Prof. LI Zhiyuan's group at Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences proposed a novel method for the ultrasensitive and specific detection of the highly pathogenic helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) strains through loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) combined with the latest CRISPR/Cas12a technology.

Researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology and their collaborators heterologously expressed a tyrosinase gene in Escherichia coli to synthesize melanin nanoparticles under mild and environmentally friendly conditions.

Dr. Andrew Dillin's group from the University of California, Berkeley, together with Dr. TIAN Ye's group from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, summarized recent studies on the mitokines-mediated inter-tissue communication of mitochondrial stress signaling and their effects on regulating the metabolic health.

A research team led by Dr. ZENG Jianxiong from Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. ZHAO Zhen from Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, have discovered the cGAS-STING pathway-mediated innate immune mechanism underlying the development and progression of neurodegenerative Alzheimer's disease (AD).

Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden selected two lotus species, Nelumbo nucifera with red flowers and Nelumbo lutea with yellow flowers in Nelumbo, and their F1 hybrids as experimental subjects. Based on single nucleotide polymorphisms from re-sequencing and transcriptome sequencing among parents and F1 hybrids, the global allele-specific expression analysis was carried out to uncover the relative contributions of genome-wide cis-and trans-regulatory divergences to differentiation of flower color in interspecies.

Researchers from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Institute of Biological Sciences established a comprehensive framework for understanding the molecular mechanisms by which OspC3 employs host Ca²⁺-free calmodulin (CaM) protein as a cofactor to catalyze the novel ADP-riboxanation of caspase-4/11 and block host caspase-4/11-GSDMD pyroptosis pathway.

In a recent study, Prof. Dr. JIANG Yuqiang's group at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology developed a novel gold nanocluster-based tumor radiodynamic therapy and successfully applied it to efficient tumor treatment.

A research team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology has evaluated the microbial DNA introduced in different ancient DNA experimental protocols to better understand the background contaminant DNA in ultra-clean laboratories and to minimize contamination.

In a recent study, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) used the big data to map the potential artificial and natural tree coverage of the historical and revisited records of Engelhardia.

Researchers at the Wuhan Botanical Garden have investigated the effects of restoration approaches and hydrological changes on soil properties, vegetation diversity, microbial characteristics, denitrification rates, and greenhouse gas fluxes at three flooding zones in both active revegetation and natural regeneration sites in the Three Gorges Reservoir.

A recent study by Prof. CHONG Kang's group from the Institute of Botany has revealed a novel cold domesticated repair mechanism for DNA damage in rice, providing corresponding elite modules for the improvement of chilling tolerance trait in rice with the codon repeats at a single site.

To verify and confirm the taxonomic status of Pueraria omeiensis, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden collected specimens of Pueraria species in Southwest China from 2018 to 2021. Both morphological characters and phylogenetic analyses strongly supported Pueraria omeiensis as a distinct species.