title: Central Dogma Goes Digital.
abstract: In this issue of Molecular Cell, Tay and colleagues (Albayrak et al., 2016) describe a new technique to digitally quantify the numbers of protein and mRNA in the same mammalian cell, providing a new way to look at the central dogma of molecular biology.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology and Biological Engineering and Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
authors.forename: Yihan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.affiliation: Division of Biology and Biological Engineering and Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology, 1200 E. California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. Electronic address: melowitz@caltech.edu.
authors.forename: Michael B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Elowitz
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D051926:Basigin / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D059010:Single-Cell Analysis / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D012333:RNA, Messenger; D051926:Basigin