Skip to content

Tag Archives: CRISPR-CAS

2016-02-01 new articles we read this week

Molecular Biology Weingarten-Gabbay S, Elias-Kirma S, Nir R, Gritsenko AA, Stern-Ginossar N, Yakhini Z, Weinberger A, Segal E. Comparative genetics. Systematic discovery of cap-independent translation sequences in human and viral genomes. Science. 2016 Jan 15;351(6270). pii: aad4939. doi: 10.1126/science.aad4939. Epub 2016 Jan 14. PubMed PMID: 26816383. Bernecky C, Herzog F, Baumeister W, Plitzko JM, Cramer […]

2016-01-25 new articles we read this week

Eye diseases Bailey JN, Loomis SJ, Kang JH, Allingham RR, Gharahkhani P, Khor CC, Burdon KP, Aschard H, Chasman DI, Igo RP Jr, Hysi PG, Glastonbury CA, Ashley-Koch A, Brilliant M, Brown AA, Budenz DL, Buil A, Cheng CY, Choi H, Christen WG, Curhan G, De Vivo I, Fingert JH, Foster PJ, Fuchs C, Gaasterland […]

2016-01-04 new articles we read this week

Eye disease Fritsche LG, et al. A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants. Nat Genet. 2015 Dec 21. doi: 10.1038/ng.3448. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26691988. Zebrafish Behaviour Prykhozhij SV, Rajan V, Berman JN. A Guide to Computational Tools and Design Strategies for Genome Editing […]

2015-12-29 New articles we read this week

Genomics Blomen VA, Májek P, Jae LT, Bigenzahn JW, Nieuwenhuis J, Staring J, Sacco R, van Diemen FR, Olk N, Stukalov A, Marceau C, Janssen H, Carette JE, Bennett KL, Colinge J, Superti-Furga G, Brummelkamp TR. Gene essentiality and synthetic lethality in haploid human cells. Science. 2015 Nov 27;350(6264):1092-6. doi: 10.1126/science.aac7557. Epub 2015 Oct 15. […]

2015-11-30 New articles we read this week

Imaging Ariotti N, Hall TE, Rae J, Ferguson C, McMahon KA, Martel N, Webb RE, Webb RI, Teasdale RD, Parton RG. Modular Detection of GFP-Labeled Proteins for Rapid Screening by Electron Microscopy in Cells and Organisms. Dev Cell. 2015 Nov 11. pii: S1534-5807(15)00681-4. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2015.10.016. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26585296. Genomics Bhaduri A, […]

2015-11-23 New articles we read … for a while

Genome editing Knight SC, Xie L, Deng W, Guglielmi B, Witkowsky LB, Bosanac L, Zhang ET, El Beheiry M, Masson JB, Dahan M, Liu Z, Doudna JA, Tjian R. Dynamics of CRISPR-Cas9 genome interrogation in living cells. Science. 2015 Nov 13;350(6262):823-6. doi: 10.1126/science.aac6572. PubMed PMID: 26564855. Kiani S, Chavez A, Tuttle M, Hall RN, Chari […]

2015-01-31 Articles we read this week

Cancer Tomasetti C, Vogelstein B. Cancer etiology. Variation in cancer risk among tissues can be explained by the number of stem cell divisions. Science. 2015 Jan 2;347(6217):78-81. doi: 10.1126/science.1260825. PubMed PMID: 25554788. Commentary: Wodarz D, Zauber AG. Cancer: Risk factors and random chances. Nature. 2015 Jan 29;517(7536):563-4. doi: 10.1038/517563a. PubMed PMID: 25631443. Commentary: Couzin-Frankel J. […]

2015-01-10 new articles we read this week

Retinal development Masuda T, Zhang X, Berlinicke C, Wan J, Yerrabelli A, Conner EA, Kjellstrom S, Bush R, Thorgeirsson SS, Swaroop A, Chen S, Zack DJ. The Transcription Factor GTF2IRD1 Regulates the Topology and Function of Photoreceptors by Modulating Photoreceptor Gene Expression across the Retina. J Neurosci. 2014 Nov 12;34(46):15356-68. Okabe K, Kobayashi S, Yamada […]

2014-07-20 new articles we read this week

Nature’s special on “Challenges in irreproducible research” Human Behaviour/Psychology Kramer AD, Guillory JE, Hancock JT. Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Jun 17;111(24):8788-90. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1320040111. Epub 2014 Jun 2. PubMed PMID: 24889601. This is THE controversial experiment by facebook. News coverage: Facebook emotion study […]

2014-07-05 New articles we read this week

Systems biology Levo M, Segal E. In pursuit of design principles of regulatory sequences. Nat Rev Genet. 2014 Jul;15(7):453-68. doi: 10.1038/nrg3684. Epub 2014 Jun 10. PubMed PMID: 24913666. Patel AP, Tirosh I, Trombetta JJ, Shalek AK, Gillespie SM, Wakimoto H, Cahill DP, Nahed BV, Curry WT, Martuza RL, Louis DN, Rozenblatt-Rosen O, Suvà ML, Regev […]