{"id":45,"date":"2009-04-03T17:18:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T17:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/2009\/04\/highlights-of-recent-methods-papers.html"},"modified":"2011-12-22T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T15:33:10","slug":"post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/2009\/04\/post.html","title":{"rendered":"Highlights of recent methods papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each month, the editorial team gets together to select papers describing exciting new methods to cover in short news pieces in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmeth\/journal\/v6\/n4\/index.html#rhighlts\">Research Highlights<\/a> section of the journal. We comb the recent literature in top general journals like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/index.html\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/\"><em>Science<\/em> <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/current\"><em>Cell<\/em><\/a>, as well as top specialized journals in various subject areas, and we even take suggestions from authors! Unfortunately, we cannot cover all of the interesting methods papers we find, so each month I will highlight these papers, which didn&#8217;t quite make the cut, in Methagora.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few such papers describing intriguing methods, which were published within the last month or so. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\/journal\/v1\/n1\/abs\/nchem.120.html\">Imaging intracellular viscosity of a single cell during photoinduced cell death<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Nature Chemistry <\/em><strong>1<\/strong>, 69 &#8211; 73 (2009)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nbt\/journal\/v27\/n3\/abs\/nbt.1529.html\">Highly efficient neural conversion of human ES and iPS cells by dual inhibition of <span class=\"caps\">SMAD<\/span> signaling<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Nature Biotechnology<\/em> <strong>27<\/strong>, 275 &#8211; 280 (2009)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/sci;323\/5920\/1448?maxtoshow=&#038;HITS=10&#038;hits=10&#038;RESULTFORMAT=&#038;fulltext=tsien&#038;searchid=1&#038;FIRSTINDEX=0&#038;sortspec=date&#038;resourcetype=HWCIT\">The Dynamic Control of Kiss-And-Run and Vesicular Reuse Probed with Single Nanoparticles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Science <\/em><strong>323<\/strong>, 1448 &#8211; 1453 (2009)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/106\/12\/4617.abstract?sid=46972f19-4ce3-47c1-a45b-61f14d1e6f04\">Identifying the proteins to which small-molecule probes and drugs bind in cells<\/a><em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caps\">PNAS<\/span> <\/em><strong>106<\/strong>, 4617 &#8211; 4622 (2009)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v458\/n7236\/abs\/nature07846.html\">Femtosecond characterization of vibrational optical activity of chiral molecules<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Nature <\/em><strong>458<\/strong>, 310 &#8211; 313 (2009)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2009\/03\/20\/0901770106.abstract?sid=e52deb70-3eee-454b-b7ef-123dbfb4e5ee\">A membrane interferometer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"caps\">PNAS<\/span><\/em>, published online March 23, 2009<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nmat\/journal\/v8\/n4\/abs\/nmat2398.html\">Biodegradable luminescent porous silicon nanoparticles for <em>in vivo<\/em> applications<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Nature Materials <\/em><strong>8<\/strong>, 331 &#8211; 336 (2009)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcponline.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/M800392-MCP200v1?maxtoshow=&#038;HITS=10&#038;hits=10&#038;RESULTFORMAT=1&#038;author1=de+koster&#038;andorexacttitle=and&#038;andorexacttitleabs=and&#038;andorexactfulltext=and&#038;searchid=1&#038;FIRSTINDEX=0&#038;sortspec=relevance&#038;resourcetype=HWCIT\">Identification and quantitation of newly synthesized proteins in <em>E. coli <\/em>by enrichment of azido homoalanine-labeled peptides with diagonal chromatography <\/a><em><\/p>\n<p>Mol. Cell. Proteomics<\/em>, published online March 25, 2009<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nphoton\/journal\/v3\/n3\/abs\/nphoton.2009.2.html\"><span class=\"caps\">STED<\/span> microscopy reveals crystal colour centres with nanometric resolution<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Nature Photonics <\/em><strong>3<\/strong>, 144 &#8211; 147 (2009)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each month, the editorial team gets together to select papers describing exciting new methods to cover in short news pieces in the Research Highlights section of the journal. We comb the recent literature in top general journals like Nature, Science and Cell, as well as top specialized journals in various subject areas, and we even take suggestions from authors! Unfortunately, we cannot cover all of the interesting methods papers we find, so each month I will highlight these papers, which didn\u2019t quite make the cut, in Methagora.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/2009\/04\/highlights-of-recent-methods-papers.html#wpn-more-45\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/2009\/04\/post.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal-happenings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/methagora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}