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Single-cell approaches to immune profiling

Protein- and sequencing-based technologies are helping researchers to profile immune cells ever more deeply.
  1. Esther Landhuis

    1. Esther Landhuis is a freelance science journalist in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.

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The human immune system is a vast, decentralized army. With billions of specialized cells in constant motion, it’s incredibly difficult to work out which ones are doing what in any given place or situation. But advances in proteomics and genomics technologies are helping researchers to catalogue the various parts. It is a massive undertaking that is likely to produce 100 billion times more data than the Human Genome Project.

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Nature 557, 595-597 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05214-w

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