Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Broad Institute, Inc.

Harvard College

Dana-farber-cancer Institute Inc.

Liyi Xu

Paul Blainey

Asaf Rotem

Kevin Struhl

A method for detecting oncogenic growth and viability, and/or degree of cellular transformation and/or identifying an agent that inhibits cellular transformation is disclosed. The method including: providing a cellular sample, such as a sample of cells obtained from a subject or a cell line; culturing the cellular sample in low attachment conditions; and detecting growth and7or cell viability of the sample, wherein increased growth relative and/or viability relative to a control or control level indicative of basal growth and/or viability indicates cellular transformation. In some embodiments, the method includes introducing a n expression vector into cells of the cellular sample, wherein the expression vector comprises a gene product expression sequence being tested for transformation ability. In some embodiments the cellular sample is contacted with a test agent and growth and/or cell viability of the sample is determined to determine if the agent inhibits transformation.

High-throughput drug and genetic assays for cellular transformation

The present invention relates to methods of quantifying, amplifying, or preparing nucleic acid molecules, where the methods involve contacting a sample to be tested with nucleic acid molecule amplification reaction components and a label to form a reaction sample. The methods further involve partitioning the reaction sample into droplets or a gel and allowing nucleic acid molecule amplification to occur.

Methods for quantitating DNA using digital multiple displacement amplification

The present invention relates to methods of quantifying nucleic acids involving (a) contacting a sample to be tested with whole-genome amplification (WGA) reaction components and a dye molecule to form a reaction sample, wherein the dye molecule detects the nucleic acid; (b) partitioning the reaction sample wherein each partitioned reaction sample corresponds to a single reaction; (c) allowing the reaction to occur in the partitioned reaction sample and (d) determining the number of partitioned reaction samples having the dye molecule, wherein the dye molecule indicates the presence of the nucleic acid; thereby quantifying the nucleic acid in the sample to be tested.

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Liyi Xu