Origins of regulated cell-to-cell variability

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 119-125

  Snijder, Berend ^a,b   Pelkmans, Lucas ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CYTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78951470515     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3044     Document Type: Article

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