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2014-01-30 New articles we read this week

Stem cells A young scientist in Japan has found a simple approach to make totipotent stem cells by lowering the pH. Stimulus-triggered fate conversion of somatic cells into pluripotency. Nature Bidirectional developmental potential in reprogrammed cells with acquired pluripotency. Nature Cell biology: Potency unchained. Nature commentary BBC news: Stem cell ‘major discovery’ claimed Boston Globe: […]

2013-12-28 New articles we read this week

Neuroscience Widmann A, Schröger E. Filter effects and filter artifacts in the analysis of  electrophysiological data. Front Psychol. 2012 Jul 9;3:233. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00233. eCollection 2012. PubMed PMID: 22787453; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3391960. Hsiao EY, McBride SW, Hsien S, Sharon G, Hyde ER, McCue T, Codelli JA, Chow J, Reisman SE, Petrosino JF, Patterson PH, Mazmanian SK. Microbiota modulate behavioral […]

2013-08-18 New articles we read this week

Stem cells Hou P, Li Y, Zhang X, Liu C, Guan J, Li H, Zhao T, Ye J, Yang W, Liu K, Ge J, Xu J, Zhang Q, Zhao Y, Deng H. Pluripotent stem cells induced from mouse somatic cells by small-molecule compounds. Science. 2013 Aug 9;341(6146):651-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1239278. Epub 2013 Jul 18. PubMed PMID: […]

2013-04-07 Articles we read this week

Genetics Zu Y, Tong X, Wang Z, Liu D, Pan R, Li Z, Hu Y, Luo Z, Huang P, Wu Q, Zhu Z, Zhang B, Lin S. TALEN-mediated precise genome modification by homologous recombination in zebrafish. Nat Methods. 2013 Feb 24. doi: 10.1038/nmeth.2374. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 23435258. Chang N, Sun C, Gao […]

An interesting article about the resolution of retina display and the resolving power of retina

Since our lab is studying retina, I am intrigued in reading this article about the limitation of retina display by Apple, how we see and the future of developing better displays. From cultofmac by John Brownlee: Why Retina Isn’t Enough Apple’s new MacBook Pro follows the fine tradition of the iPhone 4 and third-gen iPad […]

A good review paper on the architecture of retina

I read several classic papers when I am planning projects with some of you. This is a very good review paper on the fundamental architecture of retina. There are a lot useful histological facts and observations. It has great discussions on how the retinal architecture has evolved and in turn provides the necessary visual functions […]