Leung Lab Blog

ELSI

1. Shotton D. Funders should mandate open citations. Nature. 2018 Jan 11;553(7687):129. doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-00104-7. PubMed PMID: 29323317.
2. Lavazza A, Massimini M. Cerebral organoids: ethical issues and consciousness assessment. J Med Ethics. 2018 Feb 28. pii: medethics-2017-104555. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2017-104555. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29491041.

Genome Editing

1. Gao X, Tao Y, Lamas V, Huang M, Yeh WH, Pan B, Hu YJ, Hu JH, Thompson DB, Shu Y, Li Y, Wang H, Yang S, Xu Q, Polley DB, Liberman MC, Kong WJ, Holt JR, Chen ZY, Liu DR. Treatment of autosomal dominant hearing loss by in vivo delivery of genome editing agents. Nature. 2018 Jan 11;553(7687):217-221. doi: 10.1038/nature25164. Epub 2017 Dec 20. PubMed PMID: 29258297.
2. Urnov F. An ode to gene edits that prevent deafness. Nature. 2018 Jan 11;553(7687):162-163. doi: 10.1038/d41586-017-08645-z. PubMed PMID: 29323325.

Development

1. Nowoshilow S, Schloissnig S, Fei JF, Dahl A, Pang AWC, Pippel M, Winkler S, Hastie AR, Young G, Roscito JG, Falcon F, Knapp D, Powell S, Cruz A, Cao H, Habermann B, Hiller M, Tanaka EM, Myers EW. The axolotl genome and the evolution of key tissue formation regulators. Nature. 2018 Jan 24. doi: 10.1038/nature25458. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29364872.
2. Harland RM. A new view of embryo development and regeneration. Science. 2018 Jun 1;360(6392):967-968. doi: 10.1126/science.aat8413. PubMed PMID: 29853675.
3. Rozario T, Newmark PA. Prospecting for Planarian Pluripotency. Cell. 2018 Jun 14;173(7):1566-1567. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.05.062. PubMed PMID: 29906442.
4. Zeng A, Li H, Guo L, Gao X, McKinney S, Wang Y, Yu Z, Park J, Semerad C, Ross E, Cheng LC, Davies E, Lei K, Wang W, Perera A, Hall K, Peak A, Box A, Sánchez Alvarado A. Prospectively Isolated Tetraspanin(+) Neoblasts Are Adult Pluripotent Stem Cells Underlying Planaria Regeneration. Cell. 2018 Jun 14;173(7):1593-1608.e20. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.05.006. PubMed PMID: 29906446.

Stem cells

1. Cyranoski D. How human embryonic stem cells sparked a revolution. Nature. 2018 Mar 22;555(7697):428-430. doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-03268-4. PubMed PMID: 29565377.
2. da Cruz L, Fynes K, Georgiadis O, Kerby J, Luo YH, Ahmado A, Vernon A, Daniels JT, Nommiste B, Hasan SM, Gooljar SB, Carr AF, Vugler A, Ramsden CM, Bictash M, Fenster M, Steer J, Harbinson T, Wilbrey A, Tufail A, Feng G, Whitlock M, Robson AG, Holder GE, Sagoo MS, Loudon PT, Whiting P, Coffey PJ. Phase 1 clinical study of an embryonic stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelium patch in age-related macular degeneration. Nat Biotechnol. 2018 Mar 19. doi: 10.1038/nbt.4114. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29553577.

Neuroscience

1. Telley L, Jabaudon D. A mixed model of neuronal diversity. Nature. 2018 Mar 22;555(7697):452-454. doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-02539-4. PubMed PMID: 29565398. Science career
2. Powell K. How to sail smoothly from academia to industry. Nature. 2018 Mar 22;555(7697):549-551. doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-03306-1. PubMed PMID: 29565380.

Microbiology

1. Doron S, Melamed S, Ofir G, Leavitt A, Lopatina A, Keren M, Amitai G, Sorek R. Systematic discovery of antiphage defense systems in the microbial pangenome. Science. 2018 Mar 2;359(6379). pii: eaar4120. doi: 10.1126/science.aar4120. Epub 2018 Jan 25. PubMed PMID: 29371424.
2. Pushkarev A, Inoue K, Larom S, Flores-Uribe J, Singh M, Konno M, Tomida S, Ito S, Nakamura R, Tsunoda SP, Philosof A, Sharon I, Yutin N, Koonin EV, Kandori H, Béjà O. A distinct abundant group of microbial rhodopsins discovered using functional metagenomics. Nature. 2018 Jun 20. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0225-9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29925949.

Evolution

1. Riddle MR, Aspiras AC, Gaudenz K, Peuß R, Sung JY, Martineau B, Peavey M, Box AC, Tabin JA, McGaugh S, Borowsky R, Tabin CJ, Rohner N. Insulin resistance in cavefish as an adaptation to a nutrient-limited environment. Nature. 2018 Mar 29;555(7698):647-651. doi: 10.1038/nature26136. Epub 2018 Mar 21. PubMed PMID: 29562229; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5989729.

Neuroscience

1. Weinhard L, di Bartolomei G, Bolasco G, Machado P, Schieber NL, Neniskyte U, Exiga M, Vadisiute A, Raggioli A, Schertel A, Schwab Y, Gross CT. Microglia remodel synapses by presynaptic trogocytosis and spine head filopodia induction.  Nat Commun. 2018 Mar 26;9(1):1228. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03566-5. PubMed PMID: 29581545; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5964317.
2. Van Essen DC. Scaling of human brain size. Science. 2018 Jun 15;360(6394):1184-1185. doi: 10.1126/science.aat8948. PubMed PMID: 29903961.
3. Reardon PK, Seidlitz J, Vandekar S, Liu S, Patel R, Park MTM, Alexander-Bloch A, Clasen LS, Blumenthal JD, Lalonde FM, Giedd JN, Gur RC, Gur RE, Lerch JP, Chakravarty MM, Satterthwaite TD, Shinohara RT, Raznahan A. Normative brain size variation and brain shape diversity in humans. Science. 2018 Jun 15;360(6394):1222-1227. doi: 10.1126/science.aar2578. Epub 2018 May 31. PubMed PMID: 29853553.

Genetics

1.  Brainstorm Consortium et al., Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain. Science. 2018 Jun 22;360(6395). pii: eaap8757. doi: 10.1126/science.aap8757. PubMed PMID: 29930110.
2. Wray NR, Wijmenga C, Sullivan PF, Yang J, Visscher PM. Common Disease Is More Complex Than Implied by the Core Gene Omnigenic Model. Cell. 2018 Jun 14;173(7):1573-1580. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.05.051. Review. PubMed PMID: 29906445.

Cell Biology

1. Ota S, Horisaki R, Kawamura Y, Ugawa M, Sato I, Hashimoto K, Kamesawa R, Setoyama K, Yamaguchi S, Fujiu K, Waki K, Noji H. Ghost cytometry. Science. 2018 Jun 15;360(6394):1246-1251. doi: 10.1126/science.aan0096. PubMed PMID: 29903975.

Signal Transduction

1.  Capper MJ, Wacker D. How the ubiquitous GPCR receptor family selectively activates signalling pathways. Nature. 2018 Jun;558(7711):529-530. doi: 10.1038/d41586-018-05503-4. PubMed PMID: 29946098.