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Identification of evolutionarily conserved exons as regulated targets for the splicing activator tra2β in development (2011)
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Grellscheid, S., Dalgliesh, C., Storbeck, M., Best, A., Liu, Y., Jakubik, M., Mende, Y., Ehrmann, I., Curk, T., Rossbach, K., Bourgeois, C. F., Stévenin, J., Grellscheid, D., Jackson, M. S., Wirth, B., & Elliott, D. J. (2011). Identification of evolutionarily conserved exons as regulated targets for the splicing activator tra2β in development. PLoS Genetics, 7(12), Article e1002390. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1002390

Alternative splicing amplifies the information content of the genome, creating multiple mRNA isoforms from single genes. The evolutionarily conserved splicing activator Tra2β (Sfrs10) is essential for mouse embryogenesis and implicated in spermatogen... Read More about Identification of evolutionarily conserved exons as regulated targets for the splicing activator tra2β in development.

Guided transport of ultracold gases of rubidium up to a room-temperature dielectric surface (2011)
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Marchant, A., Händel, S., Wiles, T., Hopkins, S., & Cornish, S. (2011). Guided transport of ultracold gases of rubidium up to a room-temperature dielectric surface. New Journal of Physics, 13(12), https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/13/12/125003

Part of Focus on Modern Frontiers of Matter Wave Optics and Interferometry: We report on the guided transport of an atomic sample along an optical waveguide up to a room-temperature dielectric surface. The technique exploits a simple hybrid trap cons... Read More about Guided transport of ultracold gases of rubidium up to a room-temperature dielectric surface.

Nanomagnetic engineering of the properties of domain wall atom traps (2011)
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Hayward, T., West, A., Weatherill, K., Schrefl, T., Hughes, I., & Allwood, D. (2011). Nanomagnetic engineering of the properties of domain wall atom traps. Journal of Applied Physics, 110(12), Article 123918. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3671631

We have used the results of micromagnetic simulations to investigate the effects of nanowire geometry and domain wall magnetization structure on the characteristic parameters of magnetic atom traps formed by domain walls in planar ferromagnetic nanow... Read More about Nanomagnetic engineering of the properties of domain wall atom traps.

Impact of wavefront distortion and scattering on 2-photon microscopy in mammalian brain tissue. (2011)
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Chaigneau, E., Wright, A. J., Poland, S. P., Girkin, J. M., & Silver, R. A. (2011). Impact of wavefront distortion and scattering on 2-photon microscopy in mammalian brain tissue. Optics Express, 19(23), 22755-22774. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.19.022755

Two-photon (2P) microscopy is widely used in neuroscience, but the optical properties of brain tissue are poorly understood. We have investigated the effect of brain tissue on the 2P point spread function (PSF2P) by imaging fluorescent beads through... Read More about Impact of wavefront distortion and scattering on 2-photon microscopy in mammalian brain tissue..

Thick Disks of Edge-on Galaxies Seen through the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S$^4$G): Lair of Missing Baryons? (2011)
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Comerón, S., Elmegreen, B. G., Knapen, J. H., Salo, H., Laurikainen, E., Laine, J., Athanassoula, E., Bosma, A., Sheth, K., Regan, M. W., Hinz, J. L., Gil de Paz, A., Menéndez-Delmestre, K., Mizusawa, T., Muñoz-Mateos, J.-C., Seibert, M., Kim, T., Elmegreen, D. M., Gadotti, D. A., Ho, L. C., …Skibba, R. (2011). Thick Disks of Edge-on Galaxies Seen through the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S$^4$G): Lair of Missing Baryons?. Astrophysical Journal, 741(1), https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/741/1/28

Real-time optical gating for three-dimensional beating heart imaging (2011)
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Taylor, J., Saunter, C., Love, G., Girkin, J., Henderson, D., & Chaudhry, B. (2011). Real-time optical gating for three-dimensional beating heart imaging. Journal of Biomedical Optics, 16(11), https://doi.org/10.1117/1.3652892

We demonstrate real-time microscope image gating to an arbitrary position in the cycle of the beating heart of a zebrafish embryo. We show how this can be used for high-precision prospective gating of fluorescence image slices of the moving heart. We... Read More about Real-time optical gating for three-dimensional beating heart imaging.

