This Week in Nature: Sep 25, 2009

Sep 25, 2009

In early online publication in Nature this week, Helicos BioSciences scientists report directly sequencing single molecule RNA from Saccharomyces cerevisiae without first converting it to cDNA. The end goal of this proof-of-principle study, led by Patrice Milos, is a "comprehensive and bias-free understanding of transcriptomes," says the abstract.

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