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Dissecting phenotypic transitions in metastatic disease via photoconversion-based isolation.
eLife - 23 Feb 2021
Sela Yogev, Li Jinyang, Kuri Paola, Merrell Allyson J, Li Ning, Lengner Chris, Rompolas Pantelis, Stanger Ben Z
Abstract excerpt
Cancer patients often harbor occult metastases, a potential source of relapse that is targetable only through systemic therapy. Studies of this occult fraction have been limited by a lack of tools with which to isolate discrete cells on spatial grounds. We developed PIC-IT, a photoconversion-based isolation technique allowing efficient recovery of cell clusters of any size - including single-metastatic cells -...
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