A compact protein pair that heterodimerizes upon red light activation, FenixS and Ash1, is developed for optogenetic applications.

WILD is a wireless device that can record neuronal activity, perform optogenetic stimulations, record animal movements, record the environment or eye movements via an integrated camera, analyze the da...

MemBrain v2 enables streamlined analysis of membranes in cryo-electron tomography by providing user-friendly tools for membrane segmentation, membrane protein localization and spatial analysis, suppor...

IRIS learns conserved signaling representations from in vitro perturbation data to reconstruct signaling states and histories across diverse in vivo cellular contexts.

DeepWonder3D is a pipeline for neuronal extraction from volumetric calcium imaging data acquired with a variety of one-photon or two-photon microscopy modalities.

Spl-ISO-Seq2, Spl-IsoQuant-2 and Spl-IsoFind enable isoform sequencing, barcode calling of >450 million barcodes, and spatially variable isoform detection with high spatial resolution as demonstrat...

Iterative Mapping of proteoforms enables large-scale measurement of intact proteoforms with single-molecule resolution. The approach is demonstrated here by quantifying tau proteoform groups across co...

This month, several review and opinion pieces discuss how AI is having an impact across nearly all areas of biological research.See Editorial

Cell biologists have long known that mechanical forces, such as tension and compression, influence tissue differentiation. Now, advanced methods are letting them observe and manipulate these forces in...

Spatial-ATAC-Hi-C enables the profiling of both chromatin accessibility and organization in a spatially resolved manner, as demonstrated on mouse brain and human glioblastoma and astrocytoma samples.

Advances in electron microscopy instrumentation and methods continue to drive progress in the physical and life sciences. The 4th edition of this conference will bring together researchers from physic...

This Perspective examines the role of AI-based image analysis when applied to stem cell-derived models.

This Perspective highlights key research areas within mass spectrometry-based proteomics where AI is poised to drive significant advances.

Specialized research software has historically been costly and time-consuming to create, but large language models (LLMs) have become capable enough at code generation to fundamentally change this. We describe how LLM-assisted programming disrupts the landscape by allowing researchers to build tools without support from software engineers, illustrate this with an example built rapidly by a single LLM-assisted developer, and discuss opportunities and risks.

Using a polarimetric approach, SPIFFI enables real-time super-resolution imaging of live-cell samples.

Raman Enhanced Delineation of Cell Atlases in Tissues (REDCAT) integrates stimulated Raman scattering microscopy and high-plex immunofluorescence to profile single-cell proteins, lipids, nuclear metab...

Two scientists blend their love of music and science in different ways.

Benchmarking spatially aware clustering is challenging. SACCELERATOR is an open-source, extensible framework that formalizes expert-guided spatial clustering analysis.

MS2 bacteriophage-derived protein shells called ‘nanocrates’ help address the air–water interface-induced artifacts in cryo-EM structure determination by encapsulating target proteins and enabling the...

PASTA is a platform-agnostic signal amplification approach for multiplexed imaging across modalities.

Voltage imaging across much of the zebrafish brain is achieved at 200.8 Hz, by optimizing a remote-scanning light-sheet microscope.

A Kaggle challenge for particle picking in experimental cryo-electron tomography data delivered new machine learning algorithms that outperformed state-of-the-art software and provides a critical refe...

This Article demonstrates that direct preference optimization (DPO) can be used to effectively align an unsupervised structure-conditioned language model with biophysical information. The aligned mode...

kpiCells are a biomimetic artificial cell system to investigate mechanoregulation in cell–cell interactions.