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Meeting brain–computer interface user performance expectations using a deep neural network decoding framework

Schwemmer, M.A. et al. Nat. Med. 10.1038/s41591-018-0171-y (2018)

Sixteen diverse laboratory mouse reference genomes define strain-specific haplotypes and novel functional loci

Lilue, J. et al. Nat. Genet. 10.1038/s41588-018-0223-8 (2018)

Rapid improvement of domestication traits in an orphan crop by genome editing

Lemmon, Z.H. et al. Nat. Plants 4, 766–770 (2018)

Generation of human oogonia from induced pluripotent stem cells in vitro

Yamashiro, C. et al. Science 10.1126/science.aat1674 (2018)

In utero CRISPR-mediated therapeutic editing of metabolic genes

Rossidis, A.C. et al. Nat. Med. 24, 1513–1518 (2018)

Transcriptional recording by CRISPR spacer acquisition from RNA

Schmidt, F., Cherepkova, M.Y. & Platt, R.J. Nature 10.1038/s41586-018-0569-1 (2018)