIDICS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85017139529     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2017.15     Document Type: Review

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