Cell Death Discovery January, 2023 by Marlene Geyer et al.
A microfluidic-based PDAC organoid system reveals the impact of hypoxia in response to treatment

This team from Mimetas created patient-derived pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) organoids-on-a-chip, under different oxygen pressure conditions. They evaluated gene expression changes with bulk RNA sequencing under low-oxygen conditions. Then, the team tested standard-of-care chemotherapeutics to analyze drug response in the organoids-on-a-chip. They found oxygen pressure conditions impacted the responses, so doctors may adjust therapy choice based on the PDAC’s oxygen pressure conditions.

Cell October, 2019 by Chloé S. Baron et al.
Cell Type Purification by Single-Cell Transcriptome-Trained Sorting

This paper presents GateID, a computational method that combines single-cell RNA sequencing with FACS index sorting. It uses only native cellular properties such as cell size, granularity, and mitochondrial content to purify cell types of choice, making a priori knowledge of cell type markers unneeded