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Steven J Altschuler1, Lani F Wu

  • 1Department of Pharmacology, Green Center for Systems Biology, Simmons Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA. steven.altschuler@utsouthwestern.edu

Cell
|May 19, 2010
PubMed
まとめ

細胞の異質性を理解することは,個々の細胞の行動が集団の平均と異なる可能性があるため,非常に重要です. この研究は,細胞間多様性をいつ考慮すべきかを強調し,それらの分析方法を提供しています.

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