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2017-08-24 new articles we read this month

Neuroscience Robie AA, Hirokawa J, Edwards AW, Umayam LA, Lee A, Phillips ML, Card GM, Korff W, Rubin GM, Simpson JH, Reiser MB, Branson K. Mapping the Neural Substrates of Behavior. Cell. 2017 Jul 13;170(2):393-406.e28. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.06.032. PubMed PMID: 28709004. Smith K. How to map the circuits that define us. Nature. 2017 Aug 9;548(7666):150-152. doi: […]

2017-07-14 new articles we read this week

Behaviour Palmér T, Ek F, Enqvist O, Olsson R, Åström K, Petersson P. Action sequencing in the spontaneous swimming behavior of zebrafish larvae – implications for drug development. Sci Rep. 2017 Jun 9;7(1):3191. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-03144-7. PubMed PMID: 28600565; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5466685. Vliet SM, Ho TC, Volz DC. Behavioral screening of the LOPAC(1280) library in […]

2017-06-21 new articles we read this week

Development Kobayashi T, Zhang H, Tang WWC, Irie N, Withey S, Klisch D, Sybirna A, Dietmann S, Contreras DA, Webb R, Allegrucci C, Alberio R, Surani MA. Principles of early human development and germ cell program from conserved model systems. Nature. 2017 Jun 7. doi: 10.1038/nature22812. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28607482. Peter IS, […]

2017-06-12 new articles we read this week

Stem cells Mandai M, Watanabe A, Kurimoto Y, Hirami Y, Morinaga C, Daimon T, Fujihara M, Akimaru H, Sakai N, Shibata Y, Terada M, Nomiya Y, Tanishima S, Nakamura M, Kamao H, Sugita S, Onishi A, Ito T, Fujita K, Kawamata S, Go MJ, Shinohara C, Hata KI, Sawada M, Yamamoto M, Ohta S, Ohara […]

2017-03-15 new articles we read this week

Genome editing Why the CRISPR patent verdict isn’t the end of the story Burstein D, Harrington LB, Strutt SC, Probst AJ, Anantharaman K, Thomas BC, Doudna JA, Banfield JF. New CRISPR-Cas systems from uncultivated microbes. Nature. 2017 Feb 9;542(7640):237-241. doi: 10.1038/nature21059. PubMed PMID: 28005056; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5300952. Imaging Pan C, Cai R, Quacquarelli FP, […]

2016-05-15 new articles we read this week

Zebrafish Sotolongo-Lopez M, Alvarez-Delfin K, Saade CJ, Vera DL, Fadool JM. Genetic Dissection of Dual Roles for the Transcription Factor six7 in Photoreceptor Development and Patterning in Zebrafish. PLoS Genet. 2016 Apr 8;12(4):e1005968. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005968. eCollection 2016 Apr. PubMed PMID: 27058886. Genome editing Nelles DA, Fang MY, O’Connell MR, Xu JL, Markmiller SJ, Doudna JA, […]

2016-02-22 new articles we read this week

Genetics Gage SH, Davey Smith G, Ware JJ, Flint J, Munafò MR. G = E: What GWAS Can Tell Us about the Environment. PLoS Genet. 2016 Feb 11;12(2):e1005765. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005765. eCollection 2016 Feb. PubMed PMID: 26866486. Murray A. Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück on Random Mutation and Fluctuation Tests. Genetics. 2016 Feb;202(2):367-8. doi: 10.1534/genetics.115.186163. PubMed […]

2016-02-15 new articles we read this week

Scientific publishing Gibney E. Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum. Nature. 2016 Feb 4;530(7588):117-8. PubMed PMID: 26854297. Genome editing Wu B, Luo L, Gao XJ. Cas9-triggered chain ablation of cas9 as a gene drive brake. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Feb 5;34(2):137-8. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3444. PubMed PMID: 26849513. Alphey L. Can CRISPR-Cas9 gene drives curb malaria? […]

2015-07-12 Articles we read this week

Population Genetics Balaresque P, Poulet N, Cussat-Blanc S, Gerard P, Quintana-Murci L, Heyer E, Jobling MA. Y-chromosome descent clusters and male differential reproductive success: young lineage expansions dominate Asian pastoral nomadic populations. Eur J Hum Genet. 2015 Jan 14. doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2014.285. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25585703. Nature News: Genghis Khan’s genetic legacy has […]

2015-01-31 Articles we read this week

Cancer Tomasetti C, Vogelstein B. Cancer etiology. Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions. Science. 2015 Jan 2;347(6217):78-81. doi: 10.1126/science.1260825. PubMed PMID: 25554788. Commentary: Wodarz D, Zauber AG. Cancer: Risk factors and random chances. Nature. 2015 Jan 29;517(7536):563-4. doi: 10.1038/517563a. PubMed PMID: 25631443. Commentary: Couzin-Frankel J. […]