*October 2011

"N6-Methyladenosine in nuclear RNA is a major substrate of the obesity-associated FTO" has received some press since going online:

C&E News

UchicagoNews

Science Editor's Choice

*October 2011

"Selective fluorescent probes for live-cell monitoring of sulphide" highlighted in C&E News.

*December 2010
"Selective chemical labeling reveals the genome-wide distribution of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine" has received some press since going online:

Nature Chemical Biology
Epigenie
ACS

Commercial Kit

*November 2010
"Iron-catalysed oxidation intermediates captured in a DNA repair dioxygenase" has received numerous press reports since being published:

C&EN
UChicago News
Argonne National Lab
Futurity
redOrbit
ScienceDaily
Scientific Computing

*November 2010
"The AlkB Domain of Mammalian ABH8 Catalyzes Hydroxylation of 5-Methoxycarbonylmethyluridine at the Wobble Position of tRNA" gets the cover for Angewandte Chemie.

*April 2009
"Platinum(II)-Catalyzed Intramolecular Cyclization of o-Substituted Arylalkynes through sp³ C-H Activation" was labeled as a Hot Paper by Angewandte.

*February 2009
"Engineering a Uranyl-Specific Binding Protein from NikR", written in collaboration with Mark P. Jensen at Argonne National Laboratory, has received some press since being published:
    Angewandte Press Release - A Pocketful of Uranium
    Science Magazine Editor's Choice
    German Public Radio Science News Transcript (in German)
    Physorg.com
    Eurekalert (also in German)
    Bio-medicine.org
    Internetchemie
    Newsguide.us
    Generef.com
    Labspaces.net
    Innovations Report
    ScienceCentric News
    Rootninja.com
    Electronica2000.org
    Newstin.com
    ScienceDaily
    Biocompare News
    ScientistLive
    EScienceNews

*August 2008

"A small molecule enhances RNA interference and promotes microRNA processing", a paper written in collaboration with the Jin lab at Emory University, is highlighted in C&E News.

*April/May 2008

"Crystal structures of DNA-RNA repair enzymes AlkB and ABH2 bound to dsDNA"  has received numerous press write-ups in recent weeks:

     University of Chicago News Brief

     C&E News Coverage

     Eurekalert (AAAS)

     Spectroscopy NOW

     Argonne Structure Biology Center Research Highlight

     Biology News Net

     Bioresearch Online

     Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News

     Huliq Independent News Agency

     LightSources Online

     Media Newswire

     Medical News Today

     News-Medical

     Newswise

     Physorg Online

     Science Centric

     Science Daily

     Internet Chemistry

     Firstscience

*March 2008

Work from the paper "A proteome chip approach reveals new DNA damage recognition activities in Escherichia Coli" is highlighted in the March issue of the Journal of Proteome Research.

*January 2008

Thanks to research done in this lab, MgrA has been registered in the Infectious Disease Biomarker Database as a potential biomarker for Staphylococcus Aureus vancomycin resistance.

*June 2007

Zigang, Dave, and Ron's work highlighted in C&E News.

* November 2006

"An Oxidation Sensing Mechanism is Used by A Global Regulator of Staphylococcus aureus" Nature Chem. Biol. 2006, 2, 591-595. C & E News, ChemTech News
 

* April 2005

"An Exceptionally Selective Fluorescent Lead(II) Probe based on a Lead(II)-Regulatory Protein from Ralstonia Metallidurans was developed by He group and their coworkers" is to be found in C&E News and several other Scientific Journals or online resources.

  C & E News, News1 News2 News3 News4  News5 News6

* January 2004

“Constructing Highly Sensitive and Selective Fluorescent Biosensors for Metal Ions by Using the MerR Family Proteins”. Read all about it in C & E News  and Analytical Chemistry