# Links

**Source**: https://woltjen.cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp/links/
**Parent**: https://woltjen.cira.kyoto-u.ac.jp

[Recommended Videos](#video)\
[Recommended Reading](#Reading)\
[Scientific Resources](#Resources)\
[Labs, Research Centres, and Societies](#Labs)\
[Public Resources](#Public)\
[Life and Research In Japan](#Life)\
[Fun Links (hey, stop wasting time!)](#Fun)

### Recommended Videos

TIDE

inDelphi

CRISPOR

Introduction of Kyoto University

CiRA Introduction movie

Introduction to the Woltjen Lab

### **Recommended Reading**

PB-iPS established in mouse and human [PubMed](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19252478)\
Takahashi and Yamanaka report iPS cell process [PubMed](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16904174)\
日本国内で「プチ」留学する / Petit Studying Abroad in the Woltjen Lab [Yodosha](https://www.yodosha.co.jp/jikkenigaku/opinion/vol40n14.html)\
ゲノム編集学会 [メルマガ18号](http://jsgedit.jp/mail_magazine18)

### **Scientific Resources**

#### **Reference Material**

[Cell Snapshots](http://snapshots.cell.com/) – Concepts in Life Science Visualized

#### **Online Databases, Genome Browsers**

[Ensembl](http://www.ensembl.org/index.html) – Genome Browsing\
[UCSC](http://genome.ucsc.edu/) – Genome Browsing\
[MGI](http://www.informatics.jax.org/) – Transgenic Mouse Resource\
[FPbase](https://www.fpbase.org) – Fluorescent protein database

#### **Recombinant DNA Tools**

[AddGene](http://www.addgene.org/) – Plasmid repository\
[TALENT](https://boglab.plp.iastate.edu/) – TALEN Design tool\

### **Labs, Research Centres and Societies**

#### Canada

[Nagy Lab](http://www.mshri.on.ca/nagy/) – Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada\
[Sick Kids Research](http://www.sickkids.ca/Research/index.html) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada\
[Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine](http://ccrm.ca/) – Toronto, Ontario, Canada\
[Canadian Stem Cell Network](http://www.stemcellnetwork.ca/)

#### Japan

[RIKEN CDB](http://www.cdb.riken.jp/en/) – Premier developmental biology research

#### Societies

[ISSCR](http://www.isscr.org/) – International Society for Stem Cell Research\

### **Stem Cell Resources for the Public**

Considering Stem Cell Therapy? [Get informed](http://www.CloserLookAtStemCells.org) by REAL stem cell scientists and clinicians!\

### **Life and Research in Japan**

[GaijinPot](http://www.gaijinpot.com/) – Live. Work. Play. In Japan.\

### **Fun Links (hey, stop wasting time!)**

#### Games you can justify

[Phylo](http://phylo.cs.mcgill.ca/) – Sequence alignments across species – From McGill University

#### Pop-Science

[Inhabitat](http://inhabitat.com/) – Green Design\
[Slashdot](http://slashdot.org/) – News for Nerds, Stuff That Matters

#### Science WebComics

[Dr. McNinja](http://drmcninja.com/newreaders.php) – A pretty smart doctor and a damn good ninja\
[Ph.D.](http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php) – Piled Higher and Deeper – a webcomic for grad students and professors. You’re not the only one who feels that way!

#### Just Silly

[Engrish](http://www.engrish.com/) – Everything is lost in translation (sometimes NSFW, read at your own discretion)