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In-Gel 'Virtual Microfluidics' Method Promises Alternative for Single-Cell Analysis

Oct 18, 2016
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Madeleine Johnson
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Scientists at MIT and the Broad Institute have developed an inexpensive "virtual microfluidics" method to compartmentalize samples for amplification reactions that could be applied to single-cell sequencing and digital PCR.

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