Any preferences in commercial kits for whole genome amplification (WGA) for CTCs (either enriched fractions or individual isolated cells)?

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Giulia Gallerani

Hi Therese,

we used Ampli1Whole Genome Amplification Kit, Silicon Biosystems, you can check our article "Detection and recovery of circulating colon cancer cells using a dielectrophoresis-based device: KRAS mutation status in pure CTCs" for additional informations.

Therese M Becker

Thanks for the answers, we will try this.

Giulia, is your KRAS CTC article as pdf on research gate?

Martin, good to "see" you here on research gate, how is the ALS Cellcelector work going?

Hi Terese,

yes I think it is on research gate, otherwise i can send you the article by email, no prob.