Scaling single-cell genomics from phenomenology to mechanism

Three of the most fundamental questions in biology are how individual cells differentiate to form tissues, how tissues function in a coordinated and flexible fashion and which gene regulatory mechanisms support these processes. Single-cell genomics is opening up new ways to tackle these questions by...

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Main Authors: Tanay, Amos (Author), Regev, Aviv (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology (Contributor), Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2018-07-05T18:28:28Z.
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