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TABLE OF CONTENTS

October 2016 Volume 34, Issue 10

Editorial
News
Bioentrepreneur
Opinion and Comment
Features
News and Views
Research
Careers and Recruitment
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Editorial

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An incredible fudge   p997
doi:10.1038/nbt.3705
Although a US law mandating disclosure of GM ingredients provides food companies with a way out of the labeling rabbit hole, appeasing the anti-GM movement will likely backfire.

News

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Early clinical data raise the bar for hemophilia gene therapies   pp999 - 1001
Elie Dolgin
doi:10.1038/nbt1016-999

Big win possible for Ionis/Biogen antisense drug in muscular atrophy   pp1002 - 1003
Ken Garber
doi:10.1038/nbt1016-1002

Bayer bids $66 billion for Monsanto   p1003
Emily Waltz
doi:10.1038/nbt1016-1003

Surprise rejection for Amgen's D-peptide   p1004
Cormac Sheridan
doi:10.1038/nbt1016-1004a

Seres's pioneering microbiome drug fails mid-stage trial   pp1004 - 1005
Mark Ratner
doi:10.1038/nbt1016-1004b

Allergan enriches skin portfolio   p1005
doi:10.1038/nbt1016-1005

BMS bets on targeting IL-8 to enhance cancer immunotherapies   pp1006 - 1007
Elie Dolgin
doi:10.1038/nbt1016-1006

Around the world in a month   p1007
doi:10.1038/nbt1016-1007

Synthetic biology firms pivot from biofuels to cheap biologics   p1008
Cormac Sheridan
doi:10.1038/nbt1016-1008

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Data Page

Top 20 translational researchers of 2015   p1009
Brady Huggett and Kathryn Paisner
doi:10.1038/nbt.3686

Podcast

First Rounders Podcast: Nancy J Kelley   p1009
doi:10.1038/nbt.3688

Opinion and Comment

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Correspondence

A community-based model of rapid autopsy in end-stage cancer patients   pp1010 - 1014
Kathryn Alsop, Heather Thorne, Shahneen Sandhu, Anne Hamilton, Christopher Mintoff et al.
doi:10.1038/nbt.3674

Bypassing GMO regulations with CRISPR gene editing   pp1014 - 1015
Jungeun Kim and Jin-Soo Kim
doi:10.1038/nbt.3680

Commentary

Lost in the citation valley   pp1016 - 1018
Gerard Pasterkamp, Imo Hoefer and Berent Prakken
doi:10.1038/nbt.3691
Changing the academic reward system to improve translational medicine should start by moving away from a myopic focus on publications.

Features

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Rekindling cancer vaccines   pp1019 - 1024
Malorye Allison Branca
doi:10.1038/nbt.3690
Interest in cancer vaccines is being reignited by a greater understanding of tumor immunology and the potential of combining immunogens with new breakthrough immunotherapies.

Patents

The emerging patent landscape of CRISPR-Cas gene editing technology   pp1025 - 1031
Knut J Egelie, Gregory D Graff, Sabina P Strand and Berit Johansen
doi:10.1038/nbt.3692
Early views on the control of the CRISPR-Cas disruptive enabling technology and access for follow-on commercial applications.

Recent patents in neurotechnology and neuroengineering   p1032
doi:10.1038/nbt.3706

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News and Views

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Quantifying the human proteome   pp1033 - 1034
Amanda G Paulovich and Jeffrey R Whiteaker
doi:10.1038/nbt.3695
An atlas of targeted mass spectrometry coordinates provides a starting point for measuring the unmodified human proteome.

Research Highlights   p1034
doi:10.1038/nbt.3699

Rewiring Escherichia coli for carbon-dioxide fixation   pp1035 - 1036
Cheryl A Kerfeld
doi:10.1038/nbt.3693
Engineering bacteria to convert carbon dioxide into sugar may enable diverse biotechnological applications.

DNA cages target quantum dots   p1036
Joao H. Duarte
doi:10.1038/nbt.3694

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Research

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Articles

Large-scale detection of antigen-specific T cells using peptide-MHC-I multimers labeled with DNA barcodes   pp1037 - 1045
Amalie Kai Bentzen, Andrea Marion Marquard, Rikke Lyngaa, Sunil Kumar Saini, Sofie Ramskov et al.
doi:10.1038/nbt.3662
Detection of more than 1,000 different T-cell specificities in parallel facilitates identification of cancer and autoimmune antigens.

Expression of an insecticidal fern protein in cotton protects against whitefly   pp1046 - 1051
Anoop Kumar Shukla, Santosh Kumar Upadhyay, Manisha Mishra, Sharad Saurabh, Rahul Singh et al.
doi:10.1038/nbt.3665
Cotton plants are protected from the sap-sucking whitefly and a viral disease it transmits by transgenic expression of an insecticidal fern protein.

High-throughput measurement of single-cell growth rates using serial microfluidic mass sensor arrays   pp1052 - 1059
Nathan Cermak, Selim Olcum, Francisco Feijo Delgado, Steven C Wasserman, Kristofor R Payer et al.
doi:10.1038/nbt.3666
Heterogeneity in growth phenotypes and drug susceptibility in bacterial and mammalian cells are assayed at the single-cell level using multiplexed resonant mass sensors.

Letters

Targeted DNA demethylation in vivo using dCas9-peptide repeat and scFv-TET1 catalytic domain fusions   pp1060 - 1065
Sumiyo Morita, Hirofumi Noguchi, Takuro Horii, Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Mika Kimura et al.
doi:10.1038/nbt.3658
DNA methyl groups are selectively removed at target loci using inactive Cas9 fused to a SunTag-based peptide repeat that recruits the enzymatic activity.

Blood pressure regulation by CD4+ lymphocytes expressing choline acetyltransferase   pp1066 - 1071
Peder S Olofsson, Benjamin E Steinberg, Roozbeh Sobbi, Maureen A Cox, Mohamed N Ahmed et al.
doi:10.1038/nbt.3663
A CD4 T-cell population expressing choline acetyltransferase is shown to contribute to blood pressure regulation.

Errata

Erratum: Stabilizing prospects for a universal flu vaccine   p1072
Markus Elsner
doi:10.1038/nbt1016-1072a

Erratum: Will Europe toast GM wheat for gluten sufferers?   p1072
Lucas Laursen
doi:10.1038/nbt1016-1072b

Corrigenda

Corrigendum: Secure cloud computing for genomic data   p1072
Somalee Datta, Keith Bettinger and Michael Snyder
doi:10.1038/nbt1016-1072c

Corrigendum: Genetic improvement of tomato by targeted control of fruit softening   p1072
Selman Uluisik, Natalie H Chapman, Rebecca Smith, Mervin Poole, Gary Adams et al.
doi:10.1038/nbt1016-1072d

Careers and Recruitment

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Learn new languages to get ahead   pp1073 - 1074
Alexander Birbrair
doi:10.1038/nbt.3698
A knowledge of languages enables connections that open up new opportunities in the sciences.

People

People   p1076
doi:10.1038/nbt.3707

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