
Milo™ is the world’s first Single-Cell Western platform. He measures protein expression in thousands of single cells in a single run so you can profile heterogeneity in your samples. Just load your cell suspension and the scWest chip captures ~1,000 single-cells. Milo then does a fast, 1 minute SDS-PAGE separation on each single-cell lysate on-chip. Then just probe with your favorite conventional Western antibodies to measure up to 4 proteins per cell simultaneously. Use Single-Cell Westerns to unlock the single-cell proteome and measure more of the proteome than is possible with any other single-cell technique.
Milo measures protein expression in ~1,000 single-cells in one 4 hour experiment so you can quantify expression heterogeneity of your target and the percentage of cells in your sample that are target positive.
Requirements & compatibility
| Sample type | Suspension containing >10,000 cells |
| Cell diameter | 7-25 µm |
| Cell type | Mammalian cells; globular in suspension and unfixed |
| Antibody requirement | Standard, commercial unlabeled primaries and fluorescent secondaries |
| Other equipment needed | Open-format fluorescence microarray scanner capable of 10 µm resolution |
Performance & specifications
| Typical cell dilutions | Yield capture and analysis of 1,000-2,000 cells per scWest chip |
| Molecular weight (MW) range | 15-175 kDa |
| MW resolution | 10% differences in distinct spectral channels, as low as 30% differences in same spectral channel |
| Typical target multiplexing | Up to four proteins per cell by spectral and size-based multiplexing |
| Workflow time | 4-6 hours |