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August 9, 2014

8/9/2014

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A fantastic paper on patterning of the limb bud to form digits
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6196/566.full
This paper makes me sad because (i) we do not have a dev bio journal club and (ii) I let my math skills rot for way too many years.

A really cool technical development: see-through mice.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867414009313
Not quite the invisible man, but awesome regardless.

And two great papers on the analysis of developmental enhancers in Drosophila
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v512/n7512/full/nature13395.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v512/n7512/full/nature13417.html
We now have the tools to do the same in zebrafish. But will we do it?

Win-win choices cause the most stress.
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/30/10978.full
Only in very sophisticated people can the choice of accepting job offers from Princeton or Harvard (or which Ben&Jerry's ice cream to devour) cause more stress than the choice of stealing food or staying hungry. That’s just common sense.

Then the postdocs interviewed for this piece are not really stressed because they are not in these terrible win-win situations:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6196/594.full
If something seems too good to be true…

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-28490099

… it’s probably on the internet. 

Enjoy your weekend.

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