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          Single-cell RNA-seq could play a key role in personalized medicine by facilitating characterization of cells, pathways, and genes associated with human diseases such as cancer.

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            Seq-Well: A Portable, Low-Cost Platform for High-Throughput Single-Cell RNA-Seq of Low-Input Samples

            Single-cell RNA-Seq can precisely resolve cellular states but application to sparse samples is challenging. Here, we present Seq-Well, a portable, low-cost platform for massively-parallel single-cell RNA-Seq. Barcoded mRNA capture beads and single cells are sealed in an array of subnanoliter wells using a semi-permeable membrane, enabling efficient cell lysis and transcript capture. We characterize Seq-Well using species-mixing experiments and PBMCs, and profile thousands of primary human macrophages exposed to tuberculosis.
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              Precision oncology for acute myeloid leukemia using a knowledge bank approach

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                Journal
                Sci Transl Med
                Sci Transl Med
                STM
                Science Translational Medicine
                American Association for the Advancement of Science
                1946-6234
                1946-6242
                20 September 2017
                2017
                : 9
                : 408
                : eaan4730
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Institute for Medical Engineering & Science (IMES) and Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
                [2 ]Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
                [3 ]Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT, and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
                [4 ]The Centre for Personalised Medicine and Division of Pediatrics, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden
                Author notes
                [* ]Corresponding author. Email: shalek@ 123456mit.edu (A.K.S.); mikael.benson@ 123456liu.se (M.B.)
                Article
                STM-09-eaan4730
                10.1126/scitranslmed.aan4730
                5645080
                28931656
                436fa83c-e0dd-4ed7-888c-b73e0d02a297
                © 2017 The Authors, some rights reserved

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                : 18 April 2017
                : 25 August 2017
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                Cancer

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