Bansal V, Tewhey R, Topol EJ, Schork NJ. The next phase in human genetics. Nat Biotechnol. 2011 Jan;29(1):38-9. PubMed PMID: 21221098.
Li MA, Bradley A. Crafting rat genomes with zinc fingers. Nat Biotechnol. 2011 Jan;29(1):39-41. PubMed PMID: 21221099.
Fan HC, Wang J, Potanina A, Quake SR. Whole-genome molecular haplotyping of single cells. Nat Biotechnol. 2011 Jan;29(1):51-7. Epub 2010 Dec 19. PubMed PMID: 21170043.
Kitzman JO, Mackenzie AP, Adey A, Hiatt JB, Patwardhan RP, Sudmant PH, Ng SB, Alkan C, Qiu R, Eichler EE, Shendure J. Haplotype-resolved genome sequencing of a Gujarati Indian individual. Nat Biotechnol. 2011 Jan;29(1):59-63. Epub 2010 Dec 19. PubMed PMID: 21170042.
Cui X, Ji D, Fisher DA, Wu Y, Briner DM, Weinstein EJ. Targeted integration in rat and mouse embryos with zinc-finger nucleases. Nat Biotechnol. 2011 Jan;29(1):64-7. Epub 2010 Dec 12. PubMed PMID: 21151125.
Auer PL, Doerge RW. Statistical design and analysis of RNA sequencing data. Genetics. 2010 Jun;185(2):405-16. Epub 2010 May 3. PubMed PMID: 20439781; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2881125.
Robinson MD, McCarthy DJ, Smyth GK. edgeR: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data. Bioinformatics. 2010 Jan 1;26(1):139-40. Epub 2009 Nov 11. PubMed PMID: 19910308; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2796818.
Eye disease
Asherie N. Blind attraction: The mechanism of an inherited congenital cataract. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jan 11;108(2):437-8. Epub 2010 Dec 28. PubMed PMID: 21189296.
Retina
Morris AC, Forbes-Osborne MA, Pillai LS, Fadool JM. Microarray Analysis of XOPS-mCFP Zebrafish Retina Identifies Genes Associated with Rod Photoreceptor Degeneration and Regeneration. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Jan 7. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21217106.
Buske P, Galle J, Barker N, Aust G, Clevers H, Loeffler M. A comprehensive model of the spatio-temporal stem cell and tissue organisation in the intestinal crypt. PLoS Comput Biol. 2011 Jan 6;7(1):e1001045. PubMed PMID: 21253562.
Gene regulatory network
Shou C, Bhardwaj N, Lam HY, Yan KK, Kim PM, Snyder M, Gerstein MB. Measuring the evolutionary rewiring of biological networks. PLoS Comput Biol. 2011 Jan 6;7(1):e1001050. PubMed PMID: 21253555.
French L, Pavlidis P. Relationships between Gene Expression and Brain Wiring in the Adult Rodent Brain. PLoS Comput Biol. 2011 Jan 6;7(1):e1001049. PubMed PMID: 21253556.
Neuroscience
Kohl J, Jefferis GS. Neuroanatomy: decoding the fly brain. Curr Biol. 2011 Jan 11;21(1):R19-20. PubMed PMID: 21215929.
Chiang AS, Lin CY, Chuang CC, Chang HM, Hsieh CH, Yeh CW, Shih CT, Wu JJ, Wang GT, Chen YC, Wu CC, Chen GY, Ching YT, Lee PC, Lin CY, Lin HH, Wu CC, Hsu HW, Huang YA, Chen JY, Chiang HJ, Lu CF, Ni RF, Yeh CY, Hwang JK. Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Brain-wide Wiring Networks in Drosophila at Single-Cell Resolution. Curr Biol. 2011 Jan 11;21(1):1-11. Epub 2010 Dec 2. PubMed PMID: 21129968.
Development
Del Álamo D, Rouault H, Schweisguth F. Mechanism and Significance of cis-Inhibition in Notch Signalling. Curr Biol. 2011 Jan 11;21(1):R40-7. PubMed PMID: 21215938.
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Kinkhabwala A, Riley M, Koyama M, Monen J, Satou C, Kimura Y, Higashijima SI, Fetcho J. A structural and functional ground plan for neurons in the hindbrain of zebrafish. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jan 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21199947.
Koyama M, Kinkhabwala A, Satou C, Higashijima SI, Fetcho J. Mapping a sensory-motor network onto a structural and functional ground plan in the hindbrain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Jan 3. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21199937.
