On March 1, 2019, Dr. Li-Lin Du’s laboratory published a paper titled “Systematic analysis reveals the prevalence and principles of bypassable gene essentiality” in Nature Communicatio...

On November 19, 2018, Dr. Li-Lin Du's laboratory published in eLife a paper titled "Lipidation-independent vacuolar functions of Atg8 rely on its noncanonical interaction with a vacuole...

On November 19th, 2018, Dr. Minmin Luo’s laboratory published a paper entitled “Cell type- and Projection-specific Brain-wide Reconstruction of Single Neurons” in Nature Methods. In ...

Myelin is a fatty material formed by oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS) and by Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) that protects and insulates axons to ...

Recently developed revolutionary CRISPR/Cas9 technique is becoming one of the hottest tools in biological studies for almost all model organisms. The central advantage of CRISPR/Cas9 s...

Aug 15, 2018 - Studies from Dr. Feng Shao’s laboratory reveal that ADP-heptose, a precursor sugar molecule in bacterial LPS biosynthesis is recognized by a novel immune receptor kinase...

Aug 13, 2018 ---- Dr. Xin-Jian He's lab published an article titled “The PEAT protein complexes are required for histone deacetylation and heterochromatin silencing” online in EMBO Jour...

July 30, 2018 - Studies from Dr. Feng Shao’s laboratory reveal that bacterial virulence effector IcsB from Shigella flexneri employs a novel lysine fatty acyltransferase activity to m...