Renhao Luo
renhaol.bsky.social
Renhao Luo
@renhaol.bsky.social
PhD student @scripps.edu (He/Him)
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Wow, glad to get spotlight from Dr. Topol! Check out the latest publication from my previous lab!
TL;DR: Do exercise for your big brain!
Reposted by Renhao Luo
And here is the story after peer review. This work highlights our current approach, which is to use Piezo channels to uncover new areas of biology that are shaped by mechanical forces: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Great lab outing today! What a great group of trainees.
October 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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New preprint alert! The uterus expands ~500-fold in pregnancy, yet we know little about how pressures are sensed. Led by @yunxiao-dr.bsky.social, we show PIEZOs are required for contractions and birth in mice, with dual roles of PIEZO1 in muscle and PIEZO2 in neurons
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
PIEZO channels link mechanical forces to uterine contractions in parturition
Mechanical forces are extensively involved in pregnancy and parturition, but their precise roles and mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here, we identify mechanically activated ion channels PIEZO1 a...
www.biorxiv.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Reposted by Renhao Luo
Protective exercise responses in the dentate gyrus of Alzheimer’s disease mouse model revealed with single-nucleus RNA-sequencing

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Protective exercise responses in the dentate gyrus of Alzheimer’s disease mouse model revealed with single-nucleus RNA-sequencing - Nature Neuroscience
Dissecting the adaptive exercise response of the neurogenic stem-cell niche in the dentate gyrus by single-nucleus RNA sequencing reveals the molecular mediators that underlie exercise’s protective ef...
www.nature.com
June 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Wow, glad to get spotlight from Dr. Topol! Check out the latest publication from my previous lab!
TL;DR: Do exercise for your big brain!
June 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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The Patapoutian lab started 25 years ago on March 1, 2000. A quarter-century of science with brilliant trainees, colleagues & collaborators. Cheers to my mentors & mentees! Excited to celebrate with past & present lab members in November. Here’s to more great science 🧪 and better times ahead!
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March 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Join our lab! We're hiring a research technician—a great opportunity for individuals with a Bachelor's degree who want to gain valuable research experience before heading to medical or graduate school.
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December 16, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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Celebrating the holidays and saying goodbye to Anna Koster. It’s a good sign when you genuinely enjoy spending time with your labbies.
December 5, 2024 at 2:38 AM