Suchow JW, Alvarez GA. Motion Silences Awareness of Visual Change. Curr Biol. 2011 Jan 5. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21215632.
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Cell Biology
Salinas PC. Modulation of the microtubule cytoskeleton: a role for a divergent canonical Wnt pathway. Trends Cell Biol. 2007 Jul;17(7):333-42. Epub 2007 Jul 20. Review. PubMed PMID: 17643305.
Fussner E, Ching RW, Bazett-Jones DP. Living without 30nm chromatin fibers. Trends Biochem Sci. 2011 Jan;36(1):1-6. PubMed PMID: 20926298.
Genomics
Balasubramanian S, Habegger L, Frankish A, Macarthur DG, Harte R, Tyler-Smith C, Harrow J, Gerstein M. Gene inactivation and its implications for annotation inthe era of personal genomics. Genes Dev. 2011 Jan 1;25(1):1-10. PubMed PMID: 21205862.
Miller C, Schwalb B, Maier K, Schulz D, Dümcke S, Zacher B, Mayer A, Sydow J, Marcinowski L, Dölken L, Martin DE, Tresch A, Cramer P. Dynamic transcriptome analysis measures rates of mRNA synthesis and decay in yeast. Mol Syst Biol. 2011 Jan 4;7:458. PubMed PMID: 21206491.
Eye disease
Li X, Li W, Dai X, Kong F, Zheng Q, Zhou X, Lü F, Chang B, Rohrer B, Hauswirth WW, Qu J, Pang JJ. Gene Therapy Rescues Cone Structure and Function in the 3-Month-Old rd12 Mouse: A Model for Midcourse RPE65 Leber Congenital Amaurosis. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Jan 5;52(1):7-15. Print 2011. PubMed PMID: 21169527.
Weleber RG, Michaelides M, Trzupek KM, Stover NB, Stone EM. The Phenotype of Severe Early Childhood Onset Retinal Dystrophy (SECORD) from Mutation of RPE65 and Differentiation from Leber Congenital Amaurosis. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Jan 5;52(1):292-302. Print 2011. PubMed PMID: 20811047.
Development
Sepich DS, Usmani M, Pawlicki S, Solnica-Krezel L. Wnt/PCP signaling controls intracellular position of MTOCs during gastrulation convergence and extension movements. Development. 2011 Feb;138(3):543-52. PubMed PMID: 21205798.
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Easterlin RA, McVey LA, Switek M, Sawangfa O, Zweig JS. The happiness-income paradox revisited. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Dec 28;107(52):22463-8. Epub 2010 Dec 13. PubMed PMID: 21149705.
Genetics
Toettcher JE, Voigt CA, Weiner OD, Lim WA. The promise of optogenetics in cell biology: interrogating molecular circuits in space and time. Nat Methods. 2011 Jan;8(1):35-8. Epub 2010 Dec 20. PubMed PMID: 21191370.
Gradinaru V, Mogri M, Thompson KR, Henderson JM, Deisseroth K. Optical deconstruction of parkinsonian neural circuitry. Science. 2009 Apr 17;324(5925):354-9. Epub 2009 Mar 19. PubMed PMID: 19299587.
Gene Regulatory Network/ Development
Saudemont A, Haillot E, Mekpoh F, Bessodes N, Quirin M, Lapraz F, Duboc V, Röttinger E, Range R, Oisel A, Besnardeau L, Wincker P, Lepage T. Ancestral Regulatory Circuits Governing Ectoderm Patterning Downstream of Nodal and BMP2/4 Revealed by Gene Regulatory Network Analysis in an Echinoderm. PLoS Genet. 2010 Dec 23;6(12):e1001259. PubMed PMID: 21203442; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3009687.
Hurtado A, Holmes KA, Ross-Innes CS, Schmidt D, Carroll JS. FOXA1 is a key determinant of estrogen receptor function and endocrine response. Nat Genet. 2010 Dec 12. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21151129.
Cell cycle
Coudreuse D, Nurse P. Driving the cell cycle with a minimal CDK control network. Nature. 2010 Dec 23;468(7327):1074-9. PubMed PMID: 21179163.
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Parent: “Do you realize that taking full responsibility means that if it backfires and goes wrong, you will own up to it, pay back whatever it takes to make up for it going wrong and learn from it so that it doesn’t happen again?”
Teenager: “I didn’t agree to that.”
Parent: “Well, then what do you think taking full responsibility means?”
