PCR—the workhorse of modern molecular biology—is charging forward using both conventional and digital methods to explore single cells and even single molecules. Nathan Blow reports.
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Blow, N. PCR's next frontier. Nat Methods 4, 869–875 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1007-869
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