MIC-Drop-seq: scalable single-cell phenotyping of mutant vertebrate embryos (opens in new tab)

Pooled perturbation screens can reveal cellular regulatory networks, yet scaling these techniques for large-scale screens in animals remains challenging. Here we present MIC-Drop-seq, a technique that addresses these challenges by combining high-throughput CRISPR gene disruption in zebrafish embryos with phenotyping by multiplexed single-cell RNAseq. In one MIC-Drop-seq experiment, we simultaneously identified changes in gene expression and cell abundance across 74 cell types resulting from l...