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 […]
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. […]
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Development Lander AD. Pattern, growth, and control. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):955-69. Review. PubMed PMID: 21414486; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3128888. Braendle C, Felix MA. The other side of phenotypic plasticity: a developmental system that generates an invariant phenotype despite environmental variation. J Biosci. 2009 Oct;34(4):543-51. Review. PubMed PMID: 19920340. Noordermeer D, Leleu M, Splinter E, Rougemont […]
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Funding Roebber PJ, Schultz DM. Peer review, program officers and science funding. PLoS One. 2011 Apr 12;6(4):e18680. PubMed PMID: 21533268; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3075261. The most interesting conclusion is – the best strategy is to submit more applications when funding rate drops below 15%. Neuroscience Peelen MV, Kastner S. Is that a bathtub in your […]
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Saturday, October 1, 2011
Neuroscience Nishimoto S, Vu AT, Naselaris T, Benjamini Y, Yu B, Gallant JL. Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies. Curr Biol. 2011 Sep 22. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21945275. A group of Berkeley scientists have used fMRI to probe into our brains and “see” how we see the world. […]
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Imaging Paige JS, Wu KY, Jaffrey SR. RNA mimics of green fluorescent protein. Science. 2011 Jul 29;333(6042):642-6. PubMed PMID: 21798953. A potential way to tag RNA by fluorescence similar to tag protein by GFP Data analysis Spiegelhalter D, Pearson M, Short I. Visualizing uncertainty about the future. Science. 2011 Sep 9;333(6048):1393-400. PubMed PMID: 21903802. Genetics […]
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Saturday, September 17, 2011
Synthetic biology * a very nice review series about the potential of synthetic biology Vinson V, Pennisi E. Synthetic biology. The allure of synthetic biology. Introduction. Science. 2011 Sep 2;333(6047):1235. PubMed PMID: 21885767. Bohannon J. The life hacker. Science. 2011 Sep 2;333(6047):1236-7. PubMed PMID: 21885768. Kean S. A lab of their own. Science. 2011 Sep […]
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Genomics Rothberg JM, Hinz W, Rearick TM, Schultz J, Mileski W, Davey M, Leamon JH, Johnson K, Milgrew MJ, Edwards M, Hoon J, Simons JF, Marran D, Myers JW, Davidson JF, Branting A, Nobile JR, Puc BP, Light D, Clark TA, Huber M, Branciforte JT,Stoner IB, Cawley SE, Lyons M, Fu Y, Homer N, Sedova […]
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Sunday, September 4, 2011
The Cell Biology of the Senses A good review series on the cell biology aspects of sensation published in the Journal of Cell Biology. In particular, this one is about vision. Sung CH, Chuang JZ. The cell biology of vision. J Cell Biol. 2010 Sep 20;190(6):953-63. Review. PubMed PMID: 20855501; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3101587. Development […]
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Saturday, August 27, 2011
Population genetics Stoneking M, Krause J. Learning about human population history from ancient and modern genomes. Nat Rev Genet. 2011 Aug 18;12(9):603-14. doi: 10.1038/nrg3029. PubMed PMID: 21850041. Genomics Cooper GM, Shendure J. Needles in stacks of needles: finding disease-causal variants in a wealth of genomic data. Nat Rev Genet. 2011 Aug 18;12(9):628-40. doi: 10.1038/nrg3046. PubMed […]
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