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  • Two new approaches to neurochemical monitoring in vivo—an improved real-time microsensor and genetically engineered cells that sense neurotransmitter levels—address the critical issue of brain reactivity to implanted devices.

    • Paul A Garris
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  • A surprisingly simple method provides an effective way of correcting optical distortions in two-photon fluorescence microscopy and recovers nearly ideal images of inhomogeneous thick samples.

    • Rainer Heintzmann
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  • By grouping short reads derived from the same long genomic fragment, the reads can easily be assembled into fragments that approach the length of capillary sequencing reads.

    • Steven L Salzberg
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  • Cardiomyocytes can be sorted to high purity upon staining them with a dye that labels mitochondria. This permits the preparation of pure populations of cardiomyocytes differentiated from stem cells.

    • Christine Mummery
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  • Mouse lines with inducible reprogramming factors expressed from a single genomic locus will allow reprogramming studies in multiple cell types and defined genetic backgrounds.

    • Thomas P Zwaka
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