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2011-03-27 new articles we read this week

Systems Biology

  1. CELL Review issue: Systems Biology
    1. Systems Biology: What’s the Next Challenge?
    2. Macilwain C. Systems biology: evolving into the mainstream. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):839-41. PubMed PMID: 21414474.
    3. Arkin AP, Schaffer DV. Network news: innovations in 21st century systems biology. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):844-9. PubMed PMID: 21414475.
    4. Nurse P, Hayles J. The cell in an era of systems biology. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):850-4. PubMed PMID: 21414476.
    5. Smolke CD, Silver PA. Informing biological design by integration of systems and synthetic biology. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):855-9. PubMed PMID: 21414477.
    6. Ideker T, Dutkowski J, Hood L. Boosting Signal-to-Noise in Complex Biology: Prior Knowledge Is Power. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):860-3. PubMed PMID: 21414478.
    7. Pe’er D, Hacohen N. Principles and strategies for developing network models in cancer. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):864-73. PubMed PMID: 21414479.
    8. Ferrell JE Jr, Tsai TY, Yang Q. Modeling the cell cycle: why do certain circuits oscillate? Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):874-85. PubMed PMID: 21414480.
    9. Yosef N, Regev A. Impulse control: temporal dynamics in gene transcription. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):886-96. PubMed PMID: 21414481.
    10. Grecco HE, Schmick M, Bastiaens PI. Signaling from the living plasma membrane. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):897-909. PubMed PMID: 21414482.
    11. Balázsi G, van Oudenaarden A, Collins JJ. Cellular decision making and biological noise: from microbes to mammals. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):910-25. PubMed PMID: 21414483.
    12. Spencer SL, Sorger PK. Measuring and modeling apoptosis in single cells. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):926-39. PubMed PMID: 21414484.
    13. Young RA. Control of the embryonic stem cell state. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):940-54. PubMed PMID: 21414485.
    14. Lander AD. Pattern, growth, and control. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):955-69. PubMed PMID: 21414486.
    15. Peter IS, Davidson EH. Evolution of gene regulatory networks controlling body plan development. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):970-85. PubMed PMID: 21414487.
    16. Vidal M, Cusick ME, Barabási AL. Interactome networks and human disease. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):986-98. PubMed PMID: 21414488.
    17. Seebacher J, Gavin AC. SnapShot: Protein-Protein Interaction Networks. Cell. 2011 Mar 18;144(6):1000-1000.e1. PubMed PMID: 21414489.

Stem cells

  1. NATURE REVIEW GENETICS: Focus on: Stem cells
    1. González F, Boué S, Belmonte JC. Methods for making induced pluripotent stem cells: reprogramming à la carte. Nat Rev Genet. 2011 Apr;12(4):231-42. Epub 2011 Feb 22. PubMed PMID: 21339765.
    2. Cohen DE, Melton D. Turning straw into gold: directing cell fate for regenerative medicine. Nat Rev Genet. 2011 Apr;12(4):243-52. Epub 2011 Mar 9. PubMed PMID: 21386864.
    3. Plath K, Lowry WE. Progress in understanding reprogramming to the induced pluripotent state. Nat Rev Genet. 2011 Apr;12(4):253-65. PubMed PMID: 21415849.
    4. Zhu H, Lensch MW, Cahan P, Daley GQ. Investigating monogenic and complex diseases with pluripotent stem cells. Nat Rev Genet. 2011 Apr;12(4):266-75. Epub 2011 Mar 9. PubMed PMID: 21386866.
    5. Montgomery SB, Dermitzakis ET. From expression QTLs to personalized transcriptomics. Nat Rev Genet. 2011 Apr;12(4):277-82. Epub 2011 Mar 9. PubMed PMID: 21386863.
    6. Ong CT, Corces VG. Enhancer function: new insights into the regulation of tissue-specific gene expression. Nat Rev Genet. 2011 Apr;12(4):283-93. Epub 2011 Mar 1. PubMed PMID: 21358745.
  2. Ledford H. Hidden toll of embryo ethics war. Nature. 2011 Mar 17;471(7338):279. PubMed PMID: 21412306.
  3. Abbott A. Europe rules against stem-cell patents. Nature. 2011 Mar 17;471(7338):280. PubMed PMID: 21412307.

