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My visit to the School of Optometry of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Saturday, August 6, 2016

On July 20th 2016, I was invited by Dr. Chi-ho To, Professor and Head, and Dr. Chi-wai Do to visit the School of Optometry of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. This is the leading Optometry school in Hong Kong and Asia. They have also been conducting many research programs that lead to translational products that […]

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My visit to Dr. Zi-Bing Jin’s group at the Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University

Saturday, August 6, 2016

On July 18th and 19th of 2016, I was invited by Dr. Zi-Bing Jin to visit his research group at the Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University in Wenzhou, China again. They are doing amazing work on various aspects of ophthalmology, from human genetics, stem cells, microRNAs to zebrafish. We have been working together on […]

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2016-07-06 new articles we read this week

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Development Baxendale S, Whitfield TT. Methods to study the development, anatomy, and function of the zebrafish inner ear across the life course. Methods Cell Biol. 2016;134:165-209. doi: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2016.02.007. Epub 2016 Mar 9. PubMed PMID: 27312494. Simoes-Costa M, Bronner ME. Reprogramming of avian neural crest axial identity and cell fate. Science. 2016 Jun 24;352(6293):1570-3. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf2729. […]

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2016-06-07 new articles we read this week

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

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. […]

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2016-03-28 new articles we read this week

Monday, March 28, 2016

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 […]

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A good development in scientific publishing

Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Several interesting and good discussions on publishing life science articles on BioRxiv, a preprint server based on the arXiv model: From the New York Times: “Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet“. From Mike Eisen’s blog.

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2016-03-21 new articles we read this week

Monday, March 21, 2016

Eye diseases Lin H, Ouyang H, Zhu J, Huang S, Liu Z, Chen S, Cao G, Li G, Signer RA, Xu Y, Chung C, Zhang Y, Lin D, Patel S, Wu F, Cai H, Hou J, Wen C, Jafari M, Liu X, Luo L, Zhu J, Qiu A, Hou R, Chen B, Chen J, Granet […]

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2016-03-07 new articles we read this week

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Genomics Bintu L, Yong J, Antebi YE, McCue K, Kazuki Y, Uno N, Oshimura M, Elowitz MB. Dynamics of epigenetic regulation at the single-cell level. Science. 2016 Feb 12;351(6274):720-4. doi: 10.1126/science.aab2956. PubMed PMID: 26912859. Commentary: Keung AJ, Khalil AS. MOLECULAR BIOLOGY. A unifying model of epigenetic regulation. Science. 2016 Feb 12;351(6274):661-2. doi: 10.1126/science.aaf1647. PubMed PMID: […]

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Cheap visual aid for people with poor vision

Sunday, February 28, 2016

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. […]

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2016-02-22 new articles we read this week

Monday, February 22, 2016

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 […]

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