articleNatureAug 17, 2022HYBRID OA

Live-seq enables temporal transcriptomic recording of single cells

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics · Chinese Academy of Sciences · +4 more institutions

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Abstract Single-cell transcriptomics (scRNA-seq) has greatly advanced our ability to characterize cellular heterogeneity 1 . However, scRNA-seq requires lysing cells, which impedes further molecular or functional analyses on the same cells. Here, we established Live-seq, a single-cell transcriptome profiling approach that preserves cell viability during RNA extraction using fluidic force microscopy 2,3 , thus allowing to couple a cell’s ground-state transcriptome to its downstream molecular or phenotypic behaviour. To benchmark Live-seq, we used cell growth, functional responses and whole-cell transcriptome read-outs to demonstrate that Live-seq can accurately stratify diverse cell types and states without…

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