Nature MethodsPub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02794-0
Daniel Krentzel, Matouš Elphick, Marie-Charlotte Domart, Christopher J. Peddie, Romain F. Laine, Cameron Shand, Ricardo Henriques, Lucy M. Collinson, Martin L. Jones
{"title":"CLEM-Reg: an automated point cloud-based registration algorithm for volume correlative light and electron microscopy","authors":"Daniel Krentzel, Matouš Elphick, Marie-Charlotte Domart, Christopher J. Peddie, Romain F. Laine, Cameron Shand, Ricardo Henriques, Lucy M. Collinson, Martin L. Jones","doi":"10.1038/s41592-025-02794-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41592-025-02794-0","url":null,"abstract":"Volume correlative light and electron microscopy (vCLEM) is a powerful imaging technique that enables the visualization of fluorescently labeled proteins within their ultrastructural context. Currently, vCLEM alignment relies on time-consuming and subjective manual methods. This paper presents CLEM-Reg, an algorithm that automates the three-dimensional alignment of vCLEM datasets by leveraging probabilistic point cloud registration techniques. Point clouds are derived from segmentations of common structures in each modality, created by state-of-the-art open-source methods. CLEM-Reg drastically reduces the registration time of vCLEM datasets to a few minutes and achieves correlation of fluorescent signal to submicron target structures in electron microscopy on three newly acquired vCLEM benchmark datasets. CLEM-Reg was then used to automatically obtain vCLEM overlays to unambiguously identify TGN46-positive transport carriers involved in protein trafficking between the trans-Golgi network and plasma membrane. Datasets are available on EMPIAR and BioStudies, and a napari plugin is provided to aid end-user adoption. CLEM-Reg automates the three-dimensional alignment of volume correlative light and electron microscopy datasets by leveraging probabilistic point cloud registration techniques for fast and accurate results across diverse datasets.","PeriodicalId":18981,"journal":{"name":"Nature Methods","volume":"22 9","pages":"1923-1934"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12446066/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145033720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MethodsPub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02827-8
Lei Tang
{"title":"Deciphering regulatory sequence grammar","authors":"Lei Tang","doi":"10.1038/s41592-025-02827-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41592-025-02827-8","url":null,"abstract":"Leveraging data generated by UUATAC-seq, a method for cross-species chromatin accessibility profiling, the deep learning model NvwaCE deciphers cis-regulatory grammar from DNA sequence.","PeriodicalId":18981,"journal":{"name":"Nature Methods","volume":"22 9","pages":"1757-1757"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145033734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MethodsPub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02802-3
Vivien Marx
{"title":"Taming cancer evolution surprises","authors":"Vivien Marx","doi":"10.1038/s41592-025-02802-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41592-025-02802-3","url":null,"abstract":"With a focus on the evolutionary forces that shape cancer cell behavior, some researchers work out ways to outmaneuver cancer.","PeriodicalId":18981,"journal":{"name":"Nature Methods","volume":"22 9","pages":"1760-1764"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145033817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MethodsPub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02828-7
Joseph Willson
{"title":"ViSOR puts the periphery in focus","authors":"Joseph Willson","doi":"10.1038/s41592-025-02828-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41592-025-02828-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18981,"journal":{"name":"Nature Methods","volume":"22 9","pages":"1758-1758"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145033800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MethodsPub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02809-w
Scott A. Juntti
{"title":"Cichlid fishes","authors":"Scott A. Juntti","doi":"10.1038/s41592-025-02809-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41592-025-02809-w","url":null,"abstract":"Cichlid fishes are a family of thousands of recently evolved species. As charismatic laboratory models, they are useful for studying anatomical, physiological and behavioral traits that vary across these closely related species.","PeriodicalId":18981,"journal":{"name":"Nature Methods","volume":"22 9","pages":"1755-1756"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145033642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MethodsPub Date : 2025-09-08DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02798-w
Yi Chen, Wei Qian, Daniel Razansky, Xin Yu, Chunqi Qian
{"title":"WISDEM: a hybrid wireless integrated sensing detector for simultaneous EEG and MRI","authors":"Yi Chen, Wei Qian, Daniel Razansky, Xin Yu, Chunqi Qian","doi":"10.1038/s41592-025-02798-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41592-025-02798-w","url":null,"abstract":"Concurrent recording of electroencephalogram (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) signals reveals cross-scale neurovascular dynamics crucial for explaining fundamental linkages between function and behaviors. However, MRI scanners generate artifacts for EEG detection. Despite existing denoising methods, cabled connections to EEG receivers are susceptible to environmental fluctuations inside MRI scanners, creating baseline drifts that complicate EEG signal retrieval from the noisy background. Here we show that a wireless integrated sensing detector for simultaneous EEG and MRI can encode fMRI and EEG signals on distinct sidebands of the detector’s oscillation wave for detection by a standard MRI console over the entire duration of the fMRI sequence. Local field potential and fMRI maps are retrieved through low-pass and high-pass filtering of frequency-demodulated signals. From optogenetically stimulated somatosensory cortex in ChR2-transfected Sprague Dawley rats, positive correlation between evoked local field potential and fMRI signals validates strong neurovascular coupling, enabling cross-scale brain mapping with this two-in-one transducer. WISDEM is a hybrid detector for simultaneous EEG and fMRI recordings without artifacts or crosstalk, which allows access to neural activity at high temporal and spatial resolution, respectively, as demonstrated in rats.","PeriodicalId":18981,"journal":{"name":"Nature Methods","volume":"22 9","pages":"1944-1953"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12446060/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145023914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nature MethodsPub Date : 2025-09-08DOI: 10.1038/s41592-025-02799-9
Can Ergen, Valeh Valiollah Pour Amiri, Martin Kim, Ori Kronfeld, Aaron Streets, Adam Gayoso, Nir Yosef
{"title":"Scvi-hub: an actionable repository for model-driven single-cell analysis","authors":"Can Ergen, Valeh Valiollah Pour Amiri, Martin Kim, Ori Kronfeld, Aaron Streets, Adam Gayoso, Nir Yosef","doi":"10.1038/s41592-025-02799-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41592-025-02799-9","url":null,"abstract":"The growing availability of single-cell omics datasets presents new opportunities for reuse, while challenges in data transfer, normalization and integration remain a barrier. Here we present scvi-hub: a platform for efficiently sharing and accessing single-cell omics datasets using pretrained probabilistic models. It enables immediate execution of fundamental tasks like visualization, imputation, annotation and deconvolution on new query datasets using state-of-the-art methods, with massively reduced storage and compute requirements. We show that pretrained models support efficient analysis of large references, including the CZI CELLxGENE Discover Census. Scvi-hub is built within the scvi-tools open-source environment and integrated into scverse. Scvi-hub offers a scalable and user-friendly framework for accessing and contributing to a growing ecosystem of ready-to-use models and datasets, thus putting the power of atlas-level analysis at the fingertips of a broad community of users. Scvi-hub is a versatile and efficient platform for model-based analysis of single-cell sequencing studies with access to a diverse array of datasets and downstream analysis.","PeriodicalId":18981,"journal":{"name":"Nature Methods","volume":"22 9","pages":"1836-1845"},"PeriodicalIF":32.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12446071/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145023900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}