A research group led by Prof. XIAO Wuhan from the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) identified that egg laying defective nine 1 prolyl hydroxylation of hypoxia-induced transcription factor HIF1α is repressed by SET7-catalyzed lysine methylation.

A research team led by Prof. YANG Hui from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology developed a human cornea-on-a-chip to validate the therapeutic effect of MSCs exosomes on corneal diseases.

Through a joint effort of the Sino-Africa Joint Research Center and the National Museums of Kenya, several field expeditions were carried out between 2015 and 2019, with an effort put to expand geographical coverage to areas where plant collections were previously scarce. Researchers also sorted out plants previously collected at Taita Hills, supplementing records from field surveys to form a comprehensive checklist of the area.

Researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology proposed an ecological model for deciphering the dynamics of the gut microbiome in response to dietary fiber.

In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) tried to explore the ferns and lycophytes' diversity of Xishuangbanna with special emphasis on conservation efforts provided by the currently established protected areas (PAs).

Supervised by Prof. HAN Yuepeng from the Wuhan Botanical Garden, Ph.D. student ZHAO Lei compared the difference between sun-exposed peel and shaded peel of peach fruit by phenotypic and transcriptome analysis, and an elongated hypocotyl 5-homolog gene PpHYH was found to be a light-response regulator controlling anthocyanin accumulation int fruit peel under light condition.

Prof. ZHANG Xiangyang from the Institute of Psychology has studied the cognitive symptoms between heavy smoking and non-heavy smoking patients with schizophrenia in the Chinese Han group, and found that heavy smoking patients with schizophrenia had less cognitive symptoms and fewer negative symptoms than non-heavy smoking patients with schizophrenia.

Researchers from the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology have revealed the reasons for the inevitable occurrence of multi-drug resistance during tumor therapy, after long engagement of tumor multidrug resistance mechanisms investigation.

In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) tried to explore the responses of the carbon-water coupling of rubber plantation to phenological changes, stand ages, planting densities, as well as hydrothermal conditions.

Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden discovered Coleanthus subtilis in the Songhua River basin in Harbin, they sequenced and assembled the chloroplast genome of it for the first time, and did a comparative and phylogenetic analysis with other species in the family Poaceae.

Chinese researchers led by Dr. WANG Sujing at the Institute of Psychology have established CAS(ME)³, a large-scale, spontaneous micro-expression database with depth information and high ecological validity. It is expected to lead the next generation of micro-expression analysis.

Dr. YANG Jia and her colleagues, under the guidance of Prof. HUANG Changbing from the Institute of Psychology and Prof. LU Zhonglin at New York University Shanghai and New York University, have developed a multicomponent theoretical framework to model and identify contributions of multiple long and short-term processes in perceptual learning.