Abstract

Isolation and Capture of the Single Cell

Dan Lucking, , Molecular Machines & Industries (MMI)

Technology is making it easier and faster for researchers to identify single cells or other areas of interest from live cell cultures, tissue sections, and other types of samples and cell populations. We’ll walk through an introduction of two of these technologies, laser micro-dissection and an automated capillary based method. You’ll see how a researcher can get very particular about what cells he/she wants for downstream analysis and how to capture them with the click of a mouse. You’ll have the opportunity to see videos made using actual customer samples (tissue on slides and live cells in plates) to get a real sense of how individual cells of interest were collected and organized.