July 23, 2012

NEW GENOMIC SEQUENCING METHOD ENABLES “SMARTER” ANAYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL CELLS




NEW GENOMIC SEQUENCING METHOD ENABLES “SMARTER” ANAYSIS OF INDIVIDUAL CELLS

Applications include studying single cells that form malignant tumors

July 22, 2012, New York, NY and Stockholm, Sweden – Only by viewing a Seurat painting at close range can you appreciate the hidden complexities of pointillism – small, distinct dots of pure color applied in patterns to form an image from a distance. Similarly, biologists and geneticists have long sought to analyze profiles of genes at the single cell level but technology limitations have only allowed a view from afar until now.

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