Recently, a breakthrough has been made in single cell proteomics by CPMMR in collaboration with Prof. Qun Fang’s team from Zhejiang University. The results have been published as a research article on Analytical Chemistry (Impact factor: 6.32). The title of the paper is “Nanoliter-Scale Oil-Air-Droplet Chip-Based Single Cell Proteomic Analysis”. Our research has successfully opened up a new technology in mass spectrometry-based proteomic research of single cell and other micro samples. With a highly reliable system structure which is easy to build and operate, the technology is promisingly to be widely used in the study of intercellular heterogeneity, as well as some clinical research, such as rare circulating cancer cell analysis, germ cell-related research and disease diagnosis. Therefore, it may have a great prospect of sustainable development and application in the future.

(Link: https://pubs.acs.org.ccindex.cn/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.analchem.8b00661)