SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fluidigm Corporation(FLDM), an innovative biotechnology tools provider with a vision to improve life through comprehensive health insight, today announced that Fluidigm CyTOF technology was used in a clinical study producing preliminary evidence that mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy improves outcomes in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, providing key information about potential mechanisms of action of the treatment strategy. Results of the study, conducted by researchers in China, have been published in Aging and Disease.1 We used a 36-marker CyTOF panel to generate a broad immune profile of each patients peripheral blood before and after transplantation, said Wenjing Wang, PhD, Associate Professor at Beijing Hepatology Research Institute, Youan Hospital. Mass cytometry allowed us to look at all immune populations of interest in a single tube of peripheral blood mononuclear cells, enabling us to use less sample and to simplify our workflow and analysis
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