Single-cell analysis tools for drug discovery and development

JR Heath, A Ribas, PS Mischel - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2016 - nature.com
The genetic, functional or compositional heterogeneity of healthy and diseased tissues
presents major challenges in drug discovery and development. Such heterogeneity hinders …

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

SM Prakadan, AK Shalek, DA Weitz - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
Recent advances in cellular profiling have demonstrated substantial heterogeneity in the
behaviour of cells once deemed'identical', challenging fundamental notions of …

Seq-Well: portable, low-cost RNA sequencing of single cells at high throughput

TM Gierahn, MH Wadsworth, TK Hughes, BD Bryson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA-seq can precisely resolve cellular states, but applying this method to low-
input samples is challenging. Here, we present Seq-Well, a portable, low-cost platform for …

Single-cell technologies for monitoring immune systems

PK Chattopadhyay, TM Gierahn, M Roederer… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The complex heterogeneity of cells, and their interconnectedness with each other, are major
challenges to identifying clinically relevant measurements that reflect the state and capability …

Functional TCR T cell screening using single-cell droplet microfluidics

AI Segaliny, G Li, L Kong, C Ren, X Chen, JK Wang… - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Adoptive T cell transfer, in particular TCR T cell therapy, holds great promise for cancer
immunotherapy with encouraging clinical results. However, finding the right TCR T cell clone …

Classification of human natural killer cells based on migration behavior and cytotoxic response

B Vanherberghen, PE Olofsson… - Blood, The Journal …, 2013 - ashpublications.org
Despite intense scrutiny of the molecular interactions between natural killer (NK) and target
cells, few studies have been devoted to dissection of the basic functional heterogeneity in …

Single-cell multiplexed cytokine profiling of CD19 CAR-T cells reveals a diverse landscape of polyfunctional antigen-specific response

Q Xue, E Bettini, P Paczkowski, C Ng, A Kaiser… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2017 - Springer
Background It remains challenging to characterize the functional attributes of chimeric
antigen receptor (CAR)-engineered T cell product targeting CD19 related to potency and …

Evaluation of single-cell cytokine secretion and cell-cell interactions with a hierarchical loading microwell chip

Y Zhou, N Shao, RB de Castro, P Zhang, Y Ma, X Liu… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Comprehensive evaluation of single T cell functions such as cytokine secretion and cytolysis
of target cells is greatly needed in adoptive cell therapy (ACT) but has never been fully …

Advancing single-cell proteomics and metabolomics with microfluidic technologies

Y Liu, X Chen, Y Zhang, J Liu - Analyst, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent advances in single-cell analysis have unraveled substantial heterogeneity among
seemingly identical cells at genomic and transcriptomic levels. These discoveries have …

Antibody Fc engineering improves frequency and promotes kinetic boosting of serial killing mediated by NK cells

G Romain, V Senyukov… - Blood, The Journal …, 2014 - ashpublications.org
The efficacy of most therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting tumor antigens
results primarily from their ability to elicit potent cytotoxicity through effector-mediated …