New Frontiers In Single Cell Analysis

Since the advent of proteomics in the 1970-1980s and genomics in the 1990s, these disciplines have developed in ways that emphasize the rate and volume of data acquisition and analysis. They have, by necessity, worked on large populations of cells and thereby reported on population averages rather than their distributions, missed rare (but important) events and been unable to analyse cells that are only produced in small numbers.

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Filed under: Biology on July 31st, 2008