Papers from the literature selected by the Nature Biotechnology editors (follow us on Twitter, @NatureBiotech #nbtHighlight)

Polymer multilayer tattooing for enhanced DNA vaccination

DeMuth, P.C. et al. Nat. Materials doi:10.1038/nmat3550 (27 January 2013)

Genome-wide quantitative enhancer activity maps identified by STARR-seq

Arnold, C.D. et al. Science doi:10.1126/science.1232542 (17 January 2013)

Detection of histone modifications at specific gene loci in single cells in histological sections

Gomez, D. et al. Nat. Methods 10, 171–177 (2013)

Evaluation of DNA from the Papanicolaou test to detect ovarian and endometrial cancers

Kinde, I. et al. Sci. Transl. Med. 5, 167ra4 (2013)

rsEGFP2 enables fast RESOLFT nanoscopy of living cells

Grotjohann, T. et al. eLife 1, e00248 (2012)