Single cell analysis
Single cell analysis is the study of genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics and metabolomics at the single cell level. Due to the heterogeneity of the different cell types, the analysis of a single cell enables the discovery of e.g. mechanisms and cell functions. This requires the separation of the individual cells. Single cell research can be used to study diseases and drug development. Potential areas of application are also in the therapeutic field, e.g. in cancer therapy to test drugs in advance on isolated cancer cells from the patient before they are treated with them.
Single cells under the microscope© https://pixabay.com/photos/microscope-sea-urchin-egg-splitting-1276131/
Regional experts:
European Institute for Molecular Imaging (EIMI), WWU Münster
- Multimodal molecular imaging; development of targeted imaging probes for molecular imaging of cardiovascular inflammation; apoptosis and automatic innervation; imaging in small animals; phenotyping of transgenic mouse models; clinical multimodal cardiovascular research; hybrid imaging
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Münster
The Sequencing Core Facility (Single Cell Mulit-Omics Laboratory) is providing Next-Generation Sequencing service and managing high-throughput single cell RNA-seq / Multi-Omics analysis.