Neuroscience

  1. Bock DD, Lee WC, Kerlin AM, Andermann ML, Hood G, Wetzel AW, Yurgenson S, Soucy ER, Kim HS, Reid RC. Network anatomy and in vivo physiology of visual cortical neurons. Nature. 2011 Mar 10;471(7337):177-82. PubMed PMID: 21390124.
  2. Briggman KL, Helmstaedter M, Denk W. Wiring specificity in the direction-selectivity circuit of the retina. Nature. 2011 Mar 10;471(7337):183-8. PubMed PMID: 21390125.
    • Commentary: Seung HS. Neuroscience: Towards functional connectomics. Nature. 2011 Mar 10;471(7337):170-2. PubMed PMID: 2139011

Retinal pigment epithelium

  1. Iacovelli J, Zhao C, Wolkow N, Veldman P, Gollomp K, Ojha P, Lukinova N, King A, Feiner L, Esumi N, Zack DJ, Pierce EA, Vollrath D, Dunaief JL. Generation of Cre Transgenic Mice with Postnatal RPE-Specific Ocular Expression. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2011 Mar 14;52(3):1378-83. Print 2011 Mar. PubMed PMID: 21212186.

Regeneration

  1. Kikuchi K, Holdway JE, Major RJ, Blum N, Dahn RD, Begemann G, Poss KD. Retinoic Acid production by endocardium and epicardium is an injury response essential for zebrafish heart regeneration. Dev Cell. 2011 Mar 15;20(3):397-404. PubMed PMID: 21397850.

Retina

  1. Mollema NJ, Yuan Y, Jelcick AS, Sachs AJ, von Alpen D, Schorderet D, Escher P, Haider NB. Nuclear Receptor Rev-erb Alpha (Nr1d1) Functions in Concert with Nr2e3 to Regulate Transcriptional Networks in the Retina. PLoS One. 2011 Mar 8;6(3):e17494. PubMed PMID: 21408158.
  2. Minke B, Peters M. Cell biology. Rhodopsin as thermosensor? Science. 2011 Mar 11;331(6022):1272-3. PubMed PMID: 21393531.

Eye disease

  1. Volkmann BA, Zinkevich NS, Mustonen A, Schilter KF, Bosenko DV, Reis LM, Broeckel U, Link BA, Semina E. Potential novel mechanism for Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome: deletion of a distant region containing regulatory elements of PITX2. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2010 Sep 29. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20881290.
  2. Kaneko H, Dridi S, Tarallo V, Gelfand BD, Fowler BJ, Cho WG, Kleinman ME, Ponicsan SL, Hauswirth WW, Chiodo VA, Karikó K, Yoo JW, Lee DK, Hadziahmetovic M, Song Y, Misra S, Chaudhuri G, Buaas FW, Braun RE, Hinton DR, Zhang Q, Grossniklaus HE, Provis JM, Madigan MC, Milam AH, Justice NL, Albuquerque RJ, Blandford AD, Bogdanovich S, Hirano Y, Witta J, Fuchs E, Littman DR, Ambati BK, Rudin CM, Chong MM, Provost P, Kugel JF, Goodrich JA, Dunaief JL, Baffi JZ, Ambati J. DICER1 deficit induces Alu RNA toxicity in age-related macular degeneration. Nature. 2011 Mar 17;471(7338):325-30. Epub 2011 Feb 6. PubMed PMID: 21297615.
    1. Commentary: Meister G. Vision: Dicer leaps into view. Nature. 2011 Mar 17;471(7338):308-9. PubMed PMID: 21412326.
    • A new way of causing geographical atrophy by an unknown role of DICER.

Disease

  1. Kawahara G, Karpf JA, Myers JA, Alexander MS, Guyon JR, Kunkel LM. Drug screening in a zebrafish model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Mar 14. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 21402949.

Behavior

  1. Cachat J, Stewart A, Utterback E, Hart P, Gaikwad S, Wong K, Kyzar E, Wu N, Kalueff AV. Three-dimensional neurophenotyping of adult zebrafish behavior. PLoS One. 2011 Mar 7;6(3):e17597. PubMed PMID: 21408171.

Development

  1. England SJ, Blanchard GB, Mahadevan L, Adams RJ. A dynamic fate map of the forebrain shows how vertebrate eyes form and explains two causes of cyclopia. Development. 2006 Dec;133(23):4613-7. Epub 2006 Nov 1. PubMed PMID: 17079266.
  2. Publicover S, Barratt C. Reproductive biology: Progesterone’s gateway into sperm. Nature. 2011 Mar 17;471(7338):313-4. PubMed PMID: 21412330.
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