A research group led by Profs. WU Beili and ZHAO Qiang at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences determined the cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of the class B glucagon receptor (GCGR) bound to β-arrestin 1 (βarr1) in glucagon-bound and ligand-free states.

A major study by Prof. WANG Lei and WANG Chih-chen's group at the Institute of Biophysics and Prof. LIU Guanghui's group at the Institute of Zoology has shed light on the role of ER-generated ROS in cell senescence.

A research team led by Prof. ZHANG Jinsong at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology developed an efficient screening system and identified a series of rice mutants, mao huzi (mhz), a Chinese name for cat whiskers, to describe the scattered adventitious roots in ethylene response mutants.

Researchers from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and the Precision Measurement Science and Technology Innovation Research Institute proposed a strategy using in-vivo chemical cross-linking and mass spectrometry to decode the dynamic structure of proteins within cells.

Researchers led by Dr. LI Hongju from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology have revealed that the female gamete in flowering plants controls fertilization recovery by secreting pollen tube attractants.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and the Kunming Institute of Botany examined the effects of temperature, phenology, and powdery mildew disease on rubber latex yield in March using observational data on daily rubber latex yield combined with detailed phenology, powdery mildew, and temperature data from 2004 to 2010 at a state-owned farm in the Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China.

Researchers from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics and their collaborators have unveiled the cellular composition and spatial architecture of tumor microenvironment in multiple primary lung cancers.

Scientists from the Institute of Biophysics reported the high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy structure of the human SUV420H1 bound to H2A.Z nucleosome, revealing the molecular mechanism of SUV420H1's preferential recognition of H2A.Z nucleosome and catalysis of H4K20me2.

A new type of analysis of a spectacular 120-million-year-old fossil skeleton of the extinct early bird Jeholornis from northeastern China has revealed the oldest evidence for birds eating leaves, marking the earliest known evolution of arboreal plant-eating among birds.

Dr. Raymond Chan's team from the Institute of Psychology and his collaborators have recently shown that amotivation and anhedonia, rather than expressive dysfunction, play a crucial role in determining the social functioning of schizophrenia patients.

In a study published in Structure, researchers from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences presented a quantitative analysis method for cryo-FIB damage and demonstrated that low-energy beam polishing was essential for producing high-quality thinner lamellae.

Research groups led by Prof. YANG Huangtian from SINH and collaborators found that intramyocardial injection of human embryonic stem cell-derived epicardial cells at the acute phase of myocardial infarction ameliorates functional worsening and scar formation in mouse and swine hearts, which provided a new therapeutic approach for infarcted hearts.