Leung Lab Blog

Genomics

1. Bintu L, Yong J, Antebi YE, McCue K, Kazuki Y, Uno N, Oshimura M, Elowitz MB. Dynamics of epigenetic regulation at the single-cell level. Science. 2016 Feb 12;351(6274):720-4. doi: 10.1126/science.aab2956. PubMed PMID: 26912859.
   • Commentary: Keung AJ, Khalil AS. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. A unifying model of epigenetic regulation. Science. 2016 Feb 12;351(6274):661-2. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf1647. PubMed PMID: 26912843.
2. Cahan P. Enabling direct fate conversion with network biology. Nat Genet. 2016 Feb 24;48(3):226-7. doi: 10.1038/ng.3516. PubMed PMID: 26906680.
3. Rackham OJ, Firas J, Fang H, Oates ME, Holmes ML, Knaupp AS; FANTOM Consortium, Suzuki H, Nefzger CM, Daub CO, Shin JW, Petretto E, Forrest AR, Hayashizaki Y, Polo JM, Gough J. A predictive computational framework for direct reprogramming between human cell types. Nat Genet. 2016 Jan 18. doi: 10.1038/ng.3487. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26780608.
4. Savova V, Chun S, Sohail M, McCole RB, Witwicki R, Gai L, Lenz TL, Wu CT, Sunyaev SR, Gimelbrant AA. Genes with monoallelic expression contribute disproportionately to genetic diversity in humans. Nat Genet. 2016 Jan 25. doi: 10.1038/ng.3493. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26808112.
5. Gusev A, Ko A, Shi H, Bhatia G, Chung W, Penninx BW, Jansen R, de Geus EJ, Boomsma DI, Wright FA, Sullivan PF, Nikkola E, Alvarez M, Civelek M, Lusis AJ, Lehtimäki T, Raitoharju E, Kähönen M, Seppälä I, Raitakari OT, Kuusisto J, Laakso M, Price AL, Pajukanta P, Pasaniuc B. Integrative approaches for large-scale transcriptome-wide association studies. Nat Genet. 2016 Feb 8. doi: 10.1038/ng.3506. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26854917.

Development

1. Aggarwal V, Dickinson RB, Lele TP. Concentration Sensing by the Moving Nucleus in Cell Fate Determination: A Computational Analysis. PLoS One. 2016 Feb 12;11(2):e0149213. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149213. eCollection 2016. PubMed PMID: 26872214.
2. Rackham OJ, Firas J, Fang H, Oates ME, Holmes ML, Knaupp AS; FANTOM Consortium, Suzuki H, Nefzger CM, Daub CO, Shin JW, Petretto E, Forrest AR, Hayashizaki Y, Polo JM, Gough J. A predictive computational framework for direct reprogramming between human cell types. Nat Genet. 2016 Jan 18. doi: 10.1038/ng.3487. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26780608.

Molecular Biology

1. Burgers PM, Gordenin D, Kunkel TA. Who Is Leading the Replication Fork, Pol ε or Pol δ? Mol Cell. 2016 Feb 18;61(4):492-3. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.01.017. PubMed PMID: 26895421.
2. Johnson RE, Klassen R, Prakash L, Prakash S. Response to Burgers et al. Mol Cell. 2016 Feb 18;61(4):494-5. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.01.018. PubMed PMID: 26895422.

Funding

1.  Vachelard J, Gambarra-Soares T, Augustini G, Riul P, Maracaja-Coutinho V. A Guide to Scientific Crowdfunding. PLoS Biol. 2016 Feb 17;14(2):e1002373. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002373. eCollection 2016 Feb. PubMed PMID: 26886064.

Genome editing

1. Tai DJ, Ragavendran A, Manavalan P, Stortchevoi A, Seabra CM, Erdin S, Collins RL, Blumenthal I, Chen X, Shen Y, Sahin M, Zhang C, Lee C, Gusella JF, Talkowski ME. Engineering microdeletions and microduplications by targeting segmental duplications with CRISPR. Nat Neurosci. 2016 Feb 1. doi: 10.1038/nn.4235. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26829649.
   

Behaviour

1. Scott CA, Marsden AN, Slusarski DC. Automated, high-throughput, in vivo analysis of visual function using the zebrafish. Dev Dyn. 2016 Feb 18. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.24398. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26890697.

Stem cells

1. Fatehullah A, Tan SH, Barker N. Organoids as an in vitro model of human development and disease. Nat Cell Biol. 2016 Feb 25;18(3):246-54. doi: 10.1038/ncb3312. Review. PubMed PMID: 26911908.
2. Wang Y, Gao S. Human Naive Embryonic Stem Cells: How Full Is the Glass? Cell Stem Cell. 2016 Mar 3;18(3):301-3. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2016.02.012. PubMed PMID: 26942847.
3. Pastor WA, Chen D, Liu W, Kim R, Sahakyan A, Lukianchikov A, Plath K, Jacobsen SE, Clark AT. Naive Human Pluripotent Cells Feature a Methylation Landscape Devoid of Blastocyst or Germline Memory. Cell Stem Cell. 2016 Mar 3;18(3):323-9. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2016.01.019. Epub 2016 Feb 4. PubMed PMID: 26853856; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4779431.
4. Passier R, Orlova V, Mummery C. Complex Tissue and Disease Modeling using hiPSCs. Cell Stem Cell. 2016 Mar 3;18(3):309-21. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2016.02.011. Review. PubMed PMID: 26942851.
5. Orlova V, Mummery C. SnapShot: Key Advances in hiPSC Disease Modeling. Cell Stem Cell. 2016 Mar 3;18(3):422. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2016.02.013. PubMed PMID: 26942854.
6. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol; Focus on: Pluripotent Stem cells

Medicine

1. Peplow M. Synthetic biology’s first malaria drug meets market resistance. Nature. 2016 Feb 25;530(7591):389-90. doi: 10.1038/530390a. PubMed PMID: 26911755.

Genome editing

1. Hayes RP, Xiao Y, Ding F, van Erp PB, Rajashankar K, Bailey S, Wiedenheft B, Ke A. Structural basis for promiscuous PAM recognition in type I-E Cascade from E. coli. Nature. 2016 Feb 10. doi: 10.1038/nature16995. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26863189.