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TABLE OF CONTENTS

September 2015 Volume 33, Issue 9

Editorial
News
Correction
Bioentrepreneur
Opinion and Comment
Features
News and Views
Computational Biology
Research
Careers and Recruitment

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TARGETING IL-17 IN INFLAMMATORY DISEASE 

This Collection highlights the opportunities and potential benefits of interleukin-17-targeted therapies for chronic inflammatory diseases.

Produced with support from 
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Editorial

Top

Incentivizing data donation   p885
doi:10.1038/nbt.3341
Even if human research and clinical practice find a way to integrate personal health data, uptake will remain limited unless people are incentivized to participate.

News

Top

Omics-driven startups challenge healthcare model   pp887 - 889
Cormac Sheridan
doi:10.1038/nbt0915-887

UK biotech smashes financing record   p889
doi:10.1038/nbt0915-889a

BEAM to fight antimicrobial resistance   p889
doi:10.1038/nbt0915-889b

RIKEN suspends first clinical trial involving induced pluripotent stem cells   pp890 - 891
Ken Garber
doi:10.1038/nbt0915-890

21st Century Cures Act wins in US House   p891
doi:10.1038/nbt0915-891

Celgene samples from science smorgasbord   pp892 - 893
Asher Mullard
doi:10.1038/nbt0915-892

Revamp biotech rules, says White House   p894
doi:10.1038/nbt0915-894a

Suicidal thoughts end Amgen's blockbuster aspirations for psoriasis drug   pp894 - 895
Charlie Schmidt
doi:10.1038/nbt0915-894b

3D Printed clothing house microorganisms   p896
doi:10.1038/nbt0915-896a

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Correction

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Corrections   p896
doi:10.1038/nbt0915-896b

News

Top

Around the world in a month   p896
doi:10.1038/nbt0915-896c

Bioentrepreneur

Top
Datapage

Top 20 translational researchers of 2014   p897
Brady Huggett and Kathryn Paisner
doi:10.1038/nbt.3335

Podcast

First Rounders Podcast: Stanley Crooke   p897
doi:10.1038/nbt.3336

Opinion and Comment

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Correspondence

Why microbial diagnostics need more than money   pp898 - 900
Mark Kessel
doi:10.1038/nbt.3328

Availability and payer coverage of BRCA1/2 tests and gene panels   pp900 - 902
Elizabeth Clain, Julia R Trosman, Michael P Douglas, Christine B Weldon and Kathryn A Phillips
doi:10.1038/nbt.3322

The payers' perspective on gene therapies   pp902 - 904
Nicolas Touchot and Mathias Flume
doi:10.1038/nbt.3332

Removing Bt eggplant from the face of Indian regulators   pp904 - 907
Pushpendra Kumar Gupta, Bhagirath Choudhary and Godelieve Gheysen
doi:10.1038/nbt.3331

The nonsensical GMO pseudo-category and a precautionary rabbit hole   pp907 - 908
Giovanni Tagliabue
doi:10.1038/nbt.3333

Contesting estimates of cryopreserved embryos in the United States   p909
Dave Snow, Alana Cattapan and Francoise Baylis
doi:10.1038/nbt.3342

Contesting estimates of cryopreserved embryos in the United States   p909
doi:10.1038/nbt.3348

Commentary

Building a business model in digital medicine   pp910 - 920
David Steinberg, Geoffrey Horwitz and Daphne Zohar
doi:10.1038/nbt.3339
Digital medicine companies can incorporate and build on existing business models in tech and biomedicine to bring transformational new products to market and eventually reshape medicine.

Unpatients—why patients should own their medical data   pp921 - 924
Leonard J Kish and Eric J Topol
doi:10.1038/nbt.3340
For the benefits of digital medicine to be fully realized, we need not only to find a shared home for personal health data but also to give individuals the right to own them.

Features

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Patents

Biotechnology patents under fire   pp925 - 926
Irena Royzman
doi:10.1038/nbt.3334
The courts' new approach not only puts the US biotech industry at a competitive disadvantage but also misapprehends the nature of innovation in biotech.

Recent patents in brain-machine interfaces   p927
doi:10.1038/nbt.3351

News and Views

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RNA structure from deep sequencing   pp928 - 929
Eric Westhof
doi:10.1038/nbt.3338
A method to identify interacting regions in a folded RNA is a step toward solving RNA structures from sequencing data.

