A collaborative study recently published in Nature Communications has discovered the essential role of artery mediating de novo colonization of HSCs in the fetal BM. CHEN Qi from Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is the co-first author.

A research team from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology has proposed a boundary-aware context neural network for medical image segmentation.

Dr. LIANG Jing from the Institute of Psychology, together with collaborators at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, has recently found that exposing male mice to social defeat stress, a mimicry of chronic stress, tended their behavior toward the habitual behavior rather than goal-directed one.

Researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology and their collaborators have found that body temperature exerts a greater effect on lifespan than metabolic rate.

By constructing a long-term (36 years) forest conversion scenario in subtropical region of China, researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden have examined dynamics of soil microbial carbon: nitrogen: phosphorus stoichiometry and relationships at three soil depths (0-10, 10-30, and 30-60 cm).

In a correspondence published in Current Biology, researchers have identified three active compounds in sex pheromones produced by virgin queens of the species Vespa mandarinia, the world’s largest hornet. When placed in field traps, synthetic compounds of these compounds and a queen-equivalent mixture rapidly attracted hundreds of males instead of females or other species.

In a recent study, a collaborated research team led by Prof. WANG Hui from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science reported the synthesis of hollow cuprous oxide@nitrogen-doped carbon (HCONC) by one-step hydrothermal method as well as their applications in efficient chemodynamic therapy.

A research team led by Prof. HUANG Zhenying from the Institute of Botany, along with other collaborators, have unveiled the linkage between plant diversity and soil microbial diversity of different taxa in the grasslands. They investigated the relationship between above- and below-ground biodiversity along a large transect gradient in the grasslands of northern China, covering 1,700 km geographical distance.

Chinese researchers led by Dr. ZHANG Jianjun from the Institute of Psychology have reported that adolescent stress affects adult behavior response strategy, and N-Methyl-D-aspartic (NMDA) receptors, a type of glutamate receptors, in the dorsolateral striatum (DLS) may play an essential role in this effect.

In a study published in Cell Reports Medicine, a group of Chinese scientists revealed the oncometabolite role of progesterone in advanced prostate cancer and strategies to eliminate its oncogenic effect as an aspect of prostate cancer treatment.

In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) and their international collaborators review knowledge on seed dispersal by the Sumatran rhino, using newly collected datasets along with published and unpublished research collected mainly from the 1960s to the 1980s. They proved that rhinos and elephants played different roles in dispersing seeds according to the traits of the plant species.

Laboratory of Protein expression system and microbial metabolism led by Prof. ZHANG Dawei at Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed genetic elements toolkit based on an operator from maltose operon in B. subtilis with high robustness and stringency.