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2016-03-28 new articles we read this week

Zebrafish Adatto I, Krug L, Zon LI. The Red Light District and Its Effects on Zebrafish Reproduction. Zebrafish. 2016 Mar 15. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26978703. Brocal I, White RJ, Dooley CM, Carruthers SN, Clark R, Hall A, Busch-Nentwich EM, Stemple DL, Kettleborough RN. Efficient identification of CRISPR/Cas9-induced insertions/deletions by direct germline screening […]

2016-02-01 new articles we read this week

Molecular Biology Weingarten-Gabbay S, Elias-Kirma S, Nir R, Gritsenko AA, Stern-Ginossar N, Yakhini Z, Weinberger A, Segal E. Comparative genetics. Systematic discovery of cap-independent translation sequences in human and viral genomes. Science. 2016 Jan 15;351(6270). pii: aad4939. doi: 10.1126/science.aad4939. Epub 2016 Jan 14. PubMed PMID: 26816383. Bernecky C, Herzog F, Baumeister W, Plitzko JM, Cramer […]

2016-01-04 new articles we read this week

Eye disease Fritsche LG, et al. A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants. Nat Genet. 2015 Dec 21. doi: 10.1038/ng.3448. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26691988. Zebrafish Behaviour Prykhozhij SV, Rajan V, Berman JN. A Guide to Computational Tools and Design Strategies for Genome Editing […]

2013-10-12 New articles we read this week

Genetics/Genomics Mali P, Esvelt KM, Church GM. Cas9 as a versatile tool for engineering biology. Nat Methods. 2013 Sep 27;10(10):957-63. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2649. PubMed  PMID: 24076990. Esvelt KM, Mali P, Braff JL, Moosburner M, Yaung SJ, Church GM. Orthogonal Cas9 proteins for RNA-guided gene regulation and editing. Nat Methods. 2013 Sep 29. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2681. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed […]

2011-11-20 new articles we read this week

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. […]

2011-10-29 new articles we read this week

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 […]