Designer 'swiss-army-knife' molecule captures RNA in single cells in their natural tissue environment
Sunday, January 12, 2014 - 13:00
in Biology & Nature
A multi-disciplinary team from the University of Pennsylvania have published in Nature Methods a first-of-its-kind way to isolate RNA from live cells in their natural tissue microenvironment without damaging nearby cells. This allows the researchers to analyze how cell-to-cell chemical connections influence individual cell function and overall protein production.