{"id":142240,"date":"2022-07-15T06:02:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T11:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/scientists-develop-new-method-and-device-to-isolate-single-cells-using-electric-fields"},"modified":"2022-07-15T06:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T11:02:40","slug":"scientists-develop-new-method-and-device-to-isolate-single-cells-using-electric-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/scientists-develop-new-method-and-device-to-isolate-single-cells-using-electric-fields","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop new method and device to isolate single cells using electric fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-new-method-and-device-to-isolate-single-cells-using-electric-fields2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In cancer research, it all comes down to a single cell.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last decade, cancer researchers have homed in on the fact that an individual cell from a tumor can be used to perform molecular analyses that reveal important clues about how the cancer developed, how it spreads and how it may be targeted.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, a team of researchers at Brown University has developed an advanced way to isolate single cells from complex tissues. In a study published in <i>Scientific Reports<\/i>, they show how the approach not only results in high-quality, intact single cells, but is also superior to standard isolation methods in terms of labor, cost and efficiency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In cancer research, it all comes down to a single cell. Over the last decade, cancer researchers have homed in on the fact that an individual cell from a tumor can be used to perform molecular analyses that reveal important clues about how the cancer developed, how it spreads and how it may be targeted. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}