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69
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20432
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1460
National Ranking
30

Overview

Linzhao Cheng is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of medicine and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research focuses on several subfields, including molecular biology, surgery, physiology, infectious diseases, and cancer research.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Extracellular vesicles in disease
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

Cheng has published in several scientific venues with notable frequent publications in:

  • Blood
  • Advanced Science
  • Stem Cell Research
  • Cellular and Molecular Immunology
  • Nature Methods

Their recent papers include:

  • "Serum IgA, IgM, and IgG responses in COVID-19" (2020), published in Cellular and Molecular Immunology
  • "Benchmarking spatial and single-cell transcriptomics integration methods for transcript distribution prediction and cell type deconvolution" (2022), published in Nature Methods
  • "Highly efficient magnetic labelling allows MRI tracking of the homing of stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles following systemic delivery" (2021), published in Journal of Extracellular Vesicles
  • "Transcriptional landscape of myogenesis from human pluripotent stem cells reveals a key role of TWIST1 in maintenance of skeletal muscle progenitors" (2020), published in eLife
  • "iPSCs from people with MS can differentiate into oligodendrocytes in a homeostatic but not an inflammatory milieu" (2020), published in PLoS ONE

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Cheng include:

  • Senquan Liu
  • Xinye Zhang
  • Enyu Wang
  • Ding Ma
  • Jiusheng Deng

Best Publications

  • A stem cell–like chromatin pattern may predispose tumor suppressor genes to DNA hypermethylation and heritable silencing

    Joyce E Ohm;Kelly M McGarvey;Xiaobing Yu;Linzhao Cheng

  • Long-term proliferation of mouse primordial germ cells in culture.

    James L. Resnick;Lynn S. Bixler;Linzhao Cheng;Peter J. Donovan

  • Optimized Codon Usage and Chromophore Mutations Provide Enhanced Sensitivity with the Green Fluorescent Protein

    Te Tuan Yang;Linzhao Cheng;Steven R. Kain

  • Targeted disruption of the low-affinity leukemia inhibitory factor receptor gene causes placental, skeletal, neural and metabolic defects and results in perinatal death

    C.B. Ware;M.C. Horowitz;B.R. Renshaw;J.S. Hunt

  • Gene targeting of a disease-related gene in human induced pluripotent stem and embryonic stem cells.

    Jizhong Zou;Morgan L. Maeder;Prashant Mali;Shondra M. Pruett-Miller

  • HIF-dependent antitumorigenic effect of antioxidants in vivo.

    Ping Gao;Huafeng Zhang;Ramani Dinavahi;Feng Li

  • Synaptic dysregulation in a human iPS cell model of mental disorders

    Zhexing Wen;Ha Nam Nguyen;Ziyuan Guo;Matthew A. Lalli

  • Butyrate Greatly Enhances Derivation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells by Promoting Epigenetic Remodeling and the Expression of Pluripotency-Associated Genes

    Prashant Mali;Bin Kuan Chou;Jonathan Yen;Zhaohui Ye

  • Efficient human iPS cell derivation by a non-integrating plasmid from blood cells with unique epigenetic and gene expression signatures

    Bin Kuan Chou;Prashant Mali;Xiaosong Huang;Zhaohui Ye

  • Human embryonic germ cell derivatives express a broad range of developmentally distinct markers and proliferate extensively in vitro

    Michael J. Shamblott;Joyce Axelman;John W. Littlefield;Paul D. Blumenthal

  • Human Adult Marrow Cells Support Prolonged Expansion of Human Embryonic Stem Cells in Culture

    Linzhao Cheng;Holly Hammond;Zhaohui Ye;Xiangcan Zhan

  • Human-induced pluripotent stem cells from blood cells of healthy donors and patients with acquired blood disorders

    Zhaohui Ye;Huichun Zhan;Prashant Mali;Prashant Mali;Sarah Dowey

  • Defining the Role of Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling in the Survival, Proliferation, and Self-Renewal of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

    Gautam Dravid;Zhaohui Ye;Holly Hammond;Guibin Chen

  • Serum IgA, IgM, and IgG responses in COVID-19.

    Huan Ma;Weihong Zeng;Hongliang He;Dan Zhao

  • Whole-Genome Sequencing Analysis Reveals High Specificity of CRISPR/Cas9 and TALEN-Based Genome Editing in Human iPSCs

    Cory Smith;Athurva Gore;Wei Yan;Leire Abalde-Atristain

  • Efficient Generation of Functional Dopaminergic Neurons from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Under Defined Conditions

    Andrzej Swistowski;Jun Peng;Qiuyue Liu;Prashant Mali

  • Site-specific gene correction of a point mutation in human iPS cells derived from an adult patient with sickle cell disease

    Jizhong Zou;Prashant Mali;Xiaosong Huang;Sarah N. Dowey

  • Improved Efficiency and Pace of Generating Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Human Adult and Fetal Fibroblasts

    Prashant Mali;Prashant Mali;Zhaohui Ye;Zhaohui Ye;Holly H. Hommond;Xiaobing Yu

  • In vivo commitment and functional tissue regeneration using human embryonic stem cell-derived mesenchymal cells

    Nathaniel S. Hwang;Shyni Varghese;Shyni Varghese;H. Janice Lee;Zijun Zhang;Zijun Zhang

  • Cotransplantation of human mesenchymal stem cells enhances human myelopoiesis and megakaryocytopoiesis in NOD/SCID mice.

    Maria Angelopoulou;Enrico Novelli;Joanna E Grove;Henry M Rinder

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhaohui Ye
Zhaohui Ye US Food and Drug Administration
Prashant Mali
Prashant Mali University of California, San Diego
Curt I. Civin
Curt I. Civin University of Maryland, Baltimore
Lisa R. Yanek
Lisa R. Yanek Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Rasika A. Mathias
Rasika A. Mathias Johns Hopkins University
Sharon Gerecht
Sharon Gerecht Johns Hopkins University
Peter J. Donovan
Peter J. Donovan University of California, Irvine
Saul J. Sharkis
Saul J. Sharkis Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Chi V. Dang
Chi V. Dang University of Pennsylvania
Jeff W. M. Bulte
Jeff W. M. Bulte Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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