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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 19m
SVPG: accurate pangenome-facilitated structural variant detection from long-read sequencing data. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SVPG: a pangenome-based structural variant detection approach and rapid augmentation of pangenome graphs with new samples - Nature Methods
SVPG performs accurate pangenome-facilitated structural variant detection and accelerates pangenome graph augmentation using long-read sequencing data.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 30m
NanoTS: deep learning-based tool for nanopore long-read transcriptome sequencing-based SNP detection and genotype calling. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 1h
Confinement force microscopy enables tunable cell confinement for measuring traction forces exerted by single cells and cell aggregates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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CFM: confinement force microscopy—a dynamic, precise and stable microconfiner for traction force microscopy in spatial confinement - Nature Methods
CFM enables tunable cell confinement for measuring traction forces exerted by single cells and cell aggregates in tissue-mimicking microenvironments.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 1h
SPLENDID treats ancestry as a continuum to improve polygenic risk score prediction for biobank-scale datasets. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SPLENDID incorporates continuous genetic ancestry in biobank-scale data to improve polygenic risk prediction across diverse populations - Nature Methods
Rather than relying on pre-specified ancestry labels, which often fail to capture the full genetic heterogeneity of diverse populations, SPLENDID treats ancestry as a continuum and improves polygenic ...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 22/09/2026
A compact protein pair, FenixS and Ash1, heterodimerizes upon red light activation for optogenetics. @chemuoft.bsky.social @giangle-1.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An ultralow-background far-red light-responsive optogenetic tool based on an engineered biliverdin-binding domain - Nature Methods
A compact protein pair that heterodimerizes upon red light activation, FenixS and Ash1, is developed for optogenetic applications.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 22/09/2026
WILD: a wireless device for studies of brain activity in freely moving animals under naturalistic conditions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A wireless modular platform for neuro-behavioral recording and closed-loop manipulation in small animals - Nature Methods
WILD is a wireless device that can record neuronal activity, perform optogenetic stimulations, record animal movements, record the environment or eye movements via an integrated camera, analyze the da...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 22/09/2026
MemBrain v2: streamlined analysis of membranes in cryo-ET with tools for membrane segmentation, protein localization and spatial analysis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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MemBrain v2: an end-to-end tool for the analysis of membranes in cryo-electron tomography - Nature Methods
MemBrain v2 enables streamlined analysis of membranes in cryo-electron tomography by providing user-friendly tools for membrane segmentation, membrane protein localization and spatial analysis, suppor...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 22/09/2026
IRIS learns conserved signaling representations from in vivo perturbation data to reconstruct cell signaling states and histories. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reconstructing signaling histories of single cells via perturbation screens and transfer learning - Nature Methods
IRIS learns conserved signaling representations from in vitro perturbation data to reconstruct signaling states and histories across diverse in vivo cellular contexts.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 18/09/2026
DeepWonder3D: a pipeline for neuronal extraction from volumetric calcium imaging data. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rapid robust high-fidelity 3D neuronal extraction from multiview calcium imaging datasets - Nature Methods
DeepWonder3D is a pipeline for neuronal extraction from volumetric calcium imaging data acquired with a variety of one-photon or two-photon microscopy modalities.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 18/09/2026
Spatial isoform sequencing at single cell resolution, as demonstrated in mouse brain slices. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spatial isoform sequencing at single-cell resolution reveals cell-type-specific spatial isoform variability in multiple brain cell types - Nature Methods
Spl-ISO-Seq2, Spl-IsoQuant-2 and Spl-IsoFind enable isoform sequencing, barcode calling of >450 million barcodes, and spatially variable isoform detection with high spatial resolution as demonstrat...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 18/09/2026
Iterative Mapping of proteoforms technology allows measuring intact proteoforms at the single molecule level. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Large-scale single-molecule analysis of tau proteoforms - Nature Methods
Iterative Mapping of proteoforms enables large-scale measurement of intact proteoforms with single-molecule resolution. The approach is demonstrated here by quantifying tau proteoform groups across co...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 10/09/2026
Our September issue is live! 🎉 www.nature.com/nmeth/volume... This special issue includes a Focus on AI in biological research. AI is everywhere these days, and is impacting nearly all fields of biology. To learn more, read our Editorial and check out the focus content!
