https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/shan-xu/news-rss/?orgId=121922&title=Latest+News A selection of the latest research, academic, and other newsworthy developments at Shan Xu Lab en-us Copyright 2026 Yale School of Medicine Thu, 14 May 2026 19:41:56 Z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08501-x https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08501-x Michael Grome, a postdoctoral associate in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at Yale and first author of the study, likened codons to three-letter words within a sentence in the genetic recipe for life. “A lot of these words are equivalent, or synonymous,” Grome said. “We set out to add more ingredients for building proteins, so we took three of these words for ‘stop’ and made them one. Two words were removed, then we re-engineered the cell so they were ‘freed’ for new function. We then engineered a cell that recognized the word to say something new, to represent a new ingredient.” Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:00:00 Z https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/shan-xu/news-article/3d-structure-touch-detection/ https://websites4-live-prod.ysmdevs.com/lab/shan-xu/news-article/3d-structure-touch-detection/ Scientists reveal the 3D architecture and mechanism of mechanosensory corpuscles, a group of cells that act as a touch detector. Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:05:00 Z https://ctcase.org/connecticut-academy-of-science-and-engineering-elects-35-new-members-in-2023/ https://ctcase.org/connecticut-academy-of-science-and-engineering-elects-35-new-members-in-2023/ East Hartford, CT —The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE) announces the election of 35 of Connecticut’s leading experts in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine to membership in the Academy. The new members will be introduced at the Academy’s 48th Annual Meeting and Dinner to be held at the Woodwinds in Branford on May 24, 2023. Fri, 24 Feb 2023 04:00:00 Z