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Dimension reduction helps to visualize high-dimensional datasets. These tools should be used thoughtfully and with tuned parameters. Sometimes, these methods take a second thought.
Sometimes their queer identity is one that people set apart from their science identity. Others find unique ways to integrate multiple facets of their identity.
To those who seek transcriptomic information at high resolution, scale and throughput, single-cell RNA sequencing brings the data. Scientists share tips and future plans as they reflect on the method’s rise to stardom.
After having been largely neglected for more than a century, the tiny marine animal Trichoplax adhaerens is enjoying a revival and is now poised to become a mainstream model organism for the study of epithelial evolution, diversification and specialization.