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    Research interest is growing in profiling noncoding RNAs and understanding their biological functions in health and disease contexts.

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    The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

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    The Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium has generated the first complete human genome.

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    Recent technological progress has facilitated the study of how embryos develop, how embryonic cells transition between different states, how adult stem cells are maintained and differentiate, at unprecedented resolution.

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    The COVID-19 pandemic has been marked by speedy scientific progress boosted by decades of methods development for basic biological research.

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    Genome Engineering has great potential to change how we model, understand, and treat diseases.

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    Protein structure prediction is our Method of the Year 2021, for the remarkable levels of accuracy achieved by deep learning-based methods in predicting the 3D structures of proteins and protein complexes, essentially solving this long-standing challenge.

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    This Focus issue features a series of papers offering guidelines and tools for improving the tracking and reporting of microscopy metadata with an emphasis on reproducibility and data re-use.

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    Four years ago, the NIH’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) was launched, aiming to identify and catalog the diverse cells types in human, monkey and mouse brain.

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    Machine learning-based approaches are being increasingly applied in life sciences research. This series of articles propose community reporting standards, intended to help improve the reproducibility and useability of machine learning-based analyses.

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    In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Protein Data Bank, Nature Methods and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology present a collection that brings together reviews, classic papers, announcements and specially commissioned Comments by researchers from diverse areas of structural biology who share their views on both the past and future of the field.

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    Spatially resolved transcriptomics is our Method of the Year 2020, for its ability to provide valuable insights into the biology of cells and tissues while retaining information about spatial context.

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