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  • A novel bright near-infrared fluorescent protein inserted into a nanobody enables visualization of native proteins inside living cells and specific manipulation of cell function, including Boolean protein-based operators.

    • Theodorus W. J. Gadella
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  • DiMeLo-seq leverages immunotethered DNA methyltransferases with long-read sequencing to map the locations of chromatin proteins in their natural context.

    • Kami Ahmad
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  • A novel approach to probabilistically align adjacent multiple tissue slices from spatially resolved transcriptomics data provides unprecedented depth for the investigation of tissue architecture and paves the way for new developments in 3D spatial analytics.

    • Yingxin Lin
    • Jean Y. H. Yang
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  • A flexible open-top light-sheet microscope has been developed that can perform deep three-dimensional imaging on all clearing protocols with low and high optical resolution.

    • Shigeaki Kanatani
    • Per Uhlén
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  • Two new toolkits that leverage deep-learning approaches can track the positions of multiple animals and estimate poses in different experimental paradigms.

    • Sena Agezo
    • Gordon J. Berman
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  • A droplet microfluidic system enables deterministic capture and subsequent sequencing and analysis of single-cell transcriptomes from organoids and other small, individual tissue samples.

    • J. Gray Camp
    • Ilya Lukonin
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  • As last we can edit the immune system’s sleeping giants, as CRISPR tools advance into the world of naive CD4+ T cells.

    • Andrea Olga Papadopoulos
    • Zaza Mtine Ndhlovu
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  • Software solutions pGlyco3 and StrucGP both aim to better assign the glycan part of a glycopeptide beyond simple glycosyl composition, but they differ in their strategies, their requirement for a glycan library and their applicability to O-glycopeptides.

    • Kay-Hooi Khoo
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  • The MISpheroID knowledgebase records and organizes experimental parameters from thousands of cancer spheroid experiments, revealing heterogeneity and a lack of transparency in key spheroid research reporting practices.

    • Timothy L. Downing
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  • Technological innovations in optical object recognition and high-throughput ultrasensitive mass spectrometry are enabling subcellular metabolomics and peptidomics, providing unprecedented opportunities to study small-molecule mediators of cellular function with important implications in health and disease.

    • Peter Nemes
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  • Dynamic mass photometry, a method based on optical imaging of unlabeled proteins, enables direct observation and tracking of single-protein interactions on lipid membranes.

    • Milan Vala
    • Marek Piliarik
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  • A gene sequence-to-expression machine learning model achieves improved accuracy by incorporating information about potential long-range interactions.

    • Yang Young Lu
    • William Stafford Noble
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