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The Cheng lab graduated the first PhD student Dr. Menghan Du! Dr. Du has an impressive publication record and has landed a wonderful job before even defending her thesis!

Dr. Du, go change the world!!!

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June 24th, 2024

mRNA-LNP-delivered synthetic transcription activator cancer therapy published / Epstein-Barr病毒阳性上皮癌的基因转录激活剂的纳米溶癌疗法

While gene editing is currently the major approach used in CRISPR-based therapeutics, epigenetic editing – changing histone modifications, DNA methylation, […]

July 3rd, 2023

Multifunctional RNA engineering platform CREST published at NAR!

Our work led by Graduate Student Zukai Liu now online at Nucleic Acids Research! The CREST platform is a molecular […]

July 21st, 2022

JACKIE gRNA design software and database published at The CRISPR journal

JACKIE software/database for gRNA designs is now published at The CRISPR Journal: https://doi.org/10.1089/crispr.2022.0042 For more information source code, database and […]

April 6th, 2022

New paper online today – A breakthrough in live-cell genome imaging: Casilio one gRNA imaging of nonrepetitive genomic locus

The paper⇒ Clow et al CRISPR-mediated multiplexed live cell imaging of nonrepetitive genomic loci with one guide RNA per locus https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29343-z Live-cell […]

December 31st, 2021

Hot off the press: TALE.Sense published at ACS Synthetic Biology

Congrats to Aziz for his new publication at ACS synthetic biology! We created TALE-based in vivo DNA sensor components for […]

December 3rd, 2021

Published on Cancer Discovery, Casilio-based imaging method “ecTag” tracks ecDNA in live cancer cells.

In a collaboration with Roel Verhaak laboratory, we applied Casilio’s imaging modules to label unique breakpoint sequence on ecDNAs, allowing […]

October 5th, 2021

Albert will be Associate Professor at School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University in 2022

The Cheng lab will move to School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering (SBHSE) at Arizona State University (ASU) in Jan […]

March 29th, 2021

Newly minted Dr. Menghan Du, PhD!

The Cheng lab graduated the first PhD student Dr. Menghan Du! Dr. Du has an impressive publication record and has […]

September 16th, 2020

New paper on collaboration with Lau lab on 3D epigenome of C11or95-RELA+ ependymoma published in Acta Neuropathologica!

Check out our paper using different NGS technologies to profile 3D genome interactome, epigenome, transcriptome, and genome-wide binding by C11orf95-RELA […]

June 12th, 2020

New publication from the lab on CRISPR artificial splicing factors

Du, M.*, Jillette, N.*, Zhu, J.J., Li, S., Cheng, A.W. (2020) CRISPR Artificial Splicing Factors. Nature Communications 11:2973. doi: 1038/s41467-020-16806-4 Info page