title: Insightful tales from single embryonic cells.
abstract: Two studies by Guo et al. (2010) and Tang et al. (2010) use comprehensive and systematic single-cell RNA profiling to address pivotal questions in mouse embryonic biology: when initial asymmetries become apparent during development and how cells adapt to an in vitro environment to become embryonic stem cells.
authors.affiliation: Radboud University, Department of Molecular Biology, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Hendrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Marks
authors.forename: Gert Jan C
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Veenstra
authors.forename: Hendrik G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Stunnenberg