Nanopipetting Single Cells
September 13, 2022 | Terry Sharrer
An engineer at UC-Santa Cruz’s Genomic Institute has won NIH’s “Follow the Cell Challenge” with its $300,000 prize. As described: “The nanopipette platform is based on a small glass tube that tapers to a fine tip with a diameter less than 100 nanometers (for comparison, a red blood cell is about 7,000 nanometers across). The nanopipette can extract material from inside a cell without disrupting it, allowing researchers to take repeated samples. The samples can be analyzed in a variety of ways to monitor, for example, changes in gene expression that occur in response to experimental treatments. A cell’s metabolic state can be monitored by measuring glucose concentrations and pH (acidity).” MORE
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