Neurotechniques
In every issue, we showcase exciting technique articles from top journals. Access to featured primary research articles from journals in the Nature family is free for three months.
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September 2007
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C. elegans roadmap
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Researchers catalog the developmental expression patterns of C. elegans homologs to human genes in a searchable online database.
Original research paper: PLoS Biology 5, e237 (2007)
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Suck it up
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Molecular sponges bind up microRNA, preventing the downregulation of microRNA target genes.
Original research paper: Nature Methods 4, 721-726 (2007)
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Opportunistic infections
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Researchers use viral replication to screen for modulators of ligand-gated ion channels.
Original research paper: Nature Methods 4, 733-739 (2007)
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Knockouts go retro
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A new high-throughput knockout technique uses components from retroviruses to disrupt genes at random.
Original research paper: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104, 14406-14411 (2007)
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