Teenager: “That if it goes wrong, I will say, ‘I’m sorry.'”
Gene regulatory network/ signal transduction/ Systems biology
Davidson EH. Emerging properties of animal gene regulatory networks. Nature. 2010 Dec 16;468(7326):911-20. PubMed PMID: 21164479.
Booth LN, Tuch BB, Johnson AD. Intercalation of a new tier of transcription regulation into an ancient circuit. Nature. 2010 Dec 16;468(7326):959-63. PubMed PMID: 21164485.
Kolodkin AN, Bruggeman FJ, Plant N, Moné MJ, Bakker BM, Campbell MJ, van Leeuwen JP, Carlberg C, Snoep JL, Westerhoff HV. Design principles of nuclear receptor signaling: how complex networking improves signal transduction. Mol Syst Biol. 2010 Dec 21;6:446. PubMed PMID: 21179018.
Siryaporn A, Perchuk BS, Laub MT, Goulian M. Evolving a robust signal transduction pathway from weak cross-talk. Mol Syst Biol. 2010 Dec 21;6:452. PubMed PMID: 21179024.
Inouye M, Kettunen J, Soininen P, Silander K, Ripatti S, Kumpula LS, Hämäläinen E, Jousilahti P, Kangas AJ, Männistö S, Savolainen MJ, Jula A, Leiviskä J, Palotie A, Salomaa V, Perola M, Ala-Korpela M, Peltonen L. Metabonomic, transcriptomic, and genomic variation of a population cohort. Mol Syst Biol. 2010 Dec 21;6:441. PubMed PMID: 21179014.
Oshlack A, Robinson MD, Young MD. From RNA-seq reads to differential expression results. Genome Biol. 2010 Dec 22;11(12):220. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21176179.
Humanities
Bohannon J. Digital data. Google opens books to new cultural studies. Science. 2010 Dec 17;330(6011):1600. PubMed PMID: 21163974.
Michel JB, Shen YK, Aiden AP, Veres A, Gray MK; The Google Books Team, Pickett JP, Hoiberg D, Clancy D, Norvig P, Orwant J, Pinker S, Nowak MA, Aiden EL. Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books. Science. 2010 Dec 16. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21163965.
Collins F. The bridge between lab and clinic. Nature. 2010 Dec 16;468(7326):877. PubMed PMID: 21164451.
British Medical Journal Christmas series
Heinrich H, Goetze O, Menne D, Iten PX, Fruehauf H, Vavricka SR, Schwizer W, Fried M, Fox M. Effect on gastric function and symptoms of drinking wine, black tea, or schnapps with a Swiss cheese fondue: randomised controlled crossover trial. BMJ. 2010 Dec 14;341:c6731. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c6731. PubMed PMID: 21156747.
Rothberg MB, Arora A, Hermann J, Kleppel R, Marie PS, Visintainer P. Phantom vibration syndrome among medical staff: a cross sectional survey. BMJ. 2010 Dec 15;341:c6914. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c6914. PubMed PMID: 21159761.
McCain RS, Harris AR, McCallion K, Campbell WJ, Kirk SJ. The barrier method as a new tool to assist in career selection: covert observational study. BMJ. 2010 Dec 15;341:c6968. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c6968. PubMed PMID: 21159762; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3002171.
Axelsson J, Sundelin T, Ingre M, Van Someren EJ, Olsson A, Lekander M. Beauty sleep: experimental study on the perceived health and attractiveness of sleep deprived people. BMJ. 2010 Dec 14;341:c6614. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c6614. PubMed PMID: 21156746.
Solomon AW, Kirwan CJ, Alexander ND, Nimako K, Jurukov A, Forth RJ, Rahman TM; Prospective Analysis of Renal Compensation for Hypohydration in Exhausted Doctors
(PARCHED) Investigators. Urine output on an intensive care unit: case-control study. BMJ. 2010 Dec 14;341:c6761. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c6761. PubMed PMID: 21156738; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3001704.
Hansen CS, Faerch LH, Kristensen PL. Testing the validity of the Danish urban myth that alcohol can be absorbed through feet: open labelled self experimental study. BMJ. 2010 Dec 14;341:c6812. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c6812. PubMed PMID: 21156749.
Retina
Menger GJ, Koke JR, Cahill GM. Diurnal and circadian retinomotor movements in zebrafish. Vis Neurosci. 2005 Mar-Apr;22(2):203-9. PubMed PMID: 15935112.
