A research team led by Prof. LIU Chang from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology and their collaborators investigated how ellipsoid body ring neurons regulate sleep in Drosophila.

Two innovative Chinese oral anti-SARS-CoV-2 drugs, Xiannuoxin (simnotrelvir/ritonavir) and VV116 (deuremidevir hydrobromide), were conditionally approved for marketing by China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) in late January after urgent review and approval under the Special Examination and Approval of Drugs Policy.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden showed that the presence or absence of fungus-growing termite nesting had contrasting effects on soil aggregate stability and distribution of aggregate-associated phosphorus fractions in a mature rubber plantation.

Researchers led by WANG Guodong from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology have provided genetic evidence that geranylfarnesyl diphosphate synthases are responsible for sesterterpene production in Arabidopsis.

Prof. GUI Jianfang's group has developed a precision breeding biotechnology for polyploid fish and created IB-free mutants in amphitriploid gibel carp, in collaboration with Prof. GAO Zexia from Huazhong Agricultural University, who has identified runx2b as a decisive player of IBs in zebrafish.

The research group led by Professor ZHANG Chengcai from the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the existence of a three-dimensional control system for symmetric cell division in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 (Anabaena).

In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden found that PLANT U-BOX 8 (PUB8), a U-box E3 ubiquitin ligase, physically interacted with ABI3 and ABI5 and negatively regulated abscisic acid responses during early Arabidopsis seedling growth.

A research group led by Prof. TIAN Zhixi from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology has investigated the genetic diversity and constructed a pan-3D genome of soybean, revealing the internal relationships among soybean genome, 3D genome and gene expression.

A research team led by Prof. XUE Tian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the neural mechanism of photoreception suppressing thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue (BAT), thereby reducing glucose tolerance (GT) in mice and humans.

To investigate the nutritional profile of each kiwifruit variety, researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden selected 14 kiwifruit varieties, covering red-fleshed, green-fleshed and yellow-fleshed kiwifruits wildly cultivated in China.

For the first time, scientists from the Institute of Zoology and the Beijing Institute of Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine have identified these muscles in mouse legs, raising the prospect of future research that could break the physical speed limits of normal human arm and leg movements.

Professor XIAO Jun's team from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) focused on the allohexaploid wheat and constructed a "reference epigenome" of wheat embryogenesis.