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2010-11-06 Articles we read this week

Immunity

  1. Mallery DL, McEwan WA, Bidgood SR, Towers GJ, Johnson CM, James LC. Antibodies mediate intracellular immunity through tripartite motif-containing 21 (TRIM21). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Nov 2. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21045130.

Medicine

  1. Zrenner E, Bartz-Schmidt KU, Benav H, Besch D, Bruckmann A, Gabel VP, Gekeler F, Greppmaier U, Harscher A, Kibbel S, Koch J, Kusnyerik A, Peters T, Stingl K, Sachs H, Stett A, Szurman P, Wilhelm B, Wilke R. Subretinal electronic chips allow blind patients to read letters and combine them to words. Proc Biol Sci. 2010 Nov 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21047851.]

Gene regulatory network

  1. Kuo D, Licon K, Bandyopadhyay S, Chuang R, Luo C, Catalana J, Ravasi T, Tan K, Ideker T.   Coevolution within a transcriptional network by compensatory trans and cis mutations. Genome Res. 2010 Oct 26;. [Epub ahead of print]

Genomics

  1. Human genome: Genomes by the thousand. Nature. 2010 Oct 28;467(7319):1026-7. PubMed PMID: 20981067.
  2. Nielsen R. Genomics: In search of rare human variants. Nature. 2010 Oct 28;467(7319):1050-1. PubMed PMID: 20981085.
  3. Luebeck EG. Cancer: Genomic evolution of metastasis. Nature. 2010 Oct 28;467(7319):1053-5. PubMed PMID: 20981088.
  4. 1000 Genomes Project Consortium, Durbin RM, Abecasis GR, Altshuler DL, Auton A, Brooks LD, Durbin RM, Gibbs RA, Hurles ME, McVean GA. A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing. Nature. 2010 Oct 28;467(7319):1061-73. PubMed PMID: 20981092.
  5. Lane N, Martin W. The energetics of genome complexity. Nature. 2010 Oct 21;467(7318):929-34. PubMed PMID: 20962839.

Development

  1. Varner VD, Voronov DA, Taber LA. Mechanics of head fold formation: investigating tissue-level forces during early development. Development. 2010 Nov;137(22):3801-11. Epub 2010 Oct 7. PubMed PMID: 20929950.

Retina

  1. Curcio CA, Sloan KR, Kalina RE, Hendrickson AE. Human photoreceptor topography. J Comp Neurol. 1990 Feb 22;292(4):497-523. PubMed PMID: 2324310.

Behaviour

  1. Cachat J, Stewart A, Grossman L, Gaikwad S, Kadri F, Chung KM, Wu N, Wong K, Roy S, Suciu C, Goodspeed J, Elegante M, Bartels B, Elkhayat S, Tien D, Tan J, Denmark A, Gilder T, Kyzar E, Dileo J, Frank K, Chang K, Utterback E, Hart P, Kalueff AV. Measuring behavioral and endocrine responses to novelty stress in adult zebrafish. Nat Protoc. 2010 Oct;5(11):1786-99. Epub 2010 Oct 14. PubMed PMID: 21030954.

Neuroscience

  1. Pyc MA, Rawson KA. Why testing improves memory: mediator effectiveness hypothesis. Science. 2010 Oct 15;330(6002):335. PubMed PMID: 20947756.

Imaging

  1. Ariga J, Walker SL, Mumm JS. Multicolor Time-lapse Imaging of Transgenic Zebrafish: Visualizing Retinal Stem Cells Activated by Targeted Neuronal Cell Ablation. J Vis Exp. 2010 Sep 20;(43). pii: 2093. doi: 10.3791/2093. PubMed PMID: 20972390.

Stem cells

  1. Pera MF. Defining pluripotency. Nat Methods. 2010 Nov;7(11):885-7. PubMed PMID: 21030963.
  2. Verzi MP, Shivdasani RA. Stem cells: The intestinal-crypt casino. Nature. 2010 Oct 28;467(7319):1055-6. PubMed PMID: 20981089.

Chromatin remodeling

  1. Saladi SV, Keenen B, Marathe HG, Qi H, Chin KV, de la Serna IL. Modulation of extracellular matrix/adhesion molecule expression by BRG1 is associated with increased melanoma invasiveness. Mol Cancer. 2010 Oct 22;9(1):280. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20969766.

Cdk5

  1. He L, Zhang Z, Yu Y, Ahmed S, Cheung NS, Qi RZ. The neuronal p35 activator of Cdk5 is a novel F-actin binding and bundling protein. Cell Mol Life Sci. 2010 Oct 26. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20976519.

Ethics, Society and Legal Issues

  1. Udesky L. The ethics of direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Lancet. 2010 Oct 23;376(9750):1377-8. PubMed PMID: 20979325.
  2. Macilwain C. Scientists vs engineers: this time it’s financial. Nature. 2010 Oct 21;467(7318):885. PubMed PMID: 20962798.

Funding

  1. Brumfiel G. UK science funds in limbo. Nature. 2010 Oct 21;467(7318):894. PubMed PMID: 20962813.
  2. Gilbert N. Ireland defends research from cuts. Nature. 2010 Oct 21;467(7318):895. PubMed PMID: 20962814.
This was written by Yuk Fai Leung. Posted on Saturday, November 6, 2010, at 4:37 PM. Filed under journal watch. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.