Category Archives: Citation

Defining an olfactory receptor function in airway smooth muscle cells

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Alex

December 2016 Authors: William H. Aisenberg, Jessie Huang, Wanqu Zhu, Premraj Rajkumar, et al. Info: Scientists at Johns Hopkins University, Rutgers, and other institutions teamed up to study receptors in airway smooth muscle cells that appear to play a role … more »

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The mammalian LINC complex regulates genome transcriptional responses to substrate rigidity

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Alex

December 2016 Authors: Samer G. Alam, Qiao Zhang, Nripesh Prasad, Yuan Li, Srikar Chamala, et al. Info: Researchers from the HudsonAlpha Institute, the University of Florida, and other institutions studied the role of rigidity in the extracellular matrix, finding that … more »

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Selective Y centromere inactivation triggers chromosome shattering in micronuclei and repair by non-homologous end joining

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Alex

December 2016 Authors: Peter Ly, Levi S. Teitz, Dong H. Kim, Ofer Shoshani, Helen Skaletsky, Daniele Fachinetti, David C. Page, and Don W. Cleveland Info: Scientists report developing a strategy to examine what happens when chromosomes do not segregate properly. … more »

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Susceptibility to Aminoglycosides and Distribution of aph and aac(3)-XI Genes among Corynebacterium striatum Clinical Isolates

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Alex

December 2016 Authors: Jesús Navas, Marta Fernández-Martínez, Carlos Salas, María Eliecer Cano, Luis Martínez-Martínez Info: Scientists in Spain analyzed several strains of the pathogen Corynebacterium striatum and found that many were resistant to drugs most commonly used to treat these … more »

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Single-Molecule Sequencing (PacBio) of the Staphylococcuscapitis NRCS-A Clone Reveals the Basis of Multidrug Resistance and Adaptation to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Environment

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Alex

December 2016 Authors: Patrícia MartinsSimões, HajarLemriss, YannDumont, SanâaLemriss, et al. Info: Scientists in France and Morocco fully sequenced the genome and accessory genome of a Staphylococcus capitis clone that has proven resistant to many drugs and is particularly detrimental to … more »

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Generation of Full-Length Class I Human Leukocyte Antigen Gene Consensus Sequences for Novel Allele Characterization

Posted on December 9, 2016 by Alex

December 2016 Authors: Peter M. Clark, Jamie L. Duke, Deborah Ferriola, Valia Bravo-Egana, Tunde Vago, Aniqa Hassan, Anna Papazoglou, and Dimitri Monos Info: Scientists from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia evaluated an NGS-based HLA typing kit from Omixon. They analyzed … more »

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Plasmids from Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Strains with Rare Enterohemolysin Gene (ehxA) Subtypes Reveal Pathogenicity Potential and Display a Novel Evolutionary Path

Posted on December 9, 2016 by Alex

November 2016 Authors: Sandra C. Lorenz, Steven R. Monday, Maria Hoffmann, Markus Fischer and Julie A. Kase Info: Scientists from the US FDA and the University of Hamburg used PacBio sequencing to characterize plasmids associated with heightened virulence in Shiga … more »

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Very Short Mitochondrial DNA Fragments and Heteroplasmy in Human Plasma

Posted on December 9, 2016 by Alex

November 2016 Authors: Ruoyu Zhang, Kiichi Nakahira, Xiaoxian Guo, Augustine M.K. Choi & Zhenglong Gu Info: Scientists at Cornell University studied cell-free mitochondrial DNA found in plasma samples collected from sepsis patients. Along the way, they optimized sample prep protocols … more »

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Depletion of tRNA-halves enables effective small RNA sequencing of low-input murine serum samples

Posted on December 8, 2016 by Alex

November 2016 Authors: Alan Van Goethem, Nurten Yigit, Celine Everaert, Myrthala Moreno-Smith, et al. Info: Scientists at Ghent University and Baylor College of Medicine evaluated protocols for depleting abundant RNAs from blood and serum samples to improve the ability to … more »

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Structure of the germline genome of Tetrahymena thermophila and relationship to the massively rearranged somatic genome

Posted on December 8, 2016 by Alex

November 2016 Authors: Eileen P Hamilton, Aurélie Kapusta, Piroska E Huvos, Shelby L Bidwell, et al. Info: A large team of scientists in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. collaborated for this study of Tetrahymena thermophile, for which they produced a complete sequence assembly. They … more »

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