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Navigating the Scientific LiteratureJohn Borghi, PhD | @JohnBorghi

Liang, P., Xu, Y., Zhang, X., Ding, C., Huang, R., Zhang, Z., ... & Huang, J. (2015). CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes.Protein & Cell, 1-10.

Noble, K. G., Houston, S. M., Brito, N. H., Bartsch, H., Kan, E., Kuperman, J. M., ... & Sowell, E. R. (2015). Family income, parental education and brain structure in children and adolescents. Nature Neuroscience, 18, 773–778.

Searching the Scientific Literature

• Allow Time

• Isolate Objective

• Document Carefully

• Be Selective

• Verify

• Know When to Quit

• What search are you doing?

– Exploratory

– Specific research question

– Searching for a particular article

Searching the Scientific Literature

Adapted from the International University of Bremen

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Let’s Search For Some Stuff!

Human genome editing with CRISPR

The relationship between parental education and neuroscience

The relationship between thinking and brain cancer

Let’s Search For Some Stuff!

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Gong, L. I., Suchard, M. A., & Bloom, J. D. (2013). Stability-mediated epistasis constrains the evolution of an influenza protein. Elife, 2, e00631.

Karnowski, A., Chevrier, S., Belz, G. T., Mount, A., Emslie, D., D’Costa, K., ... & Corcoran, L. M. (2012). B and T cells collaborate in antiviral responses via IL-6, IL-21, and transcriptional activator and coactivator, Oct2 and OBF-1. The Journal of experimental medicine, 209(11), 2049-2064.

Bernier, U. R., Kline, D. L., Allan, S. A., & Barnard, D. R. (2015). Laboratory Studies of Aedes aegypti attraction to ketones, sulfides, and primary chloroalkanestested alone and in combination with l-lactic acid. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association, 31(1), 63-70.

Wang, N., Li, Y., Niu, W., Sun, M., Cerny, R., Li, Q., & Guo, J. (2014). Construction of a live‐attenuated HIV‐1 vaccine through genetic code expansion. AngewandteChemie, 126(19), 4967-4971.

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