Affiliation:
1. University of York, York, United Kingdom
Abstract
One of the most challenging aspects of stem cell research is the reliance on retrospective assays for ascribing function. This is especially problematic for hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) research where the current functional assay that formally establishes its HSC identity involves long term serial transplantation assays that necessitate the destruction of the initial cell state many months prior to knowing that it was in fact an HSC. In combination with the explosion of equally destructive single cell molecular assays, the paradox facing researchers is how to determine the molecular state of a functional HSC when you cannot concomitantly assess its functional and molecular properties. In this review, we will give a historical overview of the functional and molecular assays in the field, identify new tools that combine molecular and functional readouts in populations of HSCs, and imagine the next generation of computational and molecular profiling tools that may help us better link cell function with molecular state.
Publisher
American Society of Hematology
Subject
Cell Biology,Hematology,Immunology,Biochemistry
Cited by
4 articles.
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