Leung Lab Blog

Genome-editing

1. Niewoehner O, Garcia-Doval C, Rostøl JT, Berk C, Schwede F, Bigler L, Hall J, Marraffini LA, Jinek M. Type III CRISPR-Cas systems produce cyclic oligoadenylate second messengers. Nature. 2017 Aug 31;548(7669):543-548. doi:10.1038/nature23467. Epub 2017 Jul 19. PubMed PMID: 28722012.
2. Johnson K, Bailey S. Microbiology: The case of the mysterious messenger. Nature. 2017 Aug 31;548(7669):527-528. doi: 10.1038/nature23532. Epub 2017 Aug 2. PubMed PMID: 28783729.
3. Jain A, Zode G, Kasetti RB, Ran FA, Yan W, Sharma TP, Bugge K, Searby CC, Fingert JH, Zhang F, Clark AF, Sheffield VC. CRISPR-Cas9-based treatment of myocilin-associated glaucoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Oct 17;114(42):11199-11204. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1706193114. Epub 2017 Oct 2. PubMed PMID: 28973933; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5651749.

Molecular biology

1. García-López V, Chen F, Nilewski LG, Duret G, Aliyan A, Kolomeisky AB, Robinson JT, Wang G, Pal R, Tour JM. Molecular machines open cell membranes. Nature. 2017 Aug 30;548(7669):567-572. doi: 10.1038/nature23657. PubMed PMID: 28858304.

Development

1. Liang J, Balachandra S, Ngo S, O’Brien LE. Feedback regulation of steady-state epithelial turnover and organ size. Nature. 2017 Aug 31;548(7669):588-591. doi: 10.1038/nature23678. Epub 2017 Aug 23. PubMed PMID: 28847000.
2. Fernandes VM, Chen Z, Rossi AM, Zipfel J, Desplan C. Glia relay differentiation cues to coordinate neuronal development in Drosophila. Science. 2017 Sep 1;357(6354):886-891. doi: 10.1126/science.aan3174. PubMed PMID: 28860380.
3. Boudreau-Pinsonneault C, Cayouette M. Cell lineage tracing in the retina: Could material transfer distort conclusions? Dev Dyn. 2018 Jan;247(1):10-17. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.24535. Epub 2017 Jul 13. PubMed PMID: 28643368.

Stem cells

1. Kikuchi T, Morizane A, Doi D, Magotani H, Onoe H, Hayashi T, Mizuma H, Takara S, Takahashi R, Inoue H, Morita S, Yamamoto M, Okita K, Nakagawa M, Parmar M, Takahashi J. Human iPS cell-derived dopaminergic neurons function in a primate Parkinson’s disease model. Nature. 2017 Aug 30;548(7669):592-596. doi: 10.1038/nature23664. PubMed PMID: 28858313.
2. Hirota T, Ohta H, Powell BE, Mahadevaiah SK, Ojarikre OA, Saitou M, Turner JMA. Fertile offspring from sterile sex chromosome trisomic mice. Science. 2017 Sep 1;357(6354):932-935. doi: 10.1126/science.aam9046. Epub 2017 Aug 17. PubMed PMID: 28818972; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5581950.
3. Blanchard JW, Xie J, El-Mecharrafie N, Gross S, Lee S, Lerner RA, Baldwin KK. Replacing reprogramming factors with antibodies selected from combinatorial antibody libraries. Nat Biotechnol. 2017 Oct;35(10):960-968. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3963. Epub 2017 Sep 11. PubMed PMID: 28892074.

Eye diseases

1. Thorn RJ, Clift DE, Ojo O, Colwill RM, Creton R. The loss and recovery of vertebrate vision examined in microplates. PLoS One. 2017 Aug 17;12(8):e0183414. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183414. eCollection 2017. PubMed PMID: 28817700; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5560659.
2. Jain A, Zode G, Kasetti RB, Ran FA, Yan W, Sharma TP, Bugge K, Searby CC, Fingert JH, Zhang F, Clark AF, Sheffield VC. CRISPR-Cas9-based treatment of myocilin-associated glaucoma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Oct 17;114(42):11199-11204. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1706193114. Epub 2017 Oct 2. PubMed PMID: 28973933; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5651749.

Vision

1. Stowers JR, Hofbauer M, Bastien R, Griessner J, Higgins P, Farooqui S, Fischer RM, Nowikovsky K, Haubensak W, Couzin ID, Tessmar-Raible K, Straw AD. Virtual reality for freely moving animals. Nat Methods. 2017 Aug 21. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.4399. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28825703.

Education

1. Silva HM. Intelligent design endangers education. Science. 2017 Sep 1;357(6354):880. doi: 10.1126/science.aao3245. PubMed PMID: 28860376.

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