Xiaowei Hou
@hou-xiaowei.bsky.social
A structural biologist who loves things that move
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Now online! The structure of human sweetness
The structure of human sweetness
A single taste receptor initiates our reactions to both sugars and artificial sweeteners, triggering a signaling process that drives our intense attraction to sweet foods. Single-particle cryo-EM reveals the structure of the human sweet taste receptor, a heteromer composed of TAS1R2 + TAS1R3 GPCRs.
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May 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Now online! The structure of human sweetness
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February 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Medical advances in the past few decades have redefined migraine as a treatable and manageable condition. Research is also leading to a better understanding about the condition and pointing to directions for future work. Read the Nature feature. 🧪
Migraine is more than a headache — a radical rethink offers hope to one billion people
Drugs that can prevent or relieve migraine attacks are only effective for some people. Research is starting to untangle the reasons why.
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February 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Medical advances in the past few decades have redefined migraine as a treatable and manageable condition. Research is also leading to a better understanding about the condition and pointing to directions for future work. Read the Nature feature. 🧪
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Bayesian Inference of Binding Kinetics from Fluorescence Time Series https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.03.636267v1
February 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Bayesian Inference of Binding Kinetics from Fluorescence Time Series https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.03.636267v1
Great opportunity at Genentech -- www.linkedin.com/posts/xiao-t...
Xiao Tao on LinkedIn: We are seeking a highly motivated/independent individual to join my group…
We are seeking a highly motivated/independent individual to join my group as a postdoc fellow as part of the membrane protein group in the Department of…
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February 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Great opportunity at Genentech -- www.linkedin.com/posts/xiao-t...
Wrapping up the year with a warm and cozy dinner alongside our amazing lab members. Wishing everyone happy holidays!
December 20, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Wrapping up the year with a warm and cozy dinner alongside our amazing lab members. Wishing everyone happy holidays!
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December 7, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Crazy how ChatGPT changes our ways of doing things. It helped us write a few scripts, and now we are automating our hours of data analysis to a few seconds!
December 7, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Crazy how ChatGPT changes our ways of doing things. It helped us write a few scripts, and now we are automating our hours of data analysis to a few seconds!
😓😓😰 Stirring Bar Contamination | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...
Stirring Bar Contamination
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December 4, 2024 at 4:47 AM
😓😓😰 Stirring Bar Contamination | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...
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The pentameric chloride channel BEST1 is activated by extracellular GABA https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.22.624909v1
The pentameric chloride channel BEST1 is activated by extracellular GABA https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.22.624909v1
Bestrophin 1 (BEST1) is chloride channel expressed in the eye, central nervous system (CNS), and oth
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November 23, 2024 at 3:46 AM
The pentameric chloride channel BEST1 is activated by extracellular GABA https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.22.624909v1