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Aug 04, 2009

Nature Methods is now taking nominations and votes for the 2009 Method of the Year. Head on over here to submit your favorite method or class of methods for consideration. Nature Methods says you can submit a method published anywhere and even one you developed yourself, as long as you say it's yours. Leading the pack right now is induced pluripotency. The 2008 winner was super-resolution imaging and the 2007 one was next-generation sequencing.

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New Study Investigates Genomics of Fanconi Anemia Repair Pathway in Cancer

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