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Nature Methods - Focus on AI in biological research
This month, several review and opinion pieces discuss how AI is having an impact across nearly all areas of biological research.See Editorial
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 03/09/2026
In our latest Technology Feature, Caroline Seydel explores how mechanical forces such as tension and compression influence tissue differentiation, and how cell biologists are observing and manipulating such forces in living systems. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The physics of sculpting a living creature - Nature Methods
Cell biologists have long known that mechanical forces, such as tension and compression, influence tissue differentiation. Now, advanced methods are letting them observe and manipulate these forces in...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 03/09/2026
Spatial-ATAC-Hi-C enables profiling chromatin accessibility and spatial organization, as shown in mouse and human brain samples. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spatial chromatin architecture and accessibility co-profiling of mammalian tissues - Nature Methods
Spatial-ATAC-Hi-C enables the profiling of both chromatin accessibility and organization in a spatially resolved manner, as demonstrated on mouse brain and human glioblastoma and astrocytoma samples.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 13/08/2026
Join Nature Methods and other Nature journal editors at Princeton University this October to hear the latest electron microscopy instrumentation and methods driving progress in the physical and life sciences. go.nature.com/4h0zAME
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4th Frontiers in Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopy for the Physical and Life Sciences
Advances in electron microscopy instrumentation and methods continue to drive progress in the physical and life sciences. The 4th edition of this conference will bring together researchers from physic...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 01/09/2026
A Perspective from Deininger, Caldarelli, Zernicka-Goetz, and Mikut examines the role of AI-based image analysis as applied to stem cell-derived models. nature.com/articles/s41...
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From pixels to patterns: the AI revolution in stem cell-derived models - Nature Methods
This Perspective examines the role of AI-based image analysis when applied to stem cell-derived models.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 01/09/2026
In their Perspective, Matthias Mann, Bing Zhang, Tiannan Guo and colleagues discuss key areas in proteomics where AI is poised to drive advances. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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AI proteomics: from protein identification to virtual cells - Nature Methods
This Perspective highlights key research areas within mass spectrometry-based proteomics where AI is poised to drive significant advances.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 01/09/2026
In our August 'Points of View', @helenajambor.bsky.social and Alexander Lex discuss how to reuse, remix and vibe code scientific figures. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 01/09/2026
LLMs are allowing researchers to build software tools without support from software engineers. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Disruption of the research software landscape through AI software generation - Nature Methods
Specialized research software has historically been costly and time-consuming to create, but large language models (LLMs) have become capable enough at code generation to fundamentally change this. We describe how LLM-assisted programming disrupts the landscape by allowing researchers to build tools without support from software engineers, illustrate this with an example built rapidly by a single LLM-assisted developer, and discuss opportunities and risks.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 31/08/2026
SPIFFI enables real-time super-resolution imaging of live cells using a polarimetric approach. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SPIFFI enables single-shot super-resolution and multidimensional imaging - Nature Methods
Using a polarimetric approach, SPIFFI enables real-time super-resolution imaging of live-cell samples.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 31/08/2026
Raman Enhanced Delineation of Cell Atlases in Tissues (REDCAT) integrates stimulated Raman scattering microscopy and high-plex immunofluorescence to profile proteins, lipids, nuclear metabolites and redox metabolism in tissue. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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All-optical multimodal mapping of single-cell-type-specific metabolic activities via REDCAT - Nature Methods
Raman Enhanced Delineation of Cell Atlases in Tissues (REDCAT) integrates stimulated Raman scattering microscopy and high-plex immunofluorescence to profile single-cell proteins, lipids, nuclear metab...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 25/08/2026
Science and music have plenty in common. In this story, @vivienm.bsky.social asks two scientists about how they blend their love of music and with their science. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Composing a science life with music - Nature Methods
Two scientists blend their love of music and science in different ways.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 25/08/2026
SACCELERATOR: an open-source and extensible framework for expert-guided spatial clustering analysis. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Beyond benchmarking: an expert-guided consensus approach to spatially aware clustering - Nature Methods
Benchmarking spatially aware clustering is challenging. SACCELERATOR is an open-source, extensible framework that formalizes expert-guided spatial clustering analysis.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 25/08/2026
Protein nanocrates help address the air-water interface problem in cryo-EM-based protein structure determination. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Overcoming air–water interface-induced artifacts in cryo-EM with protein nanocrates - Nature Methods
