Reflections on impact
In this month’s editorial, we reflect on the journal impact factor and its relationship to impact, especially for publishing methods papers. Read more
In this month’s editorial, we reflect on the journal impact factor and its relationship to impact, especially for publishing methods papers. Read more
Comparing methods in a fair and informative manner is often not straightforward. Benchmark data sets, thoughtfully applied metrics and clear reporting can help. Read this month’s editorial here. Read more
Our tenth anniversary is an occasion to celebrate methods development! Read more
Over the summer we asked for contributions from our readers for the cover of our tenth anniversary issue. We asked for images of the number “10” made using biological research tools and techniques. We were delighted to have many excellent submissions and to be able to use them all on the cover. Here is a bit more detail about these images. Read more
On this 10th anniversary of the first issue of Nature Methods it is appropriate to look back at the relationship between the journal and super-resolution microscopy, one of the technologies we have chosen as one of the top ten methods developments in the ten years since Nature Methods published it first issue. Read more
The optogenetic manipulation of cellular properties has not only revolutionized neuroscience, but this technology can also be applied to the manipulation of signaling pathways, transcription or other processes in non-neuronal cells. Here, we highlight some of the papers we have published on the neuroscience side of optogenetics. Read more
It was only a few months before Nature Methods was launched in October 2004 that Jan Huisken and Ernst Stelzer had published a paper in Science in which they used light sheet microscopy – what they called selective plane illumination microscopy or SPIM – to image fluorescence within transgenic embryos. Simplistically put, this century-old technique achieves optical sectioning by illuminating a sample through its width with a thin sheet of light. In the last decade, Nature Methods has published a steady stream of papers reporting developments in light-sheet imaging. Here are the highlights. Read more
A look back at highlights in proteomics technology developments published in Nature Methods. Read more
Since its launch, Nature Methods has seen many papers that have influenced the Synthetic Biology community. As a supplement to our May Focus on Synthetic Biology we take a nostalgic trip through the highlights of our papers in this area for different aspects of synthetic biology. Read more
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