Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and their collaborators presented a new method combining the Farquhar photosynthesis model and the random forest algorithm to investigate the diurnal variation of stomatal responses in leaves of six tropical tree species in southern China.

Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden conducted a cross-experiment on the addition of polystyrene microplastics and the diversity of invasive submerged macrophytes to analyze their effects on the physicochemical properties of the sediment, the structure of the microbial community, and the potential rates of the various dissimilatory nitrate reduction processes.

The research group led by Prof. George Fu Gao from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the collaborators from Tsinghua University and Southeast University, uncovered the connection between virus-receptor interaction and pathologic phenomenon through the modulation of cell signaling, and the establishment of links between virus infection and post-HFMD onychomadesis.

A research team led by LI Tiehai from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed an integrated chemoenzymatic strategy for modular synthesis of a comprehensive 65-membered ganglioside glycan library.

Researchers led by Dr. WANG Lei and WANG Bing from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology have shown that the non-transcriptional activity of the transcriptional repressor proteins SUPPRESSOR OF MAX2 1 (SMAX1) and SMAX1-like2 (SMXL2) mediates the karrikin signaling and red light response in Arabidopsis.

Researchers at the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology have proposed a distance-based visual miRNA biosensor based on a DNA hydrogel system.

A team led by ZHENG Mingyue from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, introduced a scoring approach called EquiScore. EquiScore demonstrated good predictive performance on unseen proteins in virtual screening scenario and analogs ranking scenario. When used alongside different docking methods, it effectively enhanced their screening ability. Simultaneously, EquiScore is capable of capturing key inter-molecular interactions, providing useful clues for rational drug design.

A research team led by ZHANG Yong'e and WANG Haoyi from the Institute of Zoology has characterized the diversity of DNA transposons and expanded the genome engineering toolbox.

Researchers led by Prof. RAO Zihe from the Institute of Biophysics have used various experimental techniques, including single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography and biochemical experiments, to unravel the conformational dynamics of the full-length African swine fever virus-encoded type II DNA topoisomerase pP1192R in complex with nucleic acids and verify its enzymatic activity in vitro.

Researchers led by Prof. JI Hongbin from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with Prof. YE Dan from Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University, reported that the TET2-STAT3-CXCL5 nexus promotes neutrophil lipid transfer to fuel lung adeno-to-squamous transition.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden evaluated the transformation effectiveness of the green economy from the framework of synergistic coordination of ecology, air, and economy, and analyzed industrial patterns and landscape characteristics in response to these processes.

A research team led by Dr. LUAN Shenghua from the Institute of Psychology has provided comprehensive evidence that impulsivity is a stable, measurable, and predictive personality trait.