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2016-06-07 new articles we read this week

Retinal development Tian C, Zou S, Hu B. Extraocular Source of Oligodendrocytes Contribute to Retinal Myelination and Optokinetic Responses in Zebrafish. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2016 Apr 1;57(4):2129-38. doi: 10.1167/iovs.15-17675. PubMed PMID: 27100159. Riesenberg AN, Brown NL. Cell autonomous and nonautonomous requirements for Delltalike1 during early mouse retinal neurogenesis. Dev Dyn. 2016 Jun;245(6):631-40. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.24402. […]

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? […]

2014-03-23 New articles we read this week

Genomics Venter’s New Goal: World’s Largest Sequencing Operation Clinical Whole Genome Sequencing: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time? Genetics Vanderperre B, Lucier JF, Bissonnette C, Motard J, Tremblay G, Vanderperre S, Wisztorski M, Salzet M, Boisvert FM, Roucou X. Direct detection of alternative open reading frames translation products in human significantly expands the proteome. PLoS […]

2013-04-21 New articles we read this week

Nature Special Issue on “The Future of Publishing“ Neuroscience Horikawa T, Tamaki M, Miyawaki Y, Kamitani Y. Neural Decoding of Visual Imagery During Sleep. Science. 2013 Apr 4. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 23558170. Chung K, Wallace J, Kim SY, Kalyanasundaram S, Andalman AS, Davidson TJ, Mirzabekov JJ, Zalocusky KA, Mattis J, Denisin AK, […]

Issues in scientific communiciation

Just come across these two great TED talks by Ben Goldacre that talks about how the information in scientific literature can be distorted and why not all information that is essential for medical advance can be found in the literature. It is really a flaw in the research system and human nature that positive and […]

The public’s discussion on open access to scientific research

I have been paying attention to the ongoing discussion on open access to scientific research in the news media and have collected a number of interesting articles.  Here I will keep a record of a few interesting ones 2012-11-08 From the Guardian: “Open Access: ‘we no longer need expensive publishing networks‘” 2012-06-19 From the New […]