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Seven technologies to watch in 2022

Our fifth annual round-up of the tools that look set to shake up science this year.
  1. Michael Eisenstein

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From gene editing to protein-structure determination to quantum computing, here are seven technologies that are likely to have an impact on science in the year ahead.

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Nature 601, 658-661 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00163-x

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