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The next frontier for single-cell analysis

How single cells will inform the industry's next generation of therapies

August 9, 2019 12:05 AM UTC

With an explosion in scalability, single-cell analysis has begun to invade every aspect of drug development, with early benefits showing themselves in precision targeting. The field’s next challenge is to integrate a wider array of data types from each cell, which could unlock a trove of actionable insights beyond target discovery.

Instead of mashing up tissue containing a multitude of cell types, researchers are increasingly seeking a more surgical view of biology -- at the level of individual cells...