Takara Bio Europe Shasta Single-Cell System

Takara Bio Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Takara Bio, has launched the Shasta Single-Cell Next-Generation Sequencing System. According to Takara, the Shasta platform and Shasta Whole-Genome Amplification Kit increase the throughput for single-cell analysis by processing up to 1,500 cells per run and can detect single-cell level CNV events via shallow sequencing. Meanwhile, the Shasta Total RNA-Seq Kit can offer full gene body coverage of up to 100,000 cells per run, and is capable of detecting RNA biotypes, such as non-polyadenylated lncRNAs.