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Understanding Cancer, One Cell at a Time

Dr. Ricardo Chinchilla coordinated the course on Single Cell transcriptomic analysis at the University of Costa Rica

Date Published
28 Aug 2025

RNA signals which portion of the information in a cell's DNA is used for what. It is knowledge of the most significant relevance for things like cancer research, in which we try to understand what makes the tumor cell different from a normal cell and why the shift occurs.

Thanks to high-throughput sequencing technologies, extracting the transcriptome of a single cell, which is the sequenced RNA molecules that exist in it at a determinate time, is now possible.

During July, the course Central American Course in Single-Cell Analysis taught young professionals to perform this kind of study to further the adoption of revolutionary transcriptomic analysis into Latin American laboratories.

We are grateful to Dr. and his team for successfully coordinating the course hosted by the at the .

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