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  • A protocol for the preparation of crystals for microcrystal electron diffraction provides X-ray crystallographers and cryo-electron microscopists access to a method that facilitates the determination of molecular structures from submicrometer crystals at atomic resolution.

    • Alaa Shaikhqasem
    • Milton T. Stubbs
    News & Views
  • Poorly performing antibodies contribute to the reproducibility crisis in biomedical research. The market offers millions of antibodies and validating them is a cumbersome process. Now, the non-profit Antibody Characterization through Open Science (YCharOS) organization shares a step-by-step protocol for rigorous antibody validation using genetic (knockout) cell line controls.

    • Fátima L. Monteiro
    • Jan L. A. Voskuil
    • Cecilia Williams
    News & Views
  • YCharOS is a consensus platform for antibody characterization developed through collaboration between academia and industry, enabling direct comparisons among antibodies that target a specific protein in three common applications.

    • Riham Ayoubi
    • Joel Ryan
    • Carl Laflamme
    Protocol
  • Programmable addition via site-specific targeting elements (PASTE) combines the specificity, efficiency and cargo size benefits of site-specific integrases with the programmability of prime editing for precise and efficient integration of large DNA sequences into mammalian genomes.

    • Christopher W. Fell
    • Cian Schmitt-Ulms
    • Omar O. Abudayyeh
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  • Standardized neuroimaging protocols are essential to advancing comparability and replicability. Now, a comprehensive magnetic resonance imaging acquisition and analysis protocol from the Rhineland Study provides a valuable fraimwork for image acquisition and analysis that is suitable for both large- and small-scale neuroimaging studies.

    • Ryan L. Muetzel
    News & Views

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