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.
Technique may predict which therapies a patient is most sensitive or resistant to.
Doctors have many drugs available to treat multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. However, there is no way to predict, by genetic markers or other means, how a patient will respond to a particular drug. This can lead to months of treatment with a drug that isn’t working.
Focused laser beam could help scientists map connections amoung neurons that underlie behavior.
