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The electronic crystal ball: predicting cell fate from time-lapse data

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Prospective isolation of defined cell types is a crucial prerequisite for their molecular analysis, but the heterogeneity of populations yielded by current protocols obscures relevant information. New studies now use additional features from time-resolved imaging data for live prospective identification of cells with defined future behavior.

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Schroeder, T. The electronic crystal ball: predicting cell fate from time-lapse data. Nat Methods 7, 190–191 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0310-190

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