Delta-Notch, signal transduction
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Ethical, Legal and Social Issues
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- Ioannidis JP. Why most published research findings are false. PLoS Med. 2005 Aug;2(8):e124. Epub 2005 Aug 30. PubMed PMID: 16060722; PubMed Central PMCID:PMC1182327.
Gene regulatory network
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- Peter IS, Davidson EH. A gene regulatory network controlling the embryonic specification of endoderm. Nature. 2011 May 29;474(7353):635-9. doi: 10.1038/nature10100. PubMed PMID: 21623371.
Neurobiology
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Zebrafish
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http://discovermagazine.com/2011/apr/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-dna
From If the dog ate your homework, read this:
There are always excuses for not showing up, or not turning work in. I’ve heard them all. But lives built on excuses generally don’t turn out well.
Few people care whether you succeed or fail. You are not showing up to class for your teachers or even your parents. You’re not doing these assignments for anyone but yourselves.
Life has a way of getting serious with us well before some of us decide to get serious with it. By that time, it may be too late to build the life you might have wanted.
An interesting article “Positive Black Swans” by Tim Harford From Slate
Still, after a few years, Capecchi had decided that Harvard was not for him. Despite great resources, inspiring colleagues and a supportive mentor in Watson, he found the Harvard environment demanded results in too much of a hurry. That was fine, if you wanted to take predictable steps along well-signposted pathways. But Capecchi felt that if you wanted to do great work, to change the world, you had to give yourself space to breathe. Harvard, he thought, had become “a bastion of short-term gratification.” Off he went instead to the University of Utah, where a brand-new department was being set up. He had spotted, in Utah, a Galapagan island on which to develop his ideas.
Mario Capecchi developed the approach for generating knock0ut mice and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007.
Genomics/ next-generation sequencing
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- Gresham D, Boer VM, Caudy A, Ziv N, Brandt NJ, Storey JD, Botstein D. System-level analysis of genes and functions affecting survival during nutrient starvation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 2011 Jan;187(1):299-317. Epub2010 Oct 13. PubMed PMID: 20944018; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3018308.
- Inaki K, Hillmer AM, Ukil L, Yao F, Woo XY, Vardy LA, Zawack KF, Lee CW, Ariyaratne PN, Chan YS, Desai KV, Bergh J, Hall P, Putti TC, Ong WL, Shahab A, Cacheux-Rataboul V, Karuturi RK, Sung WK, Ruan X, Bourque G, Ruan Y, Liu ET. Transcriptional consequences of genomic structural aberrations in breast cancer. Genome Res. 2011 May;21(5):676-87. Epub 2011 Apr 5. PubMed PMID: 21467264.
Gene mapping
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- Erlich Y, Edvardson S, Hodges E, Zenvirt S, Thekkat P, Shaag A, Dor T, Hannon GJ, Elpeleg O. Exome sequencing and disease-network analysis of a single family implicate a mutation in KIF1A in hereditary spastic paraparesis. Genome Res. 2011 May;21(5):658-64. Epub 2011 Apr 12. PubMed PMID: 21487076.
- Lupski JR, Reid JG, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Rio Deiros D, Chen DC, Nazareth L, Bainbridge M, Dinh H, Jing C, Wheeler DA, McGuire AL, Zhang F, Stankiewicz P, Halperin JJ, Yang C, Gehman C, Guo D, Irikat RK, Tom W, Fantin NJ, Muzny DM, Gibbs RA. Whole-genome sequencing in a patient with Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy. N Engl J Med. 2010 Apr 1;362(13):1181-91. Epub 2010 Mar 10. PubMed PMID: 20220177.
- Musunuru K, Pirruccello JP, Do R, Peloso GM, Guiducci C, Sougnez C, Garimella KV, Fisher S, Abreu J, Barry AJ, Fennell T, Banks E, Ambrogio L, Cibulskis K, Kernytsky A, Gonzalez E, Rudzicz N, Engert JC, DePristo MA, Daly MJ, Cohen JC, Hobbs HH, Altshuler D, Schonfeld G, Gabriel SB, Yue P, Kathiresan S. Exome sequencing, ANGPTL3 mutations, and familial combined hypolipidemia. N Engl J Med. 2010 Dec 2;363(23):2220-7. Epub 2010 Oct 13. PubMed PMID: 20942659; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3008575.
Systems Biology/ gene regulatory network
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- Hakim O, Sung MH, Voss TC, Splinter E, John S, Sabo PJ, Thurman RE, Stamatoyannopoulos JA, de Laat W, Hager GL. Diverse gene reprogramming events occur in the same spatial clusters of distal regulatory elements. Genome Res. 2011 May;21(5):697-706. Epub 2011 Apr 6. PubMed PMID: 21471403.
Stem cells
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- Ng HH, Surani MA. The transcriptional and signalling networks of pluripotency. Nat Cell Biol. 2011 May;13(5):490-6. PubMed PMID: 21540844.
- Wu SM, Hochedlinger K. Harnessing the potential of induced pluripotent stem cells for regenerative medicine. Nat Cell Biol. 2011 May;13(5):497-505. PubMed PMID: 21540845.
- Jones DL, Rando TA. Emerging models and paradigms for stem cell ageing. NatCell Biol. 2011 May;13(5):506-12. PubMed PMID: 21540846.
- Fuchs E, Horsley V. Ferreting out stem cells from their niches. Nat Cell Biol.2011 May;13(5):513-8. PubMed PMID: 21540847.
- Barrero MJ, Izpisua Belmonte JC. iPS cells forgive but do not forget. Nat CellBiol. 2011 May;13(5):523-5. PubMed PMID: 21540851.
- Ohi Y, Qin H, Hong C, Blouin L, Polo JM, Guo T, Qi Z, Downey SL, Manos PD, Rossi DJ, Yu J, Hebrok M, Hochedlinger K, Costello JF, Song JS, Ramalho-Santos M. Incomplete DNA methylation underlies a transcriptional memory of somatic cells in human iPS cells. Nat Cell Biol. 2011 May;13(5):541-9. Epub 2011 Apr 17. PubMedPMID: 21499256.
Eye disease
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- Pinazo-Durán MD, Pons-Vázquez S, Gallego-Pinazo R, Galbis Estrada C, Zanón-Moreno V, Vila Bou V, Sanz Solana P. Thyroid hormone deficiency disrupts rat eye neurodevelopment. Brain Res. 2011 Apr 9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMedPMID: 21529787.
Zebrafish
- Nava SS, An S, Hamil T. Visual detection of UV cues by adult zebrafish (Danio rerio). J Vis. 2011 May 4;11(6). pii: 2. doi: 10.1167/11.6.2. Print 2011. PubMed PMID: 21543523.
I just come across these two excellent articles that point out many wrong ideas that we can have in life. Interestingly, I find most are also our attitude towards scientific research. Try not to do that.
Top 10 Common Faults in Human Thought
10 More Common Faults in Human Thought