L. Zhou

This study demonstrates that 3′-phosphate terminated RNA strands can participate in template-directed copying reactions to form stable pyrophosphate linkages, offering a non-enzymatic pathway for RNA strand recovery.

This study identifies E-cadherin as a facilitator of HBV entry by interacting with glycosylated NTCP and regulating hepatocyte polarity.

This study uses oblique scanning laser ophthalmoscopy to perform high-speed volumetric fluorescein angiography in mouse retinas, enabling 3D visualization and quantification of capillary hemodynamics.

The paper uses shotgun metagenomics to analyze the gut microbiome in AS patients, finding enriched bacterial epitopes linked to HLA-B27 and effects of TNFi therapy and host genotype on microbiome composition.

The paper examines geographic patterns of bacterioplankton in interconnected lakes of the Yangtze River Basin, finding that distance-decay relationships and stochastic processes dominate bacterial community assembly.

The paper identifies a putative nuclear localization signal in maspin and shows it drives nuclear import of a GFP construct in an energy-dependent manner.

This paper develops an optogenetic method to control mitochondrial membrane potential and shows its effects on cell fate, finding that light-induced depolarization can induce apoptosis or cytoprotection depending on duration and intensity.

This study shows high-glucose induces RPE apoptosis and inhibits mitophagy by disrupting the ROS/PINK1/Parkin pathway.

This paper introduces miRacles, a DNA nanoswitch-based assay for detecting microRNAs with high sensitivity and specificity, offering a rapid, cost-effective alternative to traditional methods.

This study differentiates dermal mesenchymal stem cells into vascular endothelial cells using endothelial cell line conditioned medium, showing high CD31 expression and angiogenic ability.

This study identifies miR-20a/LRIG1/EGFR axis as a regulator of gastric cancer multidrug resistance and suggests it as a therapeutic target.

This study examines how maize plants respond to drought and rewatering, finding that leaf functional traits do not fully recover after drought and recovery strength depends on drought duration.

The paper sequences the genome of a diabetes-prone desert rodent and identifies a mutation hotspot around the ParaHox gene cluster, including the Pdx1 gene, showing extreme divergence due to GC-biased mutation.