Researchers led by Prof. WANG Yanchang and Prof. GAO Lei from the Wuhan Botanical Garden, together with collaborators from the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, and The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, generated chromosome-scale reference genome assemblies of Actinidia arguta to dissect adaptive evolution and trait localization.

Researchers led by Prof. TU Yiheng from the Institute of Psychology, in collaboration with international experts, have found that individuals suffering from chronic musculoskeletal pain may face a higher high risk of brain aging.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and Anhui University provided the first quantification of the relative explanations of six factors that have been commonly considered to be associated with the interspecific variation in seed coat ratio, highlighting the important role of seed desiccation response and seed dormancy in explaining interspecific variation in the seed coat ratio.

A research team led by Profs. XU Tao and HE Shunmin from the Institute of Biophysics has elucidated the impact of non-coding regulatory elements on phenotypic evolution under adaptive selection in Han Chinese genome.

Researchers from the Institute of Biophysics, in collaboration with scientists from the Institute of Automation, have used artificial intelligence technology to empower in-situ structural biology and proposed a fast and accurate particle picking method based on weakly supervised deep learning, named DeepETPicker.

Researchers led by Prof. LIