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2016-02-15 new articles we read this week

Scientific publishing

  1. Gibney E. Open journals that piggyback on arXiv gather momentum. Nature. 2016 Feb 4;530(7588):117-8. PubMed PMID: 26854297.

Genome editing

  1. 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.
  2. Alphey L. Can CRISPR-Cas9 gene drives curb malaria? Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Feb 5;34(2):149-50. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3473. PubMed PMID: 26849518.
  3. Rajagopal N, Srinivasan S, Kooshesh K, Guo Y, Edwards MD, Banerjee B, Syed T, Emons BJ, Gifford DK, Sherwood RI. High-throughput mapping of regulatory DNA. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Feb;34(2):167-74. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3468. Epub 2016 Jan 25. PubMed PMID: 26807528.
  4. Korkmaz G, Lopes R, Ugalde AP, Nevedomskaya E, Han R, Myacheva K, Zwart W, Elkon R, Agami R. Functional genetic screens for enhancer elements in the human genome using CRISPR-Cas9. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Feb;34(2):192-8. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3450. Epub 2016 Jan 11. PubMed PMID: 26751173.
  5. Zhou Y, Wei W. Mapping regulatory elements. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Feb 5;34(2):151-2. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3477. PubMed PMID: 26849519.
  6. Doench JG, Fusi N, Sullender M, Hegde M, Vaimberg EW, Donovan KF, Smith I, Tothova Z, Wilen C, Orchard R, Virgin HW, Listgarten J, Root DE. Optimized sgRNA design to maximize activity and minimize off-target effects of CRISPR-Cas9. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Feb;34(2):184-91. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3437. Epub 2016 Jan 18. PubMed PMID: 26780180; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4744125.
  7. Farasat I, Salis HM. A Biophysical Model of CRISPR/Cas9 Activity for Rational Design of Genome Editing and Gene Regulation. PLoS Comput Biol. 2016 Jan 29;12(1):e1004724. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004724. eCollection 2016 Jan. PubMed PMID: 26824432; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4732943.

Neuroscience

  1. Fuzik J, Zeisel A, Máté Z, Calvigioni D, Yanagawa Y, Szabó G, Linnarsson S, Harkany T. Integration of electrophysiological recordings with single-cell RNA-seq data identifies neuronal subtypes. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Feb;34(2):175-83. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3443. Epub 2015 Dec 21. PubMed PMID: 26689544.
  2. Cadwell CR, Palasantza A, Jiang X, Berens P, Deng Q, Yilmaz M, Reimer J, Shen S, Bethge M, Tolias KF, Sandberg R, Tolias AS. Electrophysiological, transcriptomic and morphologic profiling of single neurons using Patch-seq. Nat Biotechnol. 2016 Feb;34(2):199-203. doi: 10.1038/nbt.3445. Epub 2015 Dec 21. PubMed PMID: 26689543.

Disease

  1. Mlakar J, Korva M, Tul N, Popović M, Poljšak-Prijatelj M, Mraz J, Kolenc M, Resman Rus K, Vesnaver Vipotnik T, Fabjan Vodušek V, Vizjak A, Pižem J, Petrovec M, Avšič Županc T. Zika Virus Associated with Microcephaly. N Engl J Med. 2016 Feb 10. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26862926.

ESLI

  1. Baker M. Biotech giant publishes failures to confirm high-profile science. Nature. 2016 Feb 11;530(7589):141. doi: 10.1038/nature.2016.19269. PubMed PMID: 26863961.

Stem cells

  1. Chakradhar S. An eye to the future: Researchers debate best path for stem cell-derived therapies. Nat Med. 2016 Feb 4;22(2):116-9. doi: 10.1038/nm0216-116. PubMed PMID: 26845400.
  2. Scognamiglio R, Cabezas-Wallscheid N, Thier MC, Altamura S, Reyes A, Prendergast ÁM, Baumgärtner D, Carnevalli LS, Atzberger A, Haas S, von Paleske L, Boroviak T, Wörsdörfer P, Essers MA, Kloz U, Eisenman RN, Edenhofer F, Bertone P, Huber W, van der Hoeven F, Smith A, Trumpp A. Myc Depletion Induces a Pluripotent Dormant State Mimicking Diapause. Cell. 2016 Feb 11;164(4):668-80. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.033. PubMed PMID: 26871632.

Systems Biology

  1. Yang X, Coulombe-Huntington J, Kang S, Sheynkman GM, Hao T, Richardson A, Sun S, Yang F, Shen YA, Murray RR, Spirohn K, Begg BE, Duran-Frigola M, MacWilliams A, Pevzner SJ, Zhong Q, Trigg SA, Tam S, Ghamsari L, Sahni N, Yi S, Rodriguez MD, Balcha D, Tan G, Costanzo M, Andrews B, Boone C, Zhou XJ, Salehi-Ashtiani K, Charloteaux B, Chen AA, Calderwood MA, Aloy P, Roth FP, Hill DE, Iakoucheva LM, Xia Y, Vidal M. Widespread Expansion of Protein Interaction Capabilities by Alternative Splicing. Cell. 2016 Feb 11;164(4):805-17. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.01.029. PubMed PMID: 26871637.
  2. Morsut L, Roybal KT, Xiong X, Gordley RM, Coyle SM, Thomson M, Lim WA. Engineering Customized Cell Sensing and Response Behaviors Using Synthetic Notch Receptors. Cell. 2016 Feb 11;164(4):780-91. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.01.012. Epub 2016 Jan 28. PubMed PMID: 26830878; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4752866.
  3. Tsiairis CD, Aulehla A. Self-Organization of Embryonic Genetic Oscillators into Spatiotemporal Wave Patterns. Cell. 2016 Feb 11;164(4):656-67. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.01.028. PubMed PMID: 26871631.
  4. Sylwestrak EL, Rajasethupathy P, Wright MA, Jaffe A, Deisseroth K. Multiplexed Intact-Tissue Transcriptional Analysis at Cellular Resolution. Cell. 2016 Feb 11;164(4):792-804. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.01.038. PubMed PMID: 26871636.

Development

  1. Tsiairis CD, Aulehla A. Self-Organization of Embryonic Genetic Oscillators into Spatiotemporal Wave Patterns. Cell. 2016 Feb 11;164(4):656-67. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.01.028. PubMed PMID: 26871631.