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	Exceptional
F1000 Factor 8.1

Hypothesis

New Finding

A mechanism for asymmetric segregation of age during yeast budding.
Shcheprova Z, Baldi S, …, Gonnet G, Barral Y
Nature 2008 Aug 7 454(7205):728-34 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]

Selected by | Yukiko Yamashita / Thomas Nystrom / Audrey Gasch
First evaluation 7 Aug 2008 | Latest evaluation 22 Aug 2008

	Recommended
F1000 Factor 3.0

Tech Advance

Caenorhabditis elegans mutant allele identification by whole-genome sequencing.
Sarin S, Prabhu S, …, Pe'er I, Hobert O
Nat Methods 2008 Aug 1 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text]

Selected by | Bob Goldstein
Evaluated 22 Aug 2008

	Exceptional
F1000 Factor 8.5

Confirmation

Hypothesis

New Finding

Centrosome Dysfunction in Drosophila Neural Stem Cells Causes Tumors that Are Not due to Genome Instability.
Castellanos E, Dominguez P, Gonzalez C
Curr Biol 2008 Jul 23 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text]

Selected by | Sharad Kumar / Anna Akhmanova / Yukiko Yamashita / Kristin White / Marcos Gonzalez-Gaitan
First evaluation 31 Jul 2008 | Latest evaluation 14 Aug 2008

	Exceptional
F1000 Factor 9.9

Hypothesis

New Finding

Transcriptome-wide noise controls lineage choice in mammalian progenitor cells.
Chang HH, Hemberg M, …, Ingber DE, Huang S
Nature 2008 May 22 453(7194):544-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]

Selected by | Thomas Graf / Alfonso Martinez Arias / Stephen Schwartz
First evaluation 22 Jul 2008 | Latest evaluation 31 Jul 2008

	Exceptional
F1000 Factor 8.0

Hypothesis

New Finding

Novel Drug Target

An elt-3/elt-5/elt-6 GATA transcription circuit guides aging in C. elegans.
Budovskaya YV, Wu K, …, Johnson TE, Kim SK
Cell 2008 Jul 25 134(2):291-303 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]

Selected by | Nektarios Tavernarakis / Susan Mango
First evaluation 12 Aug 2008 | Latest evaluation 13 Aug 2008

	Exceptional
F1000 Factor 14.5

Hypothesis

New Finding

Controversial

Genome-wide non-mendelian inheritance of extra-genomic information in Arabidopsis.
Lolle SJ, Victor JL, Young JM, Pruitt RE
Nature 2005 Mar 24 434(7032):505-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]

Selected by | Frank Lyko / Shigeru Iida / Kay Schneitz / Judy Wall / Marjori Matzke / James Carrington / Jose Luis Riechmann / Christian Hardtke / John Bowman / James Hu / Caren Chang / Venkatesan Sundaresan / Philip Benfey / Stephan Beck / Magnus Nordborg / Neelima Sinha / Martin Parniske / Elena Alvarez-Buylla / Elizabeth Kellogg / Elizabeth Hood
Dissenters | Alejandro Sanchez-Alvarado
First evaluation 24 Mar 2005 | Latest evaluation 24 May 2005

	Recommended
F1000 Factor 3.0

New Finding

Differences in early lineage segregation between mammals.
Kuijk EW, Du Puy L, …, Colenbrander B, Roelen BA
Dev Dyn 2008 Apr 237(4):918-27 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]

Selected by | Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz with Samantha Morris
Evaluated 18 Aug 2008

	Exceptional
F1000 Factor 12.3

New Finding

Tech Advance

Transgenic strategies for combinatorial expression of fluorescent proteins in the nervous system.
Livet J, Weissman TA, …, Sanes JR, Lichtman JW
Nature 2007 Nov 1 450(7166):56-62 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]

Selected by | Kees Jalink / Alain Ghysen / Jonathan Sweedler / Liqun Luo / Catherine Krull / Markus Ruegg / Stanley Appel / David P. Wolfer / Andy Groves / Bruce Cumming / Guoping Feng / Edvard I. Moser / Etienne Joly / Martine Roussel
First evaluation 8 Nov 2007 | Latest evaluation 22 Jan 2008

	Must Read
F1000 Factor 6.0

New Finding

IGFBP-4 is an inhibitor of canonical Wnt signalling required for cardiogenesis.
Zhu W, Shiojima I, …, Asashima M, Komuro I
Nature 2008 Jul 17 454(7202):345-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]

Selected by | Patrick Tam
Evaluated 14 Aug 2008

	Must Read
F1000 Factor 6.0

Hypothesis

New Finding

Autophagy is essential for preimplantation development of mouse embryos.
Tsukamoto S, Kuma A, …, Yamamoto A, Mizushima N
Science 2008 Jul 4 321(5885):117-20 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]

Selected by | Timothy Karr

Evaluated 27 Aug 2008

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