Stochastic profiling, a method to rank heterogeneity of gene expression in a cell population, shows that quantifying cell-to-cell variability has come of age and leads to biological insight.
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Quaranta, V., Garbett, S. Not all noise is waste. Nat Methods 7, 269–272 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0410-269
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