Optical spectroscopy articles within Nature Reviews Genetics

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    A full understanding of chromatin in diverse cellular processes requires the consideration of its dynamics, but most standard chromatin assays provide only a static snapshot. This Review describes various emerging methods for probing chromatin dynamics across a wide range of temporal and spatial scales, and discusses the resulting biological insights.

    • Olivier Cuvier
    •  & Beat Fierz
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    Despite their complexity and dynamics, proteomes are starting to be comprehensively characterized; this has been made possible particularly by various technical advances in mass spectrometry. This Review highlights how proteomic studies are contributing to our understanding of various cellular processes in health and disease.

    • A. F. Maarten Altelaar
    • , Javier Munoz
    •  & Albert J. R. Heck