htchaolab.bsky.social
Neuroscientist+Child Neurologist. McNair Scholar #RareDisease, #neurogenetics, inhibition/circuits, #autism, #epilepsy, & brain disorders. RT≠endorse.
👤 Joined on 15 January 2024
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@htchaolab.bsky.socialTurns out, two of pain’s most famous messengers — Substance P and CGRPα — might not be so essential after all. Mice missing both still felt pain just fine, challenging decades of assumptions about how pain signals travel. buff.ly/ypISrtx
Show PostSPR Member, Hsiao-Tuan Chao, MD, PhD, @htchaolab.bsky.social, & researchers @bcmfromthelabs.bsky.social provided a long-awaited and rare genetic diagnosis in a child with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a type of developmental epileptic encephalopathy (DEE). Read More: ow.ly/g2UM50VB6qk
Show PostOur lab characterises the autosomal recessive TRMT1-related neurodevelopmental disorder through a large cohort, patient-derived cells, and zebrafish model—linking defective tRNA methylation to intellectual disability and expanding the emerging group of "tRNAopathies". www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...
Show PostPublished an op-ed for @cnn.com: “Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger.” A personal reflection on what’s at stake as science funding gets slashed. I’d be grateful if you could amplify both in and beyond the science world. www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...
Show Post11 of about 55 PIs terminated at NINDS yesterday, with downstream effects for all of us in terms of the lost research into neurological disease and stroke. 1/ www.wired.com/story/doctor...
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