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Genetic screening enters the single-cell era

Four studies overcome the limitations of pooled and arrayed genetic screens by integrating single-cell transcriptomics.

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Figure 1: Massively parallel genetic screening using pooled CRISPR perturbations and scRNA-seq.

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A.M.K. is a founder and member of the SAB of 1Cell-Bio.

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Wagner, D., Klein, A. Genetic screening enters the single-cell era. Nat Methods 14, 237–238 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.4196

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