Dr. Yuting Wu is a chemical biologist whose research focuses on developing DNA-based analytical and imaging tools to study how metal ions and metabolites regulate gene expression and cellular function in health and disease. She earned her PhD in Cell Biology from Peking University, where she used zebrafish models to investigate hair cell regeneration and cell fate determination. She subsequently completed postdoctoral training in chemistry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Texas at Austin, where she developed DNA-based platforms for sensing and imaging metal ions and metabolites in living systems. Dr. Wu’s current research integrates chemical state–specific measurements of metal ions, including redox balance, with transcriptomic and proteomic analyses to investigate iron-driven mechanisms in neurodegenerative disease and cancer ferroptosis. Her work has led to the development of DNA-based sensing and imaging platforms that enable quantitative interrogation of ion homeostasis and metal-dependent regulatory processes in living systems, linking chemical measurements with disease-relevant molecular mechanisms.