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2011-10-08 New articles we read this week

Funding

  1. Roebber PJ, Schultz DM. Peer review, program officers and science funding. PLoS One. 2011 Apr 12;6(4):e18680. PubMed PMID: 21533268; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3075261.
    • The most interesting conclusion is – the best strategy is to submit more applications when funding rate drops below 15%.

Neuroscience

  1. Peelen MV, Kastner S. Is that a bathtub in your kitchen? Nat Neurosci. 2011 Sep 27;14(10):1224-6. doi: 10.1038/nn.2936. PubMed PMID: 21952264.

Genomics

  1. Adli M, Bernstein BE. Whole-genome chromatin profiling from limited numbers of cells using nano-ChIP-seq. Nat Protoc. 2011 Sep 29;6(10):1656-68. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2011.402. PubMed PMID: 21959244.
  2. Keller A, Leidinger P, Bauer A, Elsharawy A, Haas J, Backes C, Wendschlag A, Giese N, Tjaden C, Ott K, Werner J, Hackert T, Ruprecht K, Huwer H, Huebers J, Jacobs G, Rosenstiel P, Dommisch H, Schaefer A, Müller-Quernheim J, Wullich B, Keck B, Graf N, Reichrath J, Vogel B, Nebel A, Jager SU, Staehler P, Amarantos I, Boisguerin V, Staehler C, Beier M, Scheffler M, Büchler MW, Wischhusen J, Haeusler SF, Dietl J, Hofmann S, Lenhof HP, Schreiber S, Katus HA, Rottbauer W, Meder B, Hoheisel JD, Franke A, Meese E. Toward the blood-borne miRNome of human diseases. Nat Methods. 2011 Sep 4;8(10):841-3. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1682. PubMed PMID: 21892151.

Development/ Stem cells

  1. Friedrich Ben-Nun I, Montague SC, Houck ML, Tran HT, Garitaonandia I, Leonardo TR, Wang YC, Charter SJ, Laurent LC, Ryder OA, Loring JF. Induced pluripotent stem cells from highly endangered species. Nat Methods. 2011 Sep 4;8(10):829-31.  doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1706. PubMed PMID: 21892153.
    • Commentary: Selvaraj V, Wildt DE, Pukazhenthi BS. Induced pluripotent stem cells for conserving endangered species? Nat Methods. 2011 Sep 29;8(10):805-7. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1715. PubMed PMID: 21959133.
  2. Pera MF. The proteomes of native and induced pluripotent stem cells. Nat Methods. 2011 Sep 29;8(10):807-8. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1707. PubMed PMID: 21959134.

Genetics/ Optogenetics

  1. Toettcher JE, Gong D, Lim WA, Weiner OD. Light-based feedback for controlling intracellular signaling dynamics. Nat Methods. 2011 Sep 11;8(10):837-9. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1700. PubMed PMID: 21909100.
    • Commentary: Haugh JM. Cells see the light to bring signaling under control. Nat Methods. 2011 Sep 29;8(10):808-9. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1708. PubMed PMID: 21959135.

Imaging

  1. Ghosh KK, Burns LD, Cocker ED, Nimmerjahn A, Ziv Y, Gamal AE, Schnitzer MJ. Miniaturized integration of a fluorescence microscope. Nat Methods. 2011 Sep 11;8(10):871-8. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.1694. PubMed PMID: 21909102.

Systems Biology/ Gene Regulatory Network

  1. Foss EJ, Radulovic D, Shaffer SA, Goodlett DR, Kruglyak L, Bedalov A. Genetic Variation Shapes Protein Networks Mainly through Non-transcriptional Mechanisms. PLoS Biol. 2011 Sep;9(9):e1001144. Epub 2011 Sep 6. PubMed PMID: 21909241; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3167781.
  2. Splinter E, de Laat W. The complex transcription regulatory landscape of our genome: control in three dimensions. EMBO J. 2011 Sep 27. doi: 10.1038/emboj.2011.344. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21952046.
  3. Lynch VJ, Leclerc RD, May G, Wagner GP. Transposon-mediated rewiring of gene regulatory networks contributed to the evolution of pregnancy in mammals. Nat Genet. 2011 Sep 25. doi: 10.1038/ng.917. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID:
    21946353.
  4. Garg A, Mohanram K, De Micheli G, Xenarios I. Implicit methods for qualitative modeling of gene regulatory networks. Methods Mol Biol. 2012;786:397-443. PubMed PMID: 21938638.

Brg1

  1. Hu G, Schones DE, Cui K, Ybarra R, Northrup D, Tang Q, Gattinoni L, Restifo NP, Huang S, Zhao K. Regulation of nucleosome landscape and transcription factor targeting at tissue-specific enhancers by BRG1. Genome Res. 2011 Aug 31. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21795385.

Retina

  1. Qin Z, Kidd AR 3rd, Thomas JL, Poss KD, Hyde DR, Raymond PA, Thummel R. FGF signaling regulates rod photoreceptor cell maintenance and regeneration in zebrafish. Exp Eye Res. 2011 Sep 17. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21945172.
  2. Dal Molin M, Hong SM, Hebbar S, Sharma R, Scrimieri F, de Wilde R, Mayo SC, Goggins M, Wolfgang CL, Schulick RD, Lin MT, Eshleman JR, Hruban RH, Maitra A, Matthaei H. Loss of expression of the SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling subunit
    BRG1/SMARCA4 is frequently observed in intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms of the pancreas. Hum Pathol. 2011 Sep 20. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21940037.

Virology

  1. Cohen J, Enserink M. Virology. False positive. Science. 2011 Sep 23;333(6050):1694-701. PubMed PMID: 21940874.

Material Science

  1. Nosonovsky M. Materials science: slippery when wetted. Nature. 2011 Sep 21;477(7365):412-3. doi: 10.1038/477412a. PubMed PMID: 21938059.

Synthetic Biology

  1. Enyeart PJ, Ellington AD. Synthetic biology: a yeast for all reasons. Nature. 2011 Sep 21;477(7365):413-4. doi: 10.1038/477413a. PubMed PMID: 21938060.

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