Very light right-handed sneutrino dark matter in the NMSSM (2011)
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Cerdeño, D., Huh, J., Peiró, M., & Seto, O. (2011). Very light right-handed sneutrino dark matter in the NMSSM. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2011(11), Article 027. https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2011/11/027

Very light right-handed (RH) sneutrinos in the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model can be viable candidates for cold dark matter. We investigate the prospects for their direct detection, addressing their compatibility with the recent signal... Read More about Very light right-handed sneutrino dark matter in the NMSSM.

Holographic power-law traps for the efficient production of Bose-Einstein condensates (2011)
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Bruce, G. D., Bromley, S. L., Smirne, G., Torralbo-Campo, L., & Cassettari, D. (2011). Holographic power-law traps for the efficient production of Bose-Einstein condensates. Physical Review A, 84(5), Article 053410. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.84.053410

We use a phase-only spatial light modulator to generate light distributions in which the intensity decays as a power law from a central maximum with order ranging from 2 (parabolic) to 0.5. We suggest that a sequence of these can be used as a time-de... Read More about Holographic power-law traps for the efficient production of Bose-Einstein condensates.

Wavelength-dependent frustrated internal reflection via photonic interface states (2011)
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Cross, G., & Brand, S. (2011). Wavelength-dependent frustrated internal reflection via photonic interface states. Applied Physics Letters, 99(19), Article 191106. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3660266

Conventional frustrated internal reflection in which light is able to tunnel across a small air gap between two prisms is a well known phenomenon. In this work, an experimental proof-of-concept demonstration of a polarization and highly wavelength se... Read More about Wavelength-dependent frustrated internal reflection via photonic interface states.

A high phase-space density mixture of (87)Rb and (133)Cs: towards ultracold heteronuclear molecules (2011)
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Cho, H., McCarron, D., Jenkin, D., Koeppinger, M., & Cornish, S. (2011). A high phase-space density mixture of (87)Rb and (133)Cs: towards ultracold heteronuclear molecules. The European Physical Journal D, 65(1-2), 125-131. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2011-10716-1

We report the production of a high phase-space density mixture of 87Rb and 133Cs atoms in a levitated crossed optical dipole trap as the first step towards the creation of ultracold RbCs molecules via magneto-association. We present a simple and robu... Read More about A high phase-space density mixture of (87)Rb and (133)Cs: towards ultracold heteronuclear molecules.

Bose-Einstein condensation of 87Rb in a levitated crossed dipole trap (2011)
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Jenkin, D., McCarron, D., Koppinger, M., Cho, H., Hopkins, S., & Cornish, S. (2011). Bose-Einstein condensation of 87Rb in a levitated crossed dipole trap. The European Physical Journal D, 65(1-2), 11-18. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2011-10720-5

We report an apparatus and method capable of producing Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) of ∼1 × 10687Rb atoms, and ultimately designed for sympathetic cooling of 133Cs and the creation of ultracold RbCs molecules. The method combines several elements... Read More about Bose-Einstein condensation of 87Rb in a levitated crossed dipole trap.

Astrophysical limits on light NMSSM neutralinos (2011)
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Albornoz Vásquez, D., Bélanger, G., & Boehm, C. (2011). Astrophysical limits on light NMSSM neutralinos. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 84(9), Article 095008. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.84.095008

It was recently shown that light LSP neutralinos could be found in the framework of the Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (NMSSM). These candidates would escape known particle physics constraints even though they are relatively light. We... Read More about Astrophysical limits on light NMSSM neutralinos.