See also: Research by Ramani et al.

Phosphoproteomics takes it easy   pp929 - 930
Paola Picotti
doi:10.1038/nbt.3345
The EasyPhos pipeline simplifies analysis of phosphorylation-dependent signaling networks at high temporal resolution.

See also: Research by Humphrey et al.

From mass cytometry to cancer prognosis   pp931 - 932
Deborah R Winter, Guy Ledergor and Ido Amit
doi:10.1038/nbt.3346
Applying social network algorithms to mass cytometry data from single cancer cells leads to more accurate predictions of patient outcomes.

Research Highlights   p932
doi:10.1038/nbt.3337

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Computational Biology

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Analysis

Prediction of human population responses to toxic compounds by a collaborative competition OPEN   pp933 - 940
Federica Eduati, Lara M Mangravite, Tao Wang, Hao Tang, J Christopher Bare et al.
doi:10.1038/nbt.3299
Crowdsourcing analysis improves computational prediction of cytotoxic responses in humans.

Research

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Perspective

Principles of nanoparticle design for overcoming biological barriers to drug delivery   pp933 - 943
Elvin Blanco, Haifa Shen and Mauro Ferrari
doi:10.1038/nbt.3330
Mauro Ferrari and colleagues discuss the biological barriers to delivery of nanoparticle therapeutics to diseased tissues. They propose that greater emphasis should be place on rational particle design that systematically takes into account these barriers.

Articles

Massively parallel high-order combinatorial genetics in human cells   pp952 - 961
Alan S L Wong, Gigi C G Choi, Allen A Cheng, Oliver Purcell and Timothy K Lu
doi:10.1038/nbt.3326
Massively parallel genetic screening reveals synergies between miRNAs regulating cancer cell proliferation and drug resistance.

Differentiation of pluripotent stem cells to muscle fiber to model Duchenne muscular dystrophy   pp962 - 969
Jerome Chal, Masayuki Oginuma, Ziad Al Tanoury, Benedicte Gobert, Olga Sumara et al.
doi:10.1038/nbt.3297
A protocol for differentiating mouse and human pluripotent stem cells into muscle.

Expansion and patterning of cardiovascular progenitors derived from human pluripotent stem cells   pp970 - 979
Matthew J Birket, Marcelo C Ribeiro, Arie O Verkerk, Dorien Ward, Ana Rita Leitoguinho et al.
doi:10.1038/nbt.3271
The development of human cardiovascular progenitor cells provides a renewable source of cardiac cell types.

Letters

High-throughput determination of RNA structure by proximity ligation   pp980 - 984
Vijay Ramani, Ruolan Qiu and Jay Shendure
doi:10.1038/nbt.3289
RNA structure is revealed by a high-throughput method that relies on proximity ligation and deep sequencing.

See also: News and Views by Westhof

Chemically modified guide RNAs enhance CRISPR-Cas genome editing in human primary cells   pp985 - 989
Ayal Hendel, Rasmus O Bak, Joseph T Clark, Andrew B Kennedy, Daniel E Ryan et al.
doi:10.1038/nbt.3290
Improved efficiency of CRISPR/Cas editing with chemically modified synthetic sgRNAs.

High-throughput phosphoproteomics reveals in vivo insulin signaling dynamics   pp990 - 995
Sean J Humphrey, S Babak Azimifar and Matthias Mann
doi:10.1038/nbt.3327
Phosphoproteomes are rapidly measured in parallel to track the dynamics of insulin signaling in the liver.

See also: News and Views by Picotti

Overexpression of receptor-like kinase ERECTA improves thermotolerance in rice and tomato   pp996 - 1003
Hui Shen, Xiangbin Zhong, Fangfang Zhao, Yanmei Wang, Bingxiao Yan et al.
doi:10.1038/nbt.3321
The heat tolerance of rice and tomato plants is increased by overexpression of the ERECTA gene.

Careers and Recruitment

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MASS AWIS: Supporting women in science for over a decade   pp1005 - 1006
Tooba Cheema and Joanne Kamens
doi:10.1038/nbt.3347
An advocacy group provides a unique opportunity for professional development that is making a difference for women in scientific and technical careers.

People

People   p1007
doi:10.1038/nbt.3352

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