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• Preseismic velocity changes observed from active source monitoring at the Parkfield SAFOD drill site.

  Measuring stress changes within seismically active fault zones has been a long-sought goal of seismology. One approach is to exploit the stress depend…

  Authors: Fenglin Niu, Paul G Silver, Thomas M Daley, Xin Cheng, Ernest L Majer

  Source: Nature. 2008 Jul 10

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• A sensitive and high-throughput assay to detect low-abundance proteins in serum.

  The ability to detect antigens immunologically is limited by the affinity of the antibodies and the amount of antigens. We have now succeeded in creat…

  Authors: Hongtao Zhang, Xin Cheng, Mark Richter, Mark I Greene

  Source: Nature medicine. 2006 Apr

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• Notch signaling respecifies the hemangioblast to a cardiac fate.

  To efficiently generate cardiomyocytes from embryonic stem (ES) cells in culture it is essential to identify key regulators of the cardiac lineage and…

  Authors: Vincent C Chen, Robert Stull, Daniel Joo, Xin Cheng, Gordon Keller

  Source: Nature biotechnology. 2008 Oct

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• A functional folate receptor is induced during macrophage activation and can be used to target drugs to activated macrophages.

  Previous work has demonstrated that a subset of macrophages expresses a folate receptor (FR) that can mediate internalization of folate-linked molecul…

  Authors: Wei Xia, Andrew R Hilgenbrink, Eric L Matteson, Michael B Lockwood, Ji-Xin Cheng, Philip S Low

  Source: Blood. 2009 Jan 8

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• The synthetic genetic interaction spectrum of essential genes.

  The nature of synthetic genetic interactions involving essential genes (those required for viability) has not been previously examined in a broad and …

  Authors: Armaity P Davierwala, Jennifer Haynes, Zhijian Li, Renée L Brost, Mark D Robinson, Lisa Yu, Sanie Mnaimneh, Huiming Ding, Hongwei Zhu, Yiqun Chen,…

  Source: Nature genetics. 2005 Oct

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• In vitro and in vivo nonlinear optical imaging of silicon nanowires.

  Understanding of cellular interactions with a nanostructure requires tracking directly the nanostructure. Current investigation is challenged by the l…

  Authors: Yookyung Jung, Ling Tong, Asama Tanaudommongkon, Ji-Xin Cheng, Chen Yang

  Source: Nano letters. 2009 Jun

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• An engineered multidomain bactericidal peptide as a model for targeted antibiotics against specific bacteria.

  We constructed a peptide consisting of a staphylococcal AgrD1 pheromone fused to the channel-forming domain of colicin Ia and named it pheromonicin. T…

  Authors: Xiao-Qing Qiu, He Wang, Xiao-Fong Lu, Jie Zhang, Sheng-Fu Li, Gang Cheng, Lin Wan, Li Yang, Jun-Yong Zuo, Yu-Qi Zhou,…

  Source: Nature biotechnology. 2003 Dec

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• A dynamic, cytoplasmic triacylglycerol pool in enterocytes revealed by ex vivo and in vivo coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering imaging.

  The absorptive cells of the small intestine, enterocytes, are not generally thought of as a cell type that stores triacylglycerols (TGs) in cytoplasmi…

  Authors: Jiabin Zhu, Bonggi Lee, Kimberly K Buhman, Ji-Xin Cheng

  Source: Journal of lipid research. 2009 Jun

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• One-pot tandem double-aldol reaction/aza-addition of acetylacetamides and o-phthalaldehyde leading to spiroindan-2,2'-pyrrolidines.

  A novel domino reaction based on o-phthalaldehyde and 3-oxo-N-arylbutanamide 1 has been developed which allows one-pot and efficient synthesis of stru…

  Authors: Xin Cheng, Fushun Liang, Fan Shi, Lei Zhang, Qun Liu

  Source: Organic letters. 2009 Jan 1

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• Cholesterol level regulates endosome motility via Rab proteins.

  The role of cholesterol in the regulation of endosome motility was investigated by monitoring the intracellular trafficking of endocytosed folate rece…

  Authors: Hongtao Chen, Jun Yang, Philip S Low, Ji-Xin Cheng

  Source: Biophysical journal. 2008 Feb 15

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