MS2 bacteriophage-derived protein shells called ‘nanocrates’ help address the air–water interface-induced artifacts in cryo-EM structure determination by encapsulating target proteins and enabling the...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 25/08/2026
PASTA: a platform-agnostic signal amplification approach for multiplexed imaging across modalities. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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PASTA: versatile tyramide-oligonucleotide amplification for multimodal spatial biology - Nature Methods
PASTA is a platform-agnostic signal amplification approach for multiplexed imaging across modalities.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 24/08/2026
Voltage imaging across the zebrafish brain at 200.8Hz, achieved by optimizing a remote-scanning light-sheet microscope. @eboyden3.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Voltage imaging of neurons distributed across entire brains of larval zebrafish - Nature Methods
Voltage imaging across much of the zebrafish brain is achieved at 200.8 Hz, by optimizing a remote-scanning light-sheet microscope.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 24/08/2026
A Kaggle challenge for particle picking in cryo-ET data spurred the development of new algorithms that outperform state of the art software. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Lessons learned from a Kaggle challenge for particle picking in cryo-electron tomography - Nature Methods
A Kaggle challenge for particle picking in experimental cryo-electron tomography data delivered new machine learning algorithms that outperformed state-of-the-art software and provides a critical refe...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 24/08/2026
ProteinDPO: a protein language model for stability prediction and generation of thermostable protein sequences. @brianhie.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Aligning protein-generative models to experimental fitness with ProteinDPO - Nature Methods
This Article demonstrates that direct preference optimization (DPO) can be used to effectively align an unsupervised structure-conditioned language model with biophysical information. The aligned mode...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 24/08/2026
kpiCells: biomimetic artificial cells for investigating mechanoregulation in cell-cell interactions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Decoding mechanoregulation in immunological synapses using biomimetic artificial cells - Nature Methods
kpiCells are a biomimetic artificial cell system to investigate mechanoregulation in cell–cell interactions.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 13/08/2026
Join Nature Methods and other Nature journal editors at Princeton University this October to hear the latest electron microscopy instrumentation and methods driving progress in the physical and life sciences. go.nature.com/4h0zAME
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4th Frontiers in Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopy for the Physical and Life Sciences
Advances in electron microscopy instrumentation and methods continue to drive progress in the physical and life sciences. The 4th edition of this conference will bring together researchers from physic...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 07/08/2026
DABEST 2.0: Estimation graphics for multi-group comparisons. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Getting over ANOVA: estimation graphics for multi-group comparisons - Nature Methods
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 07/08/2026
MetaboApps: modular web applications for simplifying and enhancing downstream analysis in GNPS2. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Bridging complexity and accessibility in metabolomics with MetaboApps - Nature Methods
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 07/08/2026
In this month's Editorial, we discuss the success of our 1-year old program to formally recognize early-career researcher contributions to peer review. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Early-career researcher co-review, one year in - Nature Methods
A little more than one year ago, Nature Methods rolled out a program to formally recognize early-career researcher contributions to our peer review process. Here we provide an update on the program’s ...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 06/08/2026
GHT-SELEX shows that transcription factors are particular about which genomic loci they bind, and C2H2 zinc finger proteins engage different fingers at different sites. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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GHT-SELEX demonstrates unexpectedly high intrinsic sequence specificity and complex DNA binding of many human transcription factors - Nature Methods
GHT-SELEX—high-throughput SELEX with fragmented genomic DNA—shows that transcription factors can be rather particular about which genomic loci they bind, and that C2H2 zinc finger proteins often engag...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 06/08/2026
SpaMTP: comprehensive joint analysis of spatial metabolomics and transcriptomics data. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SpaMTP: integrative statistical analysis and visualization of spatial metabolomics and transcriptomics data - Nature Methods
SpaMTP enables comprehensive joint analysis of spatial metabolomics and transcriptomics data.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 06/08/2026
CellTune: high-precision analysis of spatial proteomics data via human-in-the-loop active learning. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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CellTune: an integrative software for accurate cell classification in spatial proteomics - Nature Methods
CellTune enables high precision analysis of spatial proteomics datasets through a human-in-the-loop active learning workflow.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 06/08/2026
Our August issue is now live! 🥳 www.nature.com/nmeth/volume... On the cover, a network of neurons communicated via action potentials. Image from Aliphasha Vaziri, Life Science Editors, and Duygu Koldere Vilain. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 05/08/2026
