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Naomi Habib and Yinqing Li, researchers from the labs of ӳý core institute members Aviv Regev and Feng Zhang, report on a new contribution to the single-cell analysis toolkit. Their method combines the sequencing of RNA from isolated nuclei (sNuc-Seq), and tagging of regenerating cells (Div-Seq), to enable the study of previously intractable and rare cell types in the brain.

If you walked into a cancer clinic ten years ago as a newly diagnosed patient, you’d likely get “standard of care” treatment based on the location of the cancer in your body and its stage. Make that same visit today and your physician may instead begin with a close look at your tumor’s DNA.