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On the genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes

Bo Xia#, Weimin Zhang, Guisheng Zhao, Xinru Zhang, Jiangshan Bai, Ran Brosh, Aleksandra Wudzinska, Emily Huang, Hannah Ashe, Gwen Ellis, Maayan Pour, Yu Zhao, Camila Coelho, Yinan Zhu, Alexander Miller, Jeremy S Dasen, Matthew T Maurano, Sang Y Kim, Jef D Boeke#, Itai Yanai#. (# co-corresponding author)

Nature (2024), 626, 1042–1048. (Cover). URL

Nature News & Views: A mobile DNA sequence could explain tail loss in humans and ape

Media coverage: New York Times, CNN, Reuters, Scientific American, Nature, Science, Science News, The Scientist, Smithsonian Magazine, BBC News, Associated Press(AP), etc.

Credit: Aman Raghuwanshi Edit: Bailey Tischer, Bo Xia

Cell type-specific prediction of 3D chromatin organization enables high-throughput in silico genetic screening

Jimin Tan, Nina Shenker-Tauris, Javier Rodriguez-Hernaez, Eric Wang, Theodore Sakellaropoulos, Francesco Boccalatte, Palaniraja Thandapani, Jane Skok, Iannis Aifantis, David Fenyö, Bo Xia#, Aristotelis Tsirigos#. (# co-corresponding author)

Nature Biotechnology (2023), 41(8), 1140-1150. URL


Cellular dynamics in pig-to-human kidney xenotransplantation

Wanqing Pan*, Weimin Zhang*, Binghan Zheng*, Brendan R Camellato, Jeffrey Stern, Ziyan Lin, Alireza Khodadadi-Jamayran, Jacqueline Kim, Philip Sommer, Karen Khalil, Elaina Weldon, Jiangshan Bai, Yinan Zhu, Peter Meyn; Adriana Heguy, Massimo Mangiola, Adam Griesemer, Brendan J Keating#, Robert A Montgomery#, Bo Xia#,  Jef D Boeke#. (# co-corresponding author)

Med  (2024), 5 (8), 1016-1029. (Cover) URL

Med Viewpoint: Opportunities and challenges for immunosuppression in the context of pig-to-human xenotransplantation

Media coverage: EurekAlert, NYU Langone

Widespread transcriptional scanning in the testis modulates gene evolution rates.

Bo Xia, Yun Yan, Maayan Baron, Florian Wagner, Dalia Barkley, Marta Chiodin, Sang Y Kim, David L Keefe, Joseph P Alukal, Jef D Boeke, and Itai Yanai. 

Cell (2020), 180 (2), 248-262. (Cover) URL

Cell Preview: Sperm Go to (Transcription) Extremes

Media coverage: EurekaAlert, ScienceDaily, Phys.org

Credit: Molly Ferguson 

Bisulfite-free, base-resolution analysis of 5-formylcytosine at the genome scale

Bo Xia*, Dali Han*, Xingyu Lu*, Zhaozhu Sun, Ankun Zhou, Qiangzong Yin, Hu Zeng, Menghao Liu, Xiang Jiang, Wei Xie, Chuan He#, Chengqi Yi#

Nature Methods (2015), 12(11), 1047–1050. URL

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Nature News & Views: A mobile DNA sequence could explain tail loss in humans and ape

Media coverage: New York Times, CNN, Reuters, Scientific American, Nature, Science, Science News, The Scientist, Smithsonian Magazine, BBC News, Associated Press(AP), etc.


Med Viewpoint: Opportunities and challenges for immunosuppression in the context of pig-to-human xenotransplantation

Media coverage: EurekAlert, NYU Langone




Cell Preview: Sperm Go to (Transcription) Extremes

Media coverage: EurekaAlert!, ScienceDaily, Phys.org




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