LATeNT: a light-activatable tetanus neurotoxin for spatiotemporally precise inhibition of exocytosis in neurons and other cells. @heegwangroh.bsky.social @aliceyting.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Light-activated tetanus neurotoxin for conditional proteolysis and inducible synaptic inhibition in vivo - Nature Methods
LATeNT is a light-activatable form of tetanus neurotoxin that can be used for spatiotemporally precise inhibition of exocytosis in neurons and other cells. It can inhibit synaptic transmission in vivo...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 05/08/2026
SecAct: a framework leveraging transcriptomic data to infer secreted protein signaling activities. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Inference of secreted protein signaling activities in intercellular communication - Nature Methods
SecAct is a framework that leverages transcriptomic data to infer secreted protein signaling activities.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 05/08/2026
An Analysis from @ptrrupprecht.bsky.social et al investigates the behavior of GCaMP8 variants in spike inference using different algorithms. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spike inference from calcium imaging data acquired with GCaMP8 indicators - Nature Methods
In this Analysis, Rupprecht et al. investigate the behavior of GCaMP8 variants in spike inference using several different algorithms. They highlight the role of the indicators’ linearity in the infere...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 05/08/2026
Spatialproteomics: a Python-based toolbox for end-to-end analysis of highly multiplexed imaging data. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spatialproteomics: an interoperable toolbox for analyzing highly multiplexed fluorescence image data - Nature Methods
Spatialproteomics is a Python-based toolbox that supports end-to-end analysis of highly multiplexed imaging data.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 05/08/2026
Fullscope-seq combines spatial transcriptomics with long-read sequencing to provide isoform information at the single-cell level, as demonstrated in macaque brain slices. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Full-length single-cell spatial transcriptomics reveals spatial and cell-type-specific transcript isoforms in the primate brain - Nature Methods
Fullscope-seq combines a spatial transcriptomics approach (Stereo-seq) with long-read sequencing. The approach provides isoform information at single-cell resolution across a large field of view, as d...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 23/07/2026
FlatMux: an optimized microscope system for multiplexed 2-photon imaging of neuronal activity with voltage sensors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A versatile platform for two-photon neuronal population voltage imaging across cortical depths - Nature Methods
FlatMux is an optimized microscope system for multiplexed two-photon imaging of neuronal activity with genetically encoded voltage sensors. The flexible system is demonstrated in a variety of scenario...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 23/07/2026
Introducing a phospho-switch for allosterically regulating target proteins in response to ERK kinase activity. @toettch.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Design and optimization of a kinase-controlled allosteric switch - Nature Methods
This Article introduces a phospho-switch for allosterically regulating target proteins in response to ERK kinase activity.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 23/07/2026
Siibra: a software suite for working with diverse human brain atlases, also used to generate the Multilevel Human Brain Atlas. @fz-juelich.de @hhu.de @ebrains.bsky.social @dickscheid.bsky.social @cea.fr @univ-amu.fr @uio.no www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Siibra: a software tool suite for realizing a Multilevel Human Brain Atlas from complex data resources - Nature Methods
Siibra is a software suite for working with diverse human brain atlases. It links data acquired with different modalities and at different resolution, thereby creating a Multilevel Human Brain Atlas.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 23/07/2026
Imaging of brain-wide vascular activity with BOLD fMRI combined with calcium imaging at single-cell resolution provides insights into neurovascular coupling in mice. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Simultaneous single-cell calcium imaging of neuronal population activity and brain-wide BOLD fMRI - Nature Methods
Imaging of brain-wide vascular activity with BOLD fMRI in combination with calcium imaging at single-cell resolution using MRI-compatible components provides detailed insights into neurovascular coupl...
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 17/07/2026
We are thrilled to present our latest special issue, with a Focus on global science. Diversity in biological research and equitable access to technology is imperative for democratizing research. For a roadmap to the issue, please read our Editorial. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 07/07/2026
Meet the keynote speakers presenting at a Nature Conference at @princeton.edu in October. Submit an abstract or secure your spot to this event exploring the latest challenges and developments of the next generation of Cryo-EM instruments, tools, and AI methods. go.nature.com/4tZB2Sv #STEMConference
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 14/07/2026
NicheTrans: a multimodal framework for translation of spatial data across modalities. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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NicheTrans: spatial-aware cross-omics translation - Nature Methods
NicheTrans is a multimodal framework that enables translation of spatial data across modalities.
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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 14/07/2026
A standardized file format and open-source software suite for Brillouin microscopy from @prevedel-lab.bsky.social @kelsayad.bsky.social and colleagues. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Towards a standardized file format and open-source analysis framework for Brillouin microscopy data - Nature Methods
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