What's Luck Got to Do with It: Single Cells, Multiple Fates, and Biological Nondeterminism

Molecular Cell

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 788-802

  Symmons, Orsolya ^a   Raj, Arjun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL FUNCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DNA; PROTEIN; RNA;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; PROTEINS; RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84971422280     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.05.023     Document Type: Review

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