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The Drosophila embryo at single-cell transcriptome resolution

Karaiskos, N. et al. Science 10.1126/science.aan3235 (2017).

In situ capture of chromatin interactions by biotinylated dCas9

Liu, X. et al. Cell 170, 1028–1043.e19 (2017).

Massively parallel single-nucleus RNA-seq with DroNc-seq

Habib, N. et al. Nat. Methods 10.1038/nmeth.4407 (2017).

Inflammation-free, gas-permeable, lightweight, stretchable on-skin electronics with nanomeshes

Miyamoto, A. et al. Nat. Nanotechnol. 12, 907–913 (2017).

Commensal bacteria make GPCR ligands that mimic human signalling molecules

Cohen, L.J. et al. Nature 549, 48–53 (2017).