This study uses diffusion MRI to show that speech acquisition in infants involves coordinated white-matter maturation across multiple systems, not just language pathways.

Communications Biology · Jul 20, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Integrated single-cell and spatial multiomic analysis reveals widespread reactivation of developmental programs in diseased human hearts

William Gao, Peng Hu, Brittney D Wick, Qi Qiu, Hongjie Zhang, Ying Li, Xiangjin Kang, Kenneth C Bedi, Maximilian Haeussler, Kotaro Sasaki, Kenneth B. Margulies, Hao Wu

The paper integrates single-cell and spatial multiomic data to show widespread reactivation of developmental programs in diseased human hearts, with insights into transcriptional factors and localized fetal reactivation.

Genome biology · Apr 6, 2026Peer-reviewedGenomics

Impact of Peripheral Auditory Structure on the Development of Auditory-Language Network in Children with Profound Sensorineural Hearing Loss

Yaoxuan Wang, Mengda Jiang, Yuting Zhu, Lu Xue, Wenying Shu, Xiang Li, Hongsai Chen, Yun Li, Ying Chen, Yongchuan Chai, Yu Zhang, Ying‐Hua Chu, Yang Song, Xiaofeng Tao, Zhaoyan Wang, Hao Wu

This study maps the auditory-language network in children with profound SNHL using MRI, showing the language pathway's sensitivity to peripheral auditory conditions and proposing a pre-surgical evaluation framework.

eLife · Aug 10, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Genome assembly of the JD17 soybean provides a new reference genome for Comparative genomics

Xinxin Yi, Jing Liu, Shengcai Chen, Hao Wu, Min Liu, Qing Xu, Lingshan Lei, Seunghee Lee, Bao Zhang, Dave Kudrna, Wei Fan, Rod A. Wing, Xuelu Wang, Mengchen Zhang, Jianwei Zhang, , Nansheng Chen

The paper presents a high-quality genome assembly of the soybean cultivar JD17 and identifies genetic variations compared to other soybean genomes.

G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · Feb 21, 2022Peer-reviewedGenomics