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Nature Chemistry (20 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/nchem.26

Metabolomics: One cell at a time

Neil Withers

Almost all methods used to analyse cells and their metabolites rely on measurements that are averaged over a large population. But even genetically identical cells can vary greatly in molecular content, so techniques that can analyse single cells could provide crucial information on many cell- and disease-related processes.