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  • Multiple structures of RNA polymerase II isolated from human nuclei by ChIP-CryoEM analysis

    Multiple structures of RNA polymerase II isolated from human nuclei by ChIP-CryoEM analysis

    Purification of RNA polymerase II complexes in HeLa cell nuclei

    The HeLa cell line expressing hexahistidine-FLAG-tagged RPB3 was established previously35, and tagged RPB3 expression was confirmed by western blot, using an anti-RPB3 antibody…

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  • Basal ganglia deep brain stimulation restores cognitive flexibility and exploration-exploitation balance disrupted by NMDA-R antagonism

    Basal ganglia deep brain stimulation restores cognitive flexibility and exploration-exploitation balance disrupted by NMDA-R antagonism

    Naïve behavior and associated neural activity patterns

    Two NHPs were trained to acquire and reacquire their response to novel visual cues in a between-block design (Fig. 1b). First, they had to identify the spatial cue associated with the reward…

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  • BIT: Bayesian Identification of Transcriptional regulators from epigenomics-based query region sets

    BIT: Bayesian Identification of Transcriptional regulators from epigenomics-based query region sets

    The integration of epigenomic profiling data has proven to be a feasible approach for identifying TRs in biomedical research24,35,36. It is well recognized that the binding sites of TRs critical to a specific biological process are primarily…

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  • De novo CDKN1C variant in Beckwith–Wiedermann spectrum with atypical complications

    De novo CDKN1C variant in Beckwith–Wiedermann spectrum with atypical complications

    Beckwith–Wiedemann spectrum (BWSp) encompasses a range of clinical manifestations caused by genetic and epigenetic alterations at chromosome 11p15.5. Patients with a clinical diagnosis of…

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  • High-resolution imaging of RNA and proteins in thick tissues using cycleHCR

    High-resolution imaging of RNA and proteins in thick tissues using cycleHCR

    Competing interests

    Z.J.L. is named as co-inventors on a patent application titled ‘Methods and compositions for imaging RNA and protein targets in biological specimens’, application number…

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  • Computational and biological modeling of IGF1R inhibition for multifocal medulloblastoma

    Computational and biological modeling of IGF1R inhibition for multifocal medulloblastoma

    Cell lines

    D425 has been previously reported11 and was obtained from the Bigner Lab. D425 was cultured in Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) (cat#11965092, Thermo Fisher Gibco, Waltham, MA) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS)…

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