A team of researchers led by H. Eric Xu and XIE Xin from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and JIANG Yi from the Lingang Laboratory, provided structural insights into the binding of GPR119 to the endogenous ligand lysophosphatidylcholines (LPC) and the drug candidate APD668.

An international research team led by Dr. ZHANG Huaqiao from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology has used hundreds of new fossil specimens to clarify the anatomy and evolutionary affinity of Saccorhytus, originally thought to be a deuterostome.

An international team of researchers from China and UK, has generated a high-quality genome of sage, and revealed the evolutionary features of diterpenoids biosynthesis in Salvia.

Bisbenzylisoquinoline alkaloids (bis-BIAs) and chlorophyll (Chl) are predominantly accumulated in lotus plumule which is a green tissue in the middle of seeds. A research team from the Wuhan Botanical Garden used RNA sequencing technology to reveal the development and molecular mechanisms of bis-BIAs and Chl biosynthesis in lotus plumule.

Researchers led by Prof. WANG Wei from the Institute of Botany recently studied caves in subtropical East Asia to unravel their colonization history.

In a recent study, researchers from Hohai University and the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden proposed a framework associated with ecosystem services assessment for a more balanced consideration of hydropower development and to take measures to mitigate trade-offs among different objectives.

The research group led by Dr. WANG Zefeng from Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health and Dr. WANG Yang from Dalian Medical University revealed a widespread length dependent splicing regulation in cancer, and discovered a common feature of cancer-specific splicing dysregulation and provided important clinical implications in cancer diagnosis and therapies by analyzing various transcriptome data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA).

A research team led by Prof. LIU Guangxiu from the Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources has isolated a fast-growing desert streptomycete from an extreme environment in the Badain Jaran Desert, and discovered a new tRNA-ASP-AUC gene in its genome.

In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) investigated the relationship between bird acoustic indices and various environmental factors including vegetation and topographic characteristics in a network of tropical forest dynamics plots in southwest China.

Supervised by Prof. GUO Mingquan from the Wuhan Botanical Garden, XU Yongbing conducted in vitro elastase and collagenase enzyme inhibitory assays to evaluate the activities of Moringa oleifera leaf extracts.

Researchers from University of Science and Technology of China identified the neural mechanism and lifelong effect of light-promoted early brain development of mammals. This study highlights the importance of light sensation early in life on the development of learning ability and therefore call attention to suitable light environment for infant care.

A recent study published in Nature Biotechnology revealed the development of high-fidelity Cas13 variants with markedly reduced collateral effects by mutagenesis and demonstrated the feasibility of hfCas13 for efficient on-target RNA degradation with almost no collateral damage in mammalian cells and animals.