Tsujimura T, Hosoya T, Kawamura S. A single enhancer regulating the differential expression of duplicated red-sensitive opsin genes in zebrafish. PLoS Genet. 2010 Dec 16;6(12):e1001245. PubMed PMID: 21187910; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3002997.
Fish
Li S, Pozhitkov A, Ryan RA, Manning CS, Brown-Peterson N, Brouwer M. Constructing a fish metabolic network model. Genome Biol. 2010 Nov 29;11(11):R115. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21114829.
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Barabási AL, Gulbahce N, Loscalzo J. Network medicine: a network-based approach to human disease. Nat Rev Genet. 2011 Jan;12(1):56-68. PubMed PMID: 21164525.
Altman RB, Kroemer HK, McCarty CA, Ratain MJ, Roden D. Pharmacogenomics: will the promise be fulfilled? Nat Rev Genet. 2011 Jan;12(1):69-73. Epub 2010 Nov 30. PubMed PMID: 21116304.
Development
Dahmann C, Oates AC, Brand M. Boundary formation and maintenance in tissue development. Nat Rev Genet. 2011 Jan;12(1):43-55. PubMed PMID: 21164524.
Retinal development
Gomes FL, Zhang G, Carbonell F, Correa JA, Harris WA, Simons BD, Cayouette M. Reconstruction of rat retinal progenitor cell lineages in vitro reveals a surprising degree of stochasticity in cell fate decisions. Development. 2010 Dec 9;. [Epub ahead of print]
Wojciechowski R. Nature and nurture: the complex genetics of myopia and refractive error. Clin Genet. 2010 Nov 3;. [Epub ahead of print]
Delta/Notch
Mahler J, Filippi A, Driever W. DeltaA/DeltaD Regulate Multiple and Temporally Distinct Phases of Notch Signaling during Dopaminergic Neurogenesis in Zebrafish. J Neurosci. 2010 Dec 8;30(49):16621-35.
Neuroscience
Redondo RL, Morris RG. Making memories last: the synaptic tagging and capture hypothesis. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2011 Jan;12(1):17-30. PubMed PMID: 21170072.
Evolution
Plotkin JB, Kudla G. Synonymous but not the same: the causes and consequences of codon bias. Nat Rev Genet. 2011 Jan;12(1):32-42. Epub 2010 Nov 23. PubMed PMID: 21102527.
Behaviour
Lee A, Mathuru AS, Teh C, Kibat C, Korzh V, Penney TB, Jesuthasan S. The Habenula Prevents Helpless Behavior in Larval Zebrafish. Curr Biol. 2010 Dec 8;. [Epub ahead of print]
Cancer
Feng Y, Santoriello C, Mione M, Hurlstone A, Martin P. Live Imaging of Innate Immune Cell Sensing of Transformed Cells in Zebrafish Larvae: Parallels between Tumor Initiation and Wound Inflammation. PLoS Biol. 2010 Dec 14;8(12):e1000562. PubMed PMID: 21179501.
Randlett O, Norden C, Harris WA. The vertebrate retina: A model for neuronal polarization in vivo. Dev Neurobiol. 2010 Dec 7. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21140403.
Sedwick C. Melanopsin ganglion cells: a different way of seeing things. PLoS Biol. 2010 Dec 7;8(12):e1001003. PubMed PMID: 21151889; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2998444.
Brown TM, Gias C, Hatori M, Keding SR, Semo M, Coffey PJ, Gigg J, Piggins HD, Panda S, Lucas RJ. Melanopsin contributions to irradiance coding in the thalamo-cortical visual system. PLoS Biol. 2010 Dec 7;8(12):e1000558. PubMed PMID: 21151887; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2998442.
Stem cells
Dolgin E. Putting stem cells to the test. Nat Med. 2010 Dec;16(12):1354-7. PubMed PMID: 21135828.
de Souza N. iPS cell aberrations. Nat Methods. 2010 Dec;7(12):948-9. PubMed PMID: 21166072.
Ethics, Legal and Social Issues
Trommelmans L. The challenge of regenerative medicine. Hastings Cent Rep. 2010 Nov-Dec;40(6):24-6. PubMed PMID: 21155108.
Zebrafish
Mosimann C, Kaufman CK, Li P, Pugach EK, Tamplin OJ, Zon LI. Ubiquitous transgene expression and Cre-based recombination driven by the ubiquitin promoter in zebrafish. Development. 2011 Jan;138(1):169-77. PubMed PMID: 21138979.
Rinkwitz S, Mourrain P, Becker TS. Zebrafish: an integrative System for Neurogenomics and Neurosciences. Prog Neurobiol. 2010 Dec 1. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21130139.
Genomics
Algire M, Krishnakumar R, Merryman C. Megabases for kilodollars. Nat Biotechnol. 2010 Dec;28(12):1272-3. PubMed PMID: 21139611.
Matzas M, Stähler PF, Kefer N, Siebelt N, Boisguérin V, Leonard JT, Keller A, Stähler CF, Häberle P, Gharizadeh B, Babrzadeh F, Church GM. High-fidelity gene synthesis by retrieval of sequence-verified DNA identified using high-throughput pyrosequencing. Nat Biotechnol. 2010 Dec;28(12):1291-4. Epub 2010 Nov 28. PubMed PMID: 21113166.
Kosuri S, Eroshenko N, Leproust EM, Super M, Way J, Li JB, Church GM. Scalable gene synthesis by selective amplification of DNA pools from high-fidelity microchips. Nat Biotechnol. 2010 Dec;28(12):1295-9. Epub 2010 Nov 28. PubMed PMID: 21113165.
Developmental/ Evolutionary Genomics
Prud’homme B, Gompel N. Evolutionary biology: Genomic hourglass. Nature. 2010 Dec 9;468(7325):768-9. PubMed PMID: 21150985.
Kalinka AT, Varga KM, Gerrard DT, Preibisch S, Corcoran DL, Jarrells J, Ohler U, Bergman CM, Tomancak P. Gene expression divergence recapitulates the developmental hourglass model. Nature. 2010 Dec 9;468(7325):811-4. PubMed PMID: 21150996.
Domazet-Lošo T, Tautz D. A phylogenetically based transcriptome age index mirrors ontogenetic divergence patterns. Nature. 2010 Dec 9;468(7325):815-8. PubMed PMID: 21150997.
Biotech Industry
Hambley CJ. Catching the wave in China. Nat Biotechnol. 2010 Dec;28(12):1309-10. PubMed PMID: 21139619.
Cell Biology
Picone R, Ren X, Ivanovitch KD, Clarke JD, McKendry RA, Baum B. A polarised population of dynamic microtubules mediates homeostatic length control in animal cells. PLoS Biol. 2010 Nov 16;8(11):e1000542. PubMed PMID: 21103410; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2982804.
Systems Biology
Friedman N, Schuldiner M. Genetics. The DNA damage road map. Science. 2010 Dec 3;330(6009):1327-8. PubMed PMID: 21127235.
Bandyopadhyay S, Mehta M, Kuo D, Sung MK, Chuang R, Jaehnig EJ, Bodenmiller B, Licon K, Copeland W, Shales M, Fiedler D, Dutkowski J, Guénolé A, van Attikum H, Shokat KM, Kolodner RD, Huh WK, Aebersold R, Keogh MC, Krogan NJ, Ideker T. Rewiring of genetic networks in response to DNA damage. Science. 2010 Dec 3;330(6009):1385-9. PubMed PMID: 21127252.
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Cao Z, Jensen LD, Rouhi P, Hosaka K, Länne T, Steffensen JF, Wahlberg E, Cao Y. Hypoxia-induced retinopathy model in adult zebrafish. Nat Protoc. 2010 Dec;5(12):1903-10. Epub 2010 Nov 4. PubMed PMID: 21127484.
Rouhi P, Jensen LD, Cao Z, Hosaka K, Länne T, Wahlberg E, Steffensen JF, Cao Y. Hypoxia-induced metastasis model in embryonic zebrafish. Nat Protoc. 2010 Dec;5(12):1911-8. Epub 2010 Nov 4. PubMed PMID: 21127485.
Lessman CA, Taylor MR, Orisme W, Carver EA. Use of Flatbed Transparency Scanners in Zebrafish Research Versatile and Economical Adjuncts to Traditional Imaging Tools for the Danio rerio Laboratory. Methods Cell Biol. 2010;100:295-322. PubMed PMID: 21111223.
Wang JS, Kefalov VJ. The Cone-specific Visual Cycle. Prog Retin Eye Res. 2010 Nov 24. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21111842.
Avanesov A, Malicki J. Analysis of the retina in the zebrafish model. Methods Cell Biol. 2010;100:153-204. PubMed PMID: 21111217.
Perkins BD, Fadool JM. Photoreceptor Structure and Development Analyses using GFP Transgenes. Methods Cell Biol. 2010;100:205-18. PubMed PMID: 21111218.
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