Nature Method has recently sorted out the most noteworthy technologies in 2016, including protein labeling in cells, unraveling nuclear architecture, protein structure though time, precision optogenetics, highly multiplexed imaging, deep learning, subcellular maps and integrated single-cell profiles. Florescent dyes are relatively small, having good photophysical properties and spectral span. Those features make fluorescent dyes attractive, and they are expected to replace fluorescent protein for protein labeling. Researchers are actively…
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Month-end Check: Biotech study topics in Nature-July (Part TWO)
First robust genetic links to depression emerge Jonathan Flint and his team have found the first two genetic makers reproducibly linked to major depressive disorder, one of which is the leading causes of disability worldwide. This study yield two genetic sequences that seemed to have relation with depression: one in a stretch of DNA that codes for an enzyme whose function is not understood thoroughly until now and the other…