Recently, a group led by SHI Guohua from Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (SIBET) designed a flat-field apochromatic objective lens structure under a mesoscale field and developed a mesoscale microscope objective with the largest reported FOV and the widest working band at sub-micron resolution.

The Lauraceae is an important basal angiosperm group, widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Beilschmiedia is one of the largest genera in Lauraceae and has a typical pantropical distribution. During field work from Menghai county to Lancang county in Yunnnan province, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) collected an unknown fruiting Lauraceae taxon.

A research group led by Prof. XUE Yuanchao from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, systematically reviewed the development of RNA interactome technologies and analyzed the main advantages and technical limitations of different technologies, providing important guidance for the effective selection of tools for RNA functional research.

In a study published in New Phytologist, researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences generated a high-quality chromosome-level assembly for C. odorata. This is the first telomere-to-telomere (T2T) genome in magnoliids and provides a valuable genomic basis underlying the phylogenetic position of magnoliids.

Recently, a research team led by Prof. YAN Xiyun extensively reviewed the representative research progress of nanozyme catalysis in medicine, discussing feasible in vivo application design strategies and looking ahead at the challenges and prospects of clinical translation of nanozymes.

Recently, a research team led by Prof. CHU Yannan from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences adopted methionine regulation strategy and found that esophageal cancer cells can be identified by two volatile organic compounds (VOCs) with the help of untargeted analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS).

A group of scientists led by Prof. CAI Xinxia from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with international colleagues, developed an innovative approach to investigating the dynamics of neuronal networks.

Researchers from Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed that SNX25 regulates GPCR-G protein signaling from endosomes by forming a complex with canonical RGS proteins in a redox-modulated manner.

Prof. TANG Shibing from Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the collaborators, developed a fluorosulfate containing enrichable and latent bioreactive unnatural amino acid to characterize protein-protein interactions in live cells.

A research team from the Hangzhou Institute of Medicine of the Chinese Academy of Sciences resolved the first high-resolution structure of the sgc8c DNA aptamer that targets protein tyrosine kinase 7 (PTK7), engineered two optimal sgc8c variants for disease theranostics efficiently, and revealed new principles for the sophisticated structural and functional organization of DNA molecules.

The lab of Prof. George Fu Gao at the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the spike (S) protein structures of the recently emerged BA.2.86, JN.1, EG.5, EG.5.1 and HV.1 subvariants of SARS-CoV-2, and conducted systematic comparative analysis on these subvariants.

Dr. Raymond Chan from the Institute of Psychology, together with his collaborators, have designed a cross-sectional study to measure negative symptoms using second-generation scales in patients with treatment resistant schizophrenia.