Fabian Theis says he initially pursued single-cell biology partly because it offered high sample numbers, not primarily because he was interested in the biology itself.

“Maybe initially, if I'm really honest, not so much because it was like the bi-biology that I was interested in, but because we had high sample numbers purely for that, right? Because even early on it was sort of clear that the number of qPCRs at scale, but then of course transcriptomes was just getting really big.”