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In this Comment, Ahmad Abou Tayoun advocates for studies inclusive of historically under-represented populations to ensure equitable global access to genomic newborn screening.
Legnini et al. report in Nature Methods their new optogenetic method for controlling gene expression in organoids that can be coupled with single-cell and spatial transcriptomics.
Three papers in Nature report on the largest open-access plasma proteomics dataset to date, a valuable resource for understanding human disease and the identification of drug targets.
Leon Mutesa highlights a 2009 article by Yehuda and Bierer that considered the relevance of epigenetic mechanisms to post-traumatic stress disorder, which inspired his own research on the importance of DNA methylation changes in trauma survivors.
Five leading researchers provide their perspectives on our current understanding of pioneer factors and their important gene regulatory roles in cell differentiation, cell fate determination and reprogramming.
In this Review, the authors describe how the application of new technologies to the microRNA (miRNA) field has yielded key insights into miRNA biology. The authors summarize our current understanding of miRNA biogenesis, function and processing, and highlight challenges to address in future research.
Incongruence occurs when phylogenetic trees show conflicting evolutionary histories such as patterns of branching or relationships among taxa. This Review discusses the biological and analytical factors that lead to incongruence, methodological advances to identify and resolve incongruence, and avenues for future research.
Control can be applied to alter the ecological or evolutionary trajectory of a target system towards a predefined objective. In this Review, the authors discuss the aims, applications, mechanisms and dynamics of eco-evolutionary control across different biological systems.