During a botanical exploration in Luzhi River valley, Yunnan, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden collected an unknown Ceropegia species belonging to sect. Chionopegia. After a literature review and morphological studies, the researchers confirmed that it was a new species to science.

Land snails and their mucus were used in ancient times by Hippocrates and Pliny to treat pain associated with burns, abscesses and other wounds. Inspired by this ancient therapy, Prof. WU Mingyi and his team at the Kunming Institute of Botany identified a natural biological adhesive from snail secretions, evaluated its in vitro adhesion properties and studied its in vivo effects on wound healing.

Researchers led by Prof. ZHOU Xuming from the Institute of Zoology used phylogenetic comparative methods to analyze data on various traits from about 1,000 mammalian species, including maximum lifespan, body mass, sociality, lifestyle, ecological factors, life history traits, and phylogenetic relationships.

In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden investigated how hydraulic traits and gas exchange parameters of savanna plants with different leaf habits (deciduous, semi-deciduous and evergreen) or growth forms (tree and shrub) responded to the extreme drought in 2019 in Yuanjiang.

Recently, researchers from the Beijing Institute of Genomics of Chinese Academy of Sciences (China National Center for Bioinformation) have developed and released Database Commons—a catalog of worldwide biological databases.

In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden showed that multitrophic soil organisms of different body sizes are good predictors of soil biodiversity and are essential to maintain ecosystem multifunctionality in tropical land use systems.

Researchers from the Institute of Biophysics and their collaborators have elucidated the supramolecular architecture of the TOC-TIC supercomplex through cryo-electron microscopy.

Prof. JIU Yaming's group at Institut Pasteur of Shanghai of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a previously unrevealed function of intermediate filaments that protect bacterial replication via constructing a cage embracing the replication machinery.

Cluster with more severe emotion-behaviour decoupling and experiential pleasure deficits had the worst endpoint social functioning and more severe negative symptoms endpoint. Emotional expression deficits appeared to play little role in differentiating subjects into different clinical and functional outcomes.

Prof. ZHANG Xiangyang's group from the Institute of Psychology recruited 627 male methamphetamine patients to assess the prevalence and correlates of antisocial personality disorder among methamphetamine patients.

In a recent study, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden have investigated the water and nutrient relations in mistletoes compared with their hosts.

Prof. LIU Lingli's research team from the Institute of Botany investigated nutrient acquisition strategies of arbuscular mycorrhizae and ectomycorrhizal trees in the Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning experiment in a subtropical forest in China, where trees of the two mycorrhizal types were initially evenly planted in mixtures of two, four, eight or 16 tree species.