Recent developments in single-cell analysis

Cells play a significant role in life activities such as metabolism and signal transduction and so on. The development of cellular research puts forward a severe challenge to analyst, and the study of single-cell has already become the focus of the frontiers in analytical chemistry. Combining capillary electrophoresis (CE) with detection methods such as laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) and electrochemical detection (ED), and mass spectrometry (MS) have particular description for single-cell analysis. Due to extensive research on objects and complex characteristic in the single-cell, scientists have developed more methods and technologies for application in single-cell analysis. Here we reviewed the current approach of technologies of single-cell analysis in manipulation, injection and lysis of single-cell, capillary electrophoresis, imaging analysis, temporal and spatial monitoring on dynamics of singlecells, and the application.