In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden monitored the leaf water status, leaf gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence and root pressure of potted Paraboea rufescens during dehydration and rehydration. They also investigated the water content and chlorophyll fluorescence of P. rufescens leaves in the field during the dry season.

In a recent study, Prof. LEI Fumin from the Institute of Zoology, together with researchers from Chicago's Field Museum and Zhejiang University, revealed that genomic attributes are correlated with life history traits in Neoaves, the avian clade that makes up over 95% of all extant bird species.

A research team at the Wuhan Botanical Garden used hermetic bags made by natural emulsion to divide the nutrients for the above- and below-ground parts of macrophytes, and explored the characteristics of ammonium utilization in two representative species of submerged macrophytes.

Recently, a research group led by Prof. LI Lele from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and collaborators reported an enzymatic-amplification strategy for in vivo imaging of inflammation-associated mRNA in a disease site-specific manner.

A team of researchers led by XIE Cen and HE Shijun from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the colloaborators, revealed the molecular mechanisms of hepatic bile acid metabolism affecting intestinal barrier function.

In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) suggested that karst ROCs affect the physical and chemical parameters of soil and adjacent plant biomass significantly on fine scales, and these effects are correlated with the size parameters associated with ROCs, such as coverage area.

Recently, the research group led by Prof. ZHANG Chengcai from the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported in the journal PNAS that HetF, as a protease, regulated cell division and heterocyst differentiation by controlling the inhibitory effects of PatU3.

Negative symptoms are core features of schizophrenia and determinants of clinical and functional outcomes. Dr. Raymond Chan from the Institute of Psychology and his collaborators have adopted network analysis to specifically examine the interrelationship between negative symptom domains captured by different rating scales, and to examine the domain-specific correspondence across multiple scales in schizophrenia patients.

A research team led by Prof. JIANG Liwei from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, collaborating with Prof. Reza Abdi from Harvard Medical School in the United States, has investigated the characterization of platelet surface membrane protein integrin cells in the lymph node.

During a fieldwork in Sulawesi and Borneo, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) identified two new species of Engelhardia, and named them as Engelhardia anminiana and Engelhardia borneensis, respectively.

Researchers from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science have proposed a new kind of near-infrared-triggered nanozyme based on iron oxide nanocrystals embedded in N-doped carbon nanosheets, which is promising for synergistic cascade tumor therapy.

A research team led by Prof. ZHANG Jinsong from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, disclosed a new crosstalk between the phytohormones ethylene and auxin at a previously underappreciated level.