A research team led by Prof. ZHENG Hairong from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology has recently developed a new type of acoustic tweezers—the phased-array holographic acoustic tweezers (PAHAT) system.

Researchers from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a strategy for acquiring and analyzing 58 image-based traits (i-traits) during the whole growth period of rice.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden showed that CONSTANS protein negatively modulated salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis by physically associating with and antagonizing the ABSCISIC ACID-RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING FACTOR transcription factors under long-day conditions.

To understand the evolution of 6mA methylation, researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden investigated the differences in 6mA methylation within four wild species of Nelumbo nucifera and the patterns of 6mA methylation between N. nucifera, Arabidopsis thaliana, and Oryza sativa orthologs.

The team from National Center for Nanoscience and Technology developed a fibrin-network-containing microfluidic device that can simultaneously measure the affinity of millions of individually circulating platelets for fibrin architecture, and precisely characterized platelet activity status over tumor progression, realizing cancer-associated thrombus prediction so as to guide timely anticoagulation treatment to reduce cancer mortality.

CHU Jinfang's team from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology proposed a new advanced technology for high-accuracy measurement of tomato systemin (TomSys, an important plant peptide hormone), which provides biologists with a powerful tool to study the TomSys-mediated systemic defense responses and further develop crops with high yield and excellent adaptability.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and the Kunming Institute of Botany reported the first chromosome-level reference genome of Murraya paniculata with a total assembly length of 216.87 Mb from 9 chromosomes and a contig N50 of 18.25 Mb.

A research team from the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology identified key factors restricting natural potential of cyanobacteria to directly convert carbon dioxide into glucose and constructed efficient glucose synthesizing photosynthetic cell factories.

Researchers have developed a novel clustering approach to classify heterogeneous migraines with aura into distinct subgroups, which showed significant differences in response rates to eight weeks of electroacupuncture treatment.

Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden, together with collaborators, generated chromosome-scale reference genome assemblies of A. zhejiangensis and A. hemsleyana to reveal the transient homoploid hybridization of A. zhejiangensis.

A research team led by Prof. MA Yingfei from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology has identified and characterized plasmids harbored by human gut bacterial isolates from culturomics-based studies.

GAO Caixia's group from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology has pioneered the use of artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted methods to discover novel deaminase proteins with unique functions through structural prediction and classification.