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Kevin He

Pennsylvania State UniversityPrimary ORCID profile (0000-0003-2642-7830 · 1 paper)Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Kevin HeiD1 paper · Washington University in St. Louis

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:Drosophila· 1 Organism:mouse· 1

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The RNA exosome maintains cellular RNA homeostasis by controlling transcript abundance in the brain

Lauryn A. Higginson, Xingjun Wang, Kevin He, Maggie Torstrick, Minhoo Kim, H. R. Sagara Wijeratne, Avery M. Runnebohm, Bérénice Anath Benayoun, Adam L. MacLean, Guillaume Chanfreau, Derrick J. Morton

This study uses a Drosophila model to show that RNA exosome mutations disrupt brain transcriptomes and cause neurodegeneration by altering rRNA processing.

Cell Reports · Dec 17, 2025Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology

Regeneration of dorsal spinal cord neurons after injury via in situ NeuroD1-mediated astrocyte-to-neuron conversion

Brendan Puls, Yan Ping Ding, Fengyu Zhang, Mengjie Pan, Zhuofan Lei, Zifei Pei, Mei Hua Jiang, Yuting Bai, Cody Forsyth, Morgan Metzger, Tanvi Rana, Lei Zhang, Xiaoyun Ding, Matthew G. Keefe, Alice Cai, , Gong Chen

This study demonstrates efficient regeneration of dorsal spinal cord neurons from reactive astrocytes after injury using NeuroD1-mediated in vivo reprogramming via AAV.

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology · Dec 16, 2020Peer-reviewedNeuroscience