Single Cell Omics Applications
With the increasing precision, single-cell omics technology is expected to be one of the most powerful approaches in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. Creative Biolabs has developed a wide range of single cell omics platforms including genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics, metabolomics. We can provide our clients with single-cell services in a variety of fields including cancer, metabolism and neurological diseases, immunology, pharmacogenomics, personalized medicine, and reproductive health, etc.
Introduction to Single Cell Omics
In the past decade, some of the important advances in molecular biology have been achieved through genome-wide and whole-transcriptome sequencing studies in individual cells. With the advancement of cell separation and next-generation sequencing, researchers no longer need to analyze the average signal from multiple cells in a population but can study DNA, RNA, protein, and chromatin at single-cell level. Single-cell genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics studies have revealed differences in gene and protein expression even among cells that are genetically identical in the same tissue. At this stage, scientists have begun to combine multiple layers of information at single-cell resolution. These "multi-omics" techniques allow for a closer look at the variability between cells, more clearly identifying specific cells and their functions.
Fig.1 Single cell omics.
Applications of Single Cell Omics
We systematically characterize heterogeneity within tumors and the immune system using single cell analysis. We began with fluorescence-activated cell sorting analysis with surface markers and constructed the single cell library to detect genomic transcriptional profiles at single-cell level.
Single-cell RNA sequencing is of great significance for cancer immunotherapy research. The heterogeneity of expression in single cancer cells may be a factor limiting the therapeutic efficacy. Single-cell gene expression analysis can provide insights for prognostic markers and theoretical basis for combination immunotherapy.
Single cell sequencing has altered the ability to characterize circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and has been used to identify the metastatic potential of CTCs in cancer metastasis models to monitor abnormal signaling pathways for drug resistance prediction.
We reveal functional heterogeneity and its relationship to cancer genome evolution by identifying different subsets of malignant cells shared by multiple tumors, as well as the activation of glycosphingolipid metabolism and the functional characterization of related immune pathways. Also, we assist you with discovering the unexpected biological principles that lead to poor prognosis of this disease.
Single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) provides a window into the transcriptional environment in complex tissues. Large-scale single-cell transcriptomics is expected to find many rare cell subpopulations. We assigned a rarity score for each individual expression profile in the rare cell detection study.
We generate intensive data on the state and behavior of individual cells in a series of technical experiments, applicable to a variety of clinical samples from blood to mucosal tissue. It provides a new perspective for defining the basic state of individual cells of the immune system and its role in diseases and interventions.
scRNA-seq overcomes the problem of bulk DNA sequencing that is difficult to distinguish between the genomic data of malignant cells and normal tissues in the tumor microenvironment. It has an unprecedented resolution depicting the cancer cell and immune cells for a wide range of tumors including melanoma, glioblastoma, breast cancer, head and neck cancer, rectal cancer, liver cancer, kidney cancer, and lung cancer, etc.
Single-cell genomics and proteomics not only accurately characterize cell status but also provide insights for novel cell types and provide an amazing view of high-resolution state transitions. Based on these measurements, we can construct a complete interaction network of cells and a genomic-scale kinetic system.
As a full-service, fit-for-purpose single cell analysis CRO, Creative Biolabs is dedicated to providing comprehensive suite of single cell solutions to assist you with a wide range of applications. If you have any questions about our single cell services, please feel free to contact us to learn how we can be involved in your precision project.
