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 ## Publication
 pending:  
-*Lamanna, J.*,*Scott, E.Y.*, *Edwards, H.*, Chamberlain, M.D., Dryden, M.D.M., Peng, J., Mair, B., Lee, A., Sklavounos, A.A., Abbas, F., Moffat, J. & A.R. Wheeler. "Digital Microfluidic Isolation of Single Cells for - Omics" 2020.  
-  *Lamanna, J.,Scott, E.Y., Edwards, H. are Co-first authors*
+*lt Lamanna, J.,*lt Scott, E.Y., *lt Edwards, H., Chamberlain, M.D., Dryden, M.D.M., Peng, J., Mair, B., Lee, A., Sklavounos, A.A., Abbas, F., Moffat, J. & A.R. Wheeler. "Digital Microfluidic Isolation of Single Cells for - Omics" 2020.  
+  *lt Co-first authors
 
 ### Authors of scripts
 Erica Y. Scott: Scripts 1-5 and Figure scripts 1-7