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2010-09-25 New articles we read this week

Genetics and Genomics

  1. Heard E, Tishkoff S, Todd JA, Vidal M, Wagner GP, Wang J, Weigel D, Young R. Ten years of genetics and genomics: what have we achieved and where are we heading? Nat Rev Genet. 2010 Oct;11(10):723-733. Epub 2010 Sep 7. PubMed PMID: 20820184.

Gene therapy

  1. Persons DA. Gene therapy: Targeting β-thalassaemia. Nature. 2010 Sep 16;467(7313):277-8. PubMed PMID: 20844523.
  2. Cavazzana-Calvo M, Payen E, Negre O, Wang G, Hehir K, Fusil F, Down J, Denaro M, Brady T, Westerman K, Cavallesco R, Gillet-Legrand B, Caccavelli L, Sgarra R, Maouche-Chrétien L, Bernaudin F, Girot R, Dorazio R, Mulder GJ, Polack A, Bank A, Soulier J, Larghero J, Kabbara N, Dalle B, Gourmel B, Socie G, Chrétien S, Cartier N, Aubourg P, Fischer A, Cornetta K, Galacteros F, Beuzard Y, Gluckman E, Bushman F, Hacein-Bey-Abina S, Leboulch P. Transfusion independence and HMGA2 activation after gene therapy of human β-thalassaemia. Nature. 2010 Sep 16;467(7313):318-22. PubMed PMID: 20844535.

Imaging

  1. Watanabe K, Nishimura Y, Oka T, Nomoto T, Kon T, Shintou T, Hirano M, Shimada Y, Umemoto N, Kuroyanagi J, Wang Z, Zhang Z, Nishimura N, Miyazaki T, Imamura T, Tanaka T. In vivo imaging of zebrafish retinal cells using fluorescent coumarin derivatives. BMC Neurosci. 2010 Sep 15;11:116. PubMed PMID: 20843315.

Neuroscience

  1. Williams PR, Suzuki SC, Yoshimatsu T, Lawrence OT, Waldron SJ, Parsons MJ, Nonet ML, Wong RO.
    In vivo development of outer retinal synapses in the absence of glial contact. J Neurosci. 2010 Sep 8;30(36):11951-61. PMID: 20826659

Stem cells

  1. Zwaka TP. Stem cells: Troublesome memories. Nature. 2010 Sep 16;467(7313):280-1. PubMed PMID: 20844526.
  2. Kim K, Doi A, Wen B, Ng K, Zhao R, Cahan P, Kim J, Aryee MJ, Ji H, Ehrlich LI, Yabuuchi A, Takeuchi A, Cunniff KC, Hongguang H, McKinney-Freeman S, Naveiras O,  Yoon TJ, Irizarry RA, Jung N, Seita J, Hanna J, Murakami P, Jaenisch R, Weissleder R, Orkin SH, Weissman IL, Feinberg AP, Daley GQ. Epigenetic memory in  induced pluripotent stem cells. Nature. 2010 Sep 16;467(7313):285-90. PubMed PMID: 20644535.
  3. Ji H, Ehrlich LI, Seita J, Murakami P, Doi A, Lindau P, Lee H, Aryee MJ, Irizarry RA, Kim K, Rossi DJ, Inlay MA, Serwold T, Karsunky H, Ho L, Daley GQ, Weissman IL, Feinberg AP. Comprehensive methylome map of lineage commitment from haematopoietic progenitors. Nature. 2010 Sep 16;467(7313):338-42. Epub 2010 Aug 15. PubMed PMID: 20720541.
  4. Aguirre A, Rubio ME, Gallo V. Notch and EGFR pathway interaction regulates neural stem cell number and self-renewal. Nature. 2010 Sep 16;467(7313):323-7. PubMed PMID: 20844536; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2941915.

Zebrafish

  1. Van Otterloo E, Li W, Bonde G, Day KM, Hsu MY, Cornell RA. Differentiation of zebrafish melanophores depends on transcription factors AP2 alpha and AP2 epsilon. PLoS Genet. 2010 Sep 16;6(9). pii: e1001122. PubMed PMID: 20862309.
  2. Maurer CM, Schönthaler HB, Mueller KP, Neuhauss SC.  Distinct retinal deficits in a zebrafish pyruvate dehydrogenase-deficient mutant. J Neurosci. 2010 Sep 8;30(36):11962-72. PMID: 20826660
  3. Gavriouchkina D, Fischer S, Ivacevic T, Stolte J, Benes V, Dekens MP. Thyrotroph embryonic factor regulates light-induced transcription of repair genes in zebrafish embryonic cells. PLoS One. 2010 Sep 7;5(9):e12542. PubMed PMID: 20830285; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2935359.