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As new technology enables researchers to find and characterize less-common post-translational modifications that drive gene expression and cellular metabolism, the movement to catalog the entire human proteome gains momentum

Expeditions are delivering data wealth about our planet’s oceans, including its microbes. Some labs are now diving deep into the ocean virome.

Even without a stint on an ocean-faring vessel, scientists can trawl through data to explore marine viruses and address new puzzles and cultural shifts.

Cameras are a crucial part of microscopes and are also built into many kinds of instruments. To make their output comparable takes standards.

Imaging and microscopy technology advances in leaps and bounds. To address accumulated pain points, academics and companies are making headway on standards.

Widespread adoption of new embryo models hinges on how faithfully they mirror real embryos.

Securing biodiversity takes many measures, including the involvement of Indigenous peoples.

Against the backdrop of its many battles with infectious disease, the Global South applies networking and creative grit to face COVID-19.

Labs are stacking techniques to disentangle the chemical influences of microbiomes.

Labs reaping information from single cells balance desirables with headaches such as data sparsity, cost and protocol surprises.

Nature Methods has named protein structure prediction the Method of the Year 2021.

An array of new techniques allow researchers to catalog the chemical contents of a single cell, or even a single organelle.

The proliferation of versatile open software and hardware for microscopy is helping to democratize biological imaging for both current and aspiring scientists.

To study the neural complexities of animals moving though physical and social space, labs increasingly turn to wireless technology.

Proteins and sugars interact in sweet, complex ways. More tools are emerging, but working in this field still takes endurance.

New ways to assess plant–microbe interactions can yield unexpected paths to biodiversity.

Quantum computing promises plenty, such as how it can massively accelerate some bioinformatics calculations.

There’s an evolving choice of ways to track the temporal dynamic of RNA biographies.

With grit, urgency and creativity, scientists address the puzzle of long-haul COVID.

Immune cells can transform themselves with plasticity that cancer labs seek to harness.