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The making of a machine to test vision of zebrafish larvae

Friday, January 6, 2012

We have recently begun to work on a project that requires us to find out whether a zebrafish larva can see or not. To this end, we have built a small machine to check whether the larvae show a visual behaviour called the optokinetic response (OKR). This video shows the OKR machine, which is essentially […]

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Generation of Chimeric Monkey

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Today there is an article published in CELL about the generation of chimeric monkey. Unlike the traditional way for generation of chimeric mouse for making transgenic animal that can utilize pluripotent stem cells or inner cell mass, the process in primates requires the usage of totipotent cells at a much earlier stage – 4-cell stage. […]

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My trip to the Eye Hospital at Wenzhou Medical College

Monday, January 2, 2012

                              I recently visited the Eye Hospital at Wenzhou Medical College, where they have very good research infrastructure that has integrated various aspects of basic and clinical ophthalmology research together. I gave two talks over there and had a great interaction […]

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How Doctors (Physicians) Die

Thursday, December 29, 2011

How Doctors Die – It’s Not Like the Rest of Us, But It Should Be A deep article written by Ken Murray about how some physicians and patients would opt for less or no treatments when they encounter terminal illness.

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2011-12-03 New articles we read this week

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Medicine There seems to be a new effective drug for Cystic Fibrosis! Ramsey BW, Davies J, McElvaney NG, Tullis E, Bell SC, Dřevínek P, Griese M, McKone EF, Wainwright CE, Konstan MW, Moss R, Ratjen F, Sermet-Gaudelus I, Rowe SM, Dong Q, Rodriguez S, Yen K, Ordoñez C, Elborn JS; VX08-770-102 Study Group. A CFTR […]

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Occupy Science

Thursday, December 1, 2011

This is a cross post from a discussion thread on my facebook, after the UC Davis pepper spray incidence. There are interesting ideas that are worthwhile to think further. It is also interesting to see that there are scientists joining the actual Occupy protests… um..  I still think the problem is not merely the lack […]

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Fetal stem cells can repair mom’s heart after heart attack

Friday, November 25, 2011

From Discover magazine: “Helpful Mouse Fetuses Naturally Send Stem Cells to Mom to Fix Her Damaged Heart” The punchline is When a pregnant mouse has a heart attack, her fetus donates some of its stem cells to help rebuild the damaged heart tissue. The original article is available here. Kara RJ, Bolli P, Karakikes I, […]

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Can Lytro camera be an economical replacement of confocal microscopy?

Thursday, November 24, 2011

These days with tight budget and poor economy, I am always intrigued in finding ways to conserve my research funding, which I think is a responsible approach to research rather than the big spending and throwing-away-old-but-good-equipment mentality. For example, all monitors in my office are old, unwanted CRT monitors. The oldest one is a Sony […]

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All students should realize what is going on in the country and your sister institutions

Monday, November 21, 2011

and the reasons behind the OWS movement. From boingboing: Police officer pepper-sprays seated, non-violent students at UC Davis Interview with a pepper-sprayed UC Davis student

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2011-11-20 new articles we read this week

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Medical Research *These two articles point out the problems of using animal models for research if the goal is to extract translational values and how mouse model, the gold standard for disease research, can actually be a poor reference standard because of the ways we want to standardize the biological tool for testing. Lynch VJ. […]

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