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High-throughput sequencing precisely and super-rapidly analyzes the biological contents of those microdroplets鈥攕uch as the genetic blueprints (genomes) and activity of millions of individual cells.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; font-family: Gotham-Book; color: rgb(128, 128, 128); font-size: 16px; line-height: 32px;">One ongoing effort at QBI in the <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/abatelab/home" target="_black" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(128, 128, 128);">Abate Lab</a> is to comprehensively characterize the antibody repertoires of people with autoimmune disorders, such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. This will be done by analyzing millions of their B cells to identify their antibody-generating genetic sequences and what the resulting antibodies bind to鈥攄ifferentiating between the sequences for antibodies that healthily bind to and help destroy pathogens versus those that errantly bind to and damage healthy tissues. 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