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ArticleCurrent opinion in chemical engineering2014

Towards Engineered Processes for Sequencing-Based Analysis of Single Circulating Tumor Cells.

Viktor A Adalsteinsson, J Christopher Love

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Article in Current opinion in chemical engineering, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Viktor A AdalsteinssonThe David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA ; Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA ; The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02412, USA.
J Christopher LoveThe David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA ; Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA ; The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02412, USA.

Funding

VIRUS PRODUCTION COREP30CA014051 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI MATTHEW G. VANDER HEIDEN · 1985 to 2026
$93.9M
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014051
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sequencing-based analysis of single circulating tumor cells (CTCs) has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of metastatic cancer and improve clinical care. Technologies exist to enrich, identify, recover, and sequence single cells, but to enable systematic routine analysis of single CTCs from a range of cancer patients, there is a need to establish processes that efficiently integrate these specific operations. Such engineered processes should address challenges associated with the yield and viability of enriched CTCs, the robust identification of candidate single CTCs with minimal degradation of DNA, the bias in whole-genome amplification, and the efficient handling of candidate single CTCs or their amplified DNA products. Advances in methods for single-cell analysis and nanoscale technologies suggest opportunities to overcome these challenges, and could create integrated platforms that perform several of the unit operations together. Ultimately, technologies should be selected or adapted for optimal performance and compatibility in an integrated process.

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cancer genomicsMicrofluidicssingle-cell sequencing

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PMID24839591
PMCPMC4019410

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