Neurotechniques
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March 2007
Pumping iron
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Magnetic resonance imaging detects expression of an iron-binding transgene in mice.
Original research paper: Nature Medicine (2007)
Even flow
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Researchers generate microparticles containing oligonucleotide probes and barcodes for high-throughput genomics in solutions.
Original research paper: Science 315, 1393-1396 (2007)
Light switch
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Researchers serendipitously design a photoactivated compound that potentiates GABA receptors.
Original research paper: Nature Neuroscience (2007)
Hunting hormones
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A bioinformatics technique identifies two new peptide hormones in the human proteome.
Original research paper: Genome Research (2007)
Smoke gets in your flies
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A new gene-association technique identifies metabolic genes that confer nicotine resistance to some Drosophila in the wild.
Original research paper: Nature Genetics 39, 264-268 (2007)