Development of a Serial Dilution Technique for Obtaining Monoclonal Cell Populations

Abstract Single cell-based techniques have drawn the attention of researchers, because they provide invaluable information of various domains ranging from genomics to epigenetics, transcriptomics, and proteomics. Single cell-derived clones provide a reliable and sustainable source of genetic information due to the homogeneity of the cell population. Aiming to obtain single-cell clones, several approaches were engineered, among which, the Limiting dilution approach stands out as a cost-effective and unsophisticated, and easy-to-apply method. Here, we demonstrate how to acquire single cell-derived clones through a simple 1:10 diluting from genetically modified heterogeneous cell populations.