Leung Lab Blog

Cancer

1. Tomasetti C, Vogelstein B. Cancer etiology. Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions. Science. 2015 Jan 2;347(6217):78-81. doi: 10.1126/science.1260825. PubMed PMID: 25554788.
   • Commentary: Wodarz D, Zauber AG. Cancer: Risk factors and random chances. Nature. 2015 Jan 29;517(7536):563-4. doi: 10.1038/517563a. PubMed PMID: 25631443.
   • Commentary: Couzin-Frankel J. Biomedicine. The bad luck of cancer. Science. 2015 Jan 2;347(6217):12. doi: 10.1126/science.347.6217.12. PubMed PMID: 25554767.
   • News coverage: The simple math that explains why you may (or may not) get cancer
   • News coverage: Bad luck and cancer: A science reporter’s reflections on a controversial story

Zebrafish

1. Kok FO, Shin M, Ni CW, Gupta A, Grosse AS, van Impel A, Kirchmaier BC, Peterson-Maduro J, Kourkoulis G, Male I, DeSantis DF, Sheppard-Tindell S, Ebarasi L, Betsholtz C, Schulte-Merker S, Wolfe SA, Lawson ND. Reverse Genetic Screening Reveals Poor Correlation between Morpholino-Induced and Mutant Phenotypes in Zebrafish. Dev Cell. 2015 Jan 12;32(1):97-108. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.11.018. Epub 2014 Dec 18. PubMed PMID: 25533206.

Imaging

1. Callaway E. Blown-up brains reveal nanoscale details. Nature. 2015 Jan 15;517(7534):254. doi: 10.1038/nature.2015.16667. PubMed PMID: 25592513.

Genetics

1. Gurdasani D, Carstensen T, Tekola-Ayele F, Pagani L, Tachmazidou I, Hatzikotoulas K, Karthikeyan S, Iles L, Pollard MO, Choudhury A, Ritchie GR, Xue Y, Asimit J, Nsubuga RN, Young EH, Pomilla C, Kivinen K, Rockett K, Kamali A, Doumatey AP, Asiki G, Seeley J, Sisay-Joof F, Jallow M, Tollman S, Mekonnen E, Ekong R, Oljira T, Bradman N, Bojang K, Ramsay M, Adeyemo A, Bekele E, Motala A, Norris SA, Pirie F, Kaleebu P, Kwiatkowski D, Tyler-Smith C, Rotimi C, Zeggini E, Sandhu MS. The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa. Nature. 2015 Jan 15;517(7534):327-32. doi: 10.1038/nature13997. Epub 2014 Dec 3. PubMed PMID: 25470054; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4297536.
2. Jens M, Rajewsky N. Competition between target sites of regulators shapes post-transcriptional gene regulation. Nat Rev Genet. 2015 Feb;16(2):113-26. doi: 10.1038/nrg3853. Epub 2014 Dec 9. PubMed PMID: 25488579.
3. Ritchie MD, Holzinger ER, Li R, Pendergrass SA, Kim D. Methods of integrating data to uncover genotype-phenotype interactions. Nat Rev Genet. 2015 Feb;16(2):85-97. doi: 10.1038/nrg3868. Epub 2015 Jan 13. PubMed PMID: 25582081.

Genome-editing

1. Zalatan JG, Lee ME, Almeida R, Gilbert LA, Whitehead EH, La Russa M, Tsai JC, Weissman JS, Dueber JE, Qi LS, Lim WA. Engineering Complex Synthetic Transcriptional Programs with CRISPR RNA Scaffolds. Cell. 2015 Jan 15;160(1-2):339-50. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.11.052. Epub 2014 Dec 18. PubMed PMID: 25533786; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4297522.

Development

1. Singh AP, Nüsslein-Volhard C. Zebrafish Stripes as a Model for Vertebrate Colour Pattern Formation. Curr Biol. 2015 Jan 19;25(2):R81-R92. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.013. Review. PubMed PMID: 25602311.
2. Hiscock TW, Megason SG. Mathematically guided approaches to distinguish models of periodic patterning. Development. 2015 Feb 1;142(3):409-419. Review. PubMed PMID: 25605777; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4302999.