Dr. Raymond Chan from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with Dr. Simon Lui at the University of Hong Kong, and Drs. J Poon and Lam Ming at the Castle Peak Hospital, has recruited 391 treatment-seeking substance use disorder patients, and measured substance use, dependence features, clinical symptoms and personality traits using well validated scales.

A research team led by Dr. WANG Hong and Dr. DAI Ji from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology has recently reported the first reliable hypothermia in nonhuman primates caused by activating a group of hypothalamic neurons.

Researchers by Prof. Dr. SHUI Guanghou at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) revealed the lipidome atlas of the developing heart uncovers dynamic membrane lipid attributes underlying cardiac structural and metabolic maturation.

Researchers from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology have proposed a new technology, called optical tweezer-assisted pool-screening and single-cell isolation system, which achieves 99.7% purity of sorting target cells, with all done in real-time.

Profs. DAI Jianwu and LU Falong at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, together with Prof. HUANG Jialing at Xiamen University, utilized the single-cell chromatin accessibility technique to reveal the underlying regulatory mechanism of spinal cord neural cells development.