D. Zhang

This study examines age-related seroprevalence of four seasonal coronaviruses in children and postpartum women, showing waning passive immunity and resurgence of IgGs with age.

This study identifies BdPOX, a peroxidase, as a regulator of hair cell and stomatal size in Brachypodium distachyon, showing its role in cell wall modification and epidermal function.

The paper identifies incomplete lineage sorting in Sulfitobacter, a marine bacterium, showing rapid speciation driven by ancestral polymorphism retention rather than adaptive selection.

The paper identifies conserved plasmodesmal proteins through comparative proteomics across Arabidopsis and moss, revealing core components like β-1,3-glucanases and tetraspanins.

This study shows DNA viruses like TYLCV undergo intracellular population bottlenecks, limiting replication to no more than three genome copies per cell, ensuring lethal mutations are purged.

This study shows that pathogens like Brucella and coronavirus MHV exploit the RIDD pathway to degrade BLOS1, impairing lysosomal trafficking and enhancing their intracellular survival.

This study identifies FtMYB102 and FtbHLH4 as a transcriptional complex that promotes rutin accumulation in Tartary buckwheat by inducing CHI expression.

This study identifies DNALI1 as a key protein in sperm development, showing its role in the MEIG1/PACRG complex for cargo transport along the manchette and its involvement in sperm individualization.

The paper identifies two opposing polarity domains in subsidiary mother cells that regulate asymmetric division in grass stomata.

This paper models the fluke-and-glide gait of bottlenose dolphins and finds it reduces metabolic and mechanical costs of transport compared to continuous fluking.

The paper uses organoid models to show that WNT2B promotes vascularization in pregnancies, linking trophoblast function to vascular development in both intrauterine and ectopic pregnancies.

The paper introduces the Swarm, a high-throughput optogenetic platform for screening ion channel modulators in excitable cells, demonstrating its utility in drug discovery for nervous system disorders and cardiac toxicity.

The paper identifies YAB11-NGAL1 as a regulator of leaf serration in poplar through GWAS and eQTN mapping, showing its role in environmental adaptation and morphological plasticity.

This paper develops a novel murine model of mania through environmental stressors and validates it against depression models and controls.

The paper uses cryo-EM to reveal cooperative conformational changes in KaiC hexamers that enable switch-like phosphorylation responses.

This study shows that silencing the nt5 gene in Staphylococcus aureus reduces kidney abscess formation and enhances phagocytosis by host immune cells.

LIFE-Seq is a method for analyzing transgene integration in GMOs using DNA probes and PacBio sequencing, offering improved accuracy and cost-effectiveness compared to whole-genome sequencing.

This study shows that knocking out OsSWEET15 in rice reduces fertility by impairing embryo formation and seed-setting, with similar effects observed in OsSWEET11 mutants.

This study shows that GLH/VASA helicases are essential for forming germ granules, which ensure accurate piRNA-mediated transcriptome surveillance by distinguishing self from non-self.

This paper develops bright fluorophores and uses heavy water to improve fluorescence imaging of deep-buried hollow organs, achieving better visualization and diagnosis.

This paper develops a Saccharomyces cerevisiae-based biosensor for copper ion detection with reduced noise and improved signal output, using colorimetric and olfactory outputs for on-site monitoring.

This paper introduces an automated pipeline for analyzing cetacean gait from biologging tag data, achieving high accuracy in orientation and motion detection.

The paper determines the cryo-EM structure of human SOD1 amyloid fibrils, revealing conformational changes associated with ALS pathology.

The paper investigates age-dependent H3K9 acetylation changes in rice flag leaf senescence, finding increased H3K9ac levels correlate with gene expression and identify regulatory networks.

The paper identifies distinct cell adhesion signatures in glioblastoma myeloid-derived suppressor cell subsets, showing that monocytic MDSCs drive tumor growth through enhanced integrin β1 expression.

This study shows that Malus baccata contributes to the genomes of cultivated European and Chinese apples through gene flow, alongside Malus sylvestris and Malus sieversii.

The paper reports the cryo-EM structure of an amyloid fibril formed by the E196K mutation in human PrP, revealing a distinct conformation compared to wild-type PrP fibrils.

This study shows that MMRd in mouse tumor models does not increase immunogenicity or ICB response, due to intratumoral heterogeneity.

This study identifies three conserved hydrophobic residues in the CC domain of rice NLR Pit that contribute to plasma membrane localization and immune induction, distinct from their roles in other NLRs.

This study identifies ribosomal protein L23 as a driver of hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis by upregulating MMP9 expression and promoting tumor growth and metastasis in vivo.