Advances in single-cell RNA sequencing and its applications in cancer research

Oncotarget

Volumn 8, Issue 32, 2017, Pages 53763-53779

  Zhu, Sibo ^a,b   Qing, Tao ^a,b   Zheng, Yuanting ^a,b   Jin, Li ^a,b   Shi, Leming ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Circulating tumor cell; RNA sequencing; Single cell; Tumor

Indexed keywords

EID: 85031730628     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.17893     Document Type: Review

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