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Leung Lab visited the Department of Ophthalmology at the Osaka University School of Medicine

In May 2017, the Leung lab visited several collaborating groups in Asia and shared with them our research vision on using zebrafish to find new drugs for retinal degeneration. In this blog post, we will share some pictures of our visit to the Department of Ophthalmology at the Osaka University School of Medicine. We met […]

Cheap visual aid for people with poor vision

I have just come across an interesting approach to help patients with poor vision–using a smartphone app designed for augmenting vision with google cardboard. I first came across this approach through this youtube video. It shows how the approach helped a lady who suffered from Stargardt’s disease and could not see well for eight years. […]

2014-05-25 new articles we read this week

Gene regulatory network Barsi JC, Tu Q, Davidson E. General approach for in vivo recovery of cell type specific effector gene sets. Genome Res. 2014 Mar 6. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24604781. Medicine Project to Improve Poor Children’s Intellect Led to Better Health, Data Show Begley CG, Ellis LM. Drug development: Raise standards […]

2012-02-26 New articles we read this week

Genome editing Kim JM, Kim D, Kim S, Kim JS. Genotyping with CRISPR-Cas-derived RNA-guided endonucleases. Nat Commun. 2014 Jan 20;5:3157. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4157. PubMed PMID: 24445736. Bae S, Park J, Kim JS. Cas-OFFinder: A fast and versatile algorithm that searches for potential off-target sites of Cas9 RNA-guided endonucleases. Bioinformatics. 2014 Jan 24. [Epub ahead of print] […]

My visit to the Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, China

In January, I visited the Center for Human Molecular Biology & Genetics at the Sichuan Academy of Medical Sciences & Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital, Chengdu, China [Chinese website of the Institute]. It is a large provincial hospital in Sichuan Province with a population of 80.8 million. The hospital served approximately 3.6 million outpatient and emergency […]

My visit to Ho Yu College in Hong Kong

I visited Ho Yu College in Hong Kong last month. A good mentor Dr. William Mak has been running a great biotechnology education program for the primary and secondary school students, as well as the public there. See an old post about their outreach program in which they fit a whole research lab into custom-built […]

2012-06-17 new articles we read this week

Development Nancy P, Tagliani E, Tay CS, Asp P, Levy DE, Erlebacher A.  Chemokine gene silencing in decidual stromal cells limits T cell access to the maternal-fetal interface. Science. 2012 Jun 8;336(6086):1317-21. PubMed PMID: 22679098. News coverage: New Discovery Provides Insight on Long-Standing Pregnancy Mystery. Behaviour Polverino G, Abaid N, Kopman V, Macrì S, Porfiri […]