Tools and Resources

A Tools and Resources article allows authors to publish the details of new experimental techniques, datasets, software tools, and other resources.

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    1. Neuroscience

    SynaptoTagMe, a toolkit for in vivo mapping and modulating neurotransmission at single-cell resolution

    Andrea Cuentas-Condori, Patricia Chanabá-López ... Daniel A Colón-Ramos
    Endogenous tagging and conditional silencing of vesicular transporters reveal widespread, conserved co-transmission, and enable causal dissection of transmitter-specific synaptic function, linking molecular identity to circuit dynamics and behavior in vivo.
    1. Developmental Biology

    A cell atlas of the developing human outflow tract of the heart and its adult aortic valve derivatives

    Rotem Leshem, Syed Murtuza-Baker ... Nicoletta Bobola
    Transcriptomic profiling of the developing human outflow tract and adult aortic valves reveals that adult valve cells retain distinct embryonic molecular signatures.
    1. Genetics and Genomics

    A pilot study for whole proteome tagging in Caenorhabditis elegans

    Matthew Eroglu, Oliver Hobert
    Simultaneous tagging of multiple genes with different fluorophores provides a proof of concept for the scalability of tagging all genes in the Caenorhabditis elegans genome.
    1. Immunology and Inflammation

    Cas9+ conditionally immortalized neutrophil progenitors as a tool for genome-wide CRISPR screening for neutrophil differentiation and function

    Robyn M Jong, Krystal L Ching ... Sarah A Stanley
    Cas9+ER-Hoxb8 neutrophils are a new tool for investigating neutrophil biology in vitro and in vivo.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    High-frequency spike inference with particle Gibbs sampling

    Giovanni Diana, B Semihcan Sermet ... David A DiGregorio
    A Bayesian particle Gibbs framework enables unbiased spike time inference with millisecond resolution and jointly estimates uncertainties in both spike timing and model parameters from fast calcium imaging.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    A quantitative pipeline for whole-mount deep imaging and analysis of multi-layered organoids across scales

    Alice Gros, Jules Vanaret ... Sham Tlili
    The Tapenade pipeline enables single-cell, whole-mount 3D quantification in dense multilayer organoids, linking spatial gene co-expression and nuclear deformation to emerging tissue-scale organization.
    1. Ecology

    Full factorial construction of synthetic microbial communities

    Juan Diaz-Colunga, Pablo Catalan ... Alvaro Sanchez
    A rapid, inexpensive, and easy to implement experimental protocol enables the construction of combinatorially complete sets of microbial consortia.
    1. Neuroscience

    Functional imaging of nine distinct neuronal populations under a miniscope in freely behaving animals

    Mary L Phillips, Nicolai T Urban ... Ryohei Yasuda
    Multiplexed spectral fingerprinting through a single implanted GRIN lens enables projection-resolved functional imaging of up to nine neuronal populations in freely behaving animals without post hoc histology.
    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Real-time transcriptomic profiling in distinct experimental conditions

    Tamer Butto, Stefan Pastore ... Susanne Gerber
    Real-time nanopore transcriptomics enables early detection of expression changes and sample quality, offering a rapid, cost-effective strategy for experimental quality control and transcriptomic analysis.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Interrogating the structure and function of the human voltage-gated proton channel (hHv1) with a fluorescent noncanonical amino acid

    Emerson M Carmona, William N Zagotta, Sharona E Gordon
    A fluorescent noncanonical amino acid enables structural measurements across full-length human voltage-gated proton channel (Hv1) and reveals zinc-dependent conformational changes.