Zhaonan Zou

The heterochronic activation of TGF-β signaling drives the diversity of the avian sterna

The paper investigates how differences in TGF-β signaling timing between carinate and ratite embryos lead to distinct sternal morphology.

Identification of stem cell marker-positive subpopulations in the vocal fold of the larynx through transcriptomic analyses

The paper identifies stem cell marker-positive subpopulations in the mouse larynx using scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics, revealing new insights into laryngeal tissue composition and stem cell biology.

Uncertainty-aware transcription factor activity and perturbation inference without additional training

TFActProfiler improves TF activity inference and perturbation prediction using pre-trained TF-mRNA interactions and RNA-seq data without additional training.

Extraction of biological terms using large language models enhances the usability of metadata in the BioSample database

This paper evaluates using large language models to extract biological terms from BioSample metadata, improving data findability and reusability.

Trans-ancestry genome-wide analysis of atrial fibrillation provides new insights into disease biology and enables polygenic prediction of cardioembolic risk

This paper identifies new genetic loci for atrial fibrillation through a trans-ancestry meta-analysis and develops a polygenic risk score linked to cardioembolic risk.