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2016-01-11 new articles we read this week

Development

  1. Eom DS, Bain EJ, Patterson LB, Grout ME, Parichy DM. Long-distance communication by specialized cellular projections during pigment pattern development and evolution. Elife. 2015 Dec 23;4. pii: e12401. doi: 10.7554/eLife.12401. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26701906.

Stem cells

  1. Shirai H, Mandai M, Matsushita K, Kuwahara A, Yonemura S, Nakano T, Assawachananont J, Kimura T, Saito K, Terasaki H, Eiraku M, Sasai Y, Takahashi M. Transplantation of human embryonic stem cell-derived retinal tissue in two primate models of retinal degeneration. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Dec 22. pii: 201512590. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26699487.

Zebrafish

  1. Stapel LC, Lombardot B, Broaddus C, Kainmueller D, Jug F, Myers EW, Vastenhouw NL. Automated detection and quantification of single RNAs at cellular resolution in zebrafish embryos. Development. 2015 Dec 23. pii: dev.128918. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26700682.

Genome editing

  1. Shmakov S, Abudayyeh OO, Makarova KS, Wolf YI, Gootenberg JS, Semenova E, Minakhin L, Joung J, Konermann S, Severinov K, Zhang F, Koonin EV. Discovery and Functional Characterization of Diverse Class 2 CRISPR-Cas Systems. Mol Cell. 2015 Nov 5;60(3):385-97. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2015.10.008. Epub 2015 Oct 22. PubMed PMID: 26593719; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4660269.
  2. Bolukbasi MF, Gupta A, Wolfe SA. Creating and evaluating accurate CRISPR-Cas9 scalpels for genomic surgery. Nat Methods. 2015 Dec 30;13(1):41-50. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.3684. PubMed PMID: 26716561.
  3. Kleinstiver BP, Pattanayak V, Prew MS, Tsai SQ, Nguyen NT, Zheng Z, Keith Joung J. High-fidelity CRISPR-Cas9 nucleases with no detectable genome-wide off-target effects. Nature. 2016 Jan 6. doi: 10.1038/nature16526. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26735016.
  4. Dominguez AA, Lim WA, Qi LS. Beyond editing: repurposing CRISPR-Cas9 for precision genome regulation and interrogation. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2016 Jan;17(1):5-15. doi: 10.1038/nrm.2015.2. Epub 2015 Dec 16. PubMed PMID: 26670017.
  5. Tabebordbar M, Zhu K, Cheng JK, Chew WL, Widrick JJ, Yan WX, Maesner C, Wu EY, Xiao R, Ran FA, Cong L, Zhang F, Vandenberghe LH, Church GM, Wagers AJ. In vivo gene editing in dystrophic mouse muscle and muscle stem cells. Science. 2015 Dec 31. pii: aad5177. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26721686.
  6. Nelson CE, Hakim CH, Ousterout DG, Thakore PI, Moreb EA, Rivera RM, Madhavan S, Pan X, Ran FA, Yan WX, Asokan A, Zhang F, Duan D, Gersbach CA. In vivo genome editing improves muscle function in a mouse model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Science. 2015 Dec 31. pii: aad5143. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26721684.
  7. Long C, Amoasii L, Mireault AA, McAnally JR, Li H, Sanchez-Ortiz E, Bhattacharyya S, Shelton JM, Bassel-Duby R, Olson EN. Postnatal genome editing partially restores dystrophin expression in a mouse model of muscular dystrophy. Science. 2015 Dec 31. pii: aad5725. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26721683.

Neuroscience

  1. Paonessa F, Criscuolo S, Sacchetti S, Amoroso D, Scarongella H, Pecoraro Bisogni F, Carminati E, Pruzzo G, Maragliano L, Cesca F, Benfenati F. Regulation of neural gene transcription by optogenetic inhibition of the RE1-silencing transcription factor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Dec 23. pii: 201507355. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26699507.

Imaging

  1. Tomer R, Lovett-Barron M, Kauvar I, Andalman A, Burns VM, Sankaran S, Grosenick L, Broxton M, Yang S, Deisseroth K. SPED Light Sheet Microscopy: Fast Mapping of Biological System Structure and Function. Cell. 2015 Dec 17;163(7):1796-806. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.11.061. PubMed PMID: 26687363.