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January 31, 2014

1/31/2014

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A really cool (and simple) way to make induced Pluripotent Stem cells.
http://www.nature.com/news/acid-bath-offers-easy-path-to-stem-cells-1.14600
The editors at Science took on the challenge to out-Cyrusify (see my Jan 10 blob) Nature. 

First: ladies, stay away from Neanderthal men. Your male offspring my turn out to not be so great after all.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6170/471.summary
Second: stay away from men altogether- if you want to live long:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6170/491.summary
That's pretty much the whole issue. Yep.

Metabolism of retinoic acid in lens regeneration:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012160613006982
We do have a gene trap allele of the zebrafish cyp26c1, but there may be too much redundancy…

And last but not least, here is an awesome tool for functional analysis of enhancers:
http://dev.biologists.org/content/141/3/715.full

Better yet- it's available in the lab. I know, I have no shame and my self-promotion has no limits :-)

Have fun!

Darius

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