Single Cell Manipulations and Measurement
Photo Credit: Alex Shalek and Jellert Gaublomme
Research in Single Cell Manipulations and Measurement at MIT focuses on innovations that enable precise definition of individual cell states, and techniques that span microfluidics, single cell transcriptomics, and super-resolution imaging.
Anders Sejr Hansen
Biological engineer Paul Blainey creates new tools to advance biomedical research
His technology platforms have benefited genomics, diagnostics and drug screening.
Microfluidics — the science of manipulating tiny amounts of fluid through channels — has been widely used in fields such as genomics, where it has helped to enable high-speed sequencing. Several years ago, Paul Blainey started to wonder why microfluidics was not used for drug screening, another application that requires analyzing huge amounts of samples quickly.
Elvira Kinzina
Christopher Rodriguez
Anders Sejr Hansen
Mapping the brain at high resolution
New 3-D imaging technique can reveal, much more quickly than other methods, how neurons connect throughout the brain.
Ankur Jain
Bryan Bryson
Muscle plays surprising role in tissue regeneration
Whitehead Institute researchers have pinpointed distinct muscle subsets that orchestrate and pattern regrowth.