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Nature - Advance Online Publication (AOP)
• The importance of mixed selectivity in complex cognitive tasks (Nature, 2013-05-19)
• A key role for mitochondrial gatekeeper pyruvate dehydrogenase in oncogene-induced senescence (Nature, 2013-05-19)
• Single-cell transcriptomics reveals bimodality in expression and splicing in immune cells (Nature, 2013-05-19)
• Structural basis for alternating access of a eukaryotic calcium/proton exchanger (Nature, 2013-05-19)
• Biochemistry: The ylide has landed (Nature, 2013-05-15)
• Synthetic biology: It's an analog world (Nature, 2013-05-15)
• Structural biology: Tiny enzyme uses context to succeed (Nature, 2013-05-15)
• Synthetic analog computation in living cells (Nature, 2013-05-15)
• Hofstadter’s butterfly and the fractal quantum Hall effect in moiré superlattices (Nature, 2013-05-15)
• The rewards of restraint in the collective regulation of foraging by harvester ant colonies (Nature, 2013-05-15)
• Structure-guided discovery of the metabolite carboxy-SAM that modulates tRNA function (Nature, 2013-05-15)
Cell - Immediate Early Publication (IEP)
• Human Embryonic Stem Cells Derived by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (Cell, May 15, 2013)
• Transcriptional and Epigenetic Dynamics during Specification of Human Embryonic Stem Cells (Cell, May 09, 2013)
• Cyclic [G(2′,5′)pA(3′,5′)p] Is the Metazoan Second Messenger Produced by DNA-Activated Cyclic GMP-AMP Synthase (Cell, May 03, 2013)
Nature Genetics - Advance Online Publication (AOP)
• Forward genetic screen for malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor formation identifies new genes and pathways driving tumorigenesis (Nature Genetics, 2013-05-19)
• Population genomics of post-vaccine changes in pneumococcal epidemiology (Nature Genetics, 2013-05-05)
• Genome-wide association study identifies common variants in SLC39A6 associated with length of survival in esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma (Nature Genetics, 2013-05-05)
• Multiple populations of artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Cambodia (Nature Genetics, 2013-04-28)
• Mutations in TUBG1, DYNC1H1, KIF5C and KIF2A cause malformations of cortical development and microcephaly (Nature Genetics, 2013-04-21)
• Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for pulmonary fibrosis (Nature Genetics, 2013-04-14)
• Whole-genome sequencing identifies genetic alterations in pediatric low-grade gliomas (Nature Genetics, 2013-04-14)
• Identification of heart rate–associated loci and their effects on cardiac conduction and rhythm disorders (Nature Genetics, 2013-04-14)
• The mutational landscape of adenoid cystic carcinoma (Nature Genetics, 2013-05-19)
• A functional variant in the CFI gene confers a high risk of age-related macular degeneration (Nature Genetics, 2013-05-19)
• Meta-analysis identifies four new loci associated with testicular germ cell tumor (Nature Genetics, 2013-05-12)
Science - Sciencexpress
• [Report] Dynamic Topography Change of the Eastern United States Since 3 Million Years Ago (Science, 2013-05-16)
• [Report] Terahertz Metamaterials for Linear Polarization Conversion and Anomalous Refraction (Science, 2013-05-16)
• [Report] Massive Dirac Fermions and Hofstadter Butterfly in a van der Waals Heterostructure (Science, 2013-05-16)
• [Report] B Cells Use Mechanical Energy to Discriminate Antigen Affinities (Science, 2013-05-16)
• [Report] Targeting Isoprenylcysteine Methylation Ameliorates Disease in a Mouse Model of Progeria (Science, 2013-05-16)
• [Policy Forum] Patient Autonomy and Incidental Findings in Clinical Genomics (Science, 2013-05-16)
• [Policy Forum] Ethics and Genomic Incidental Findings (Science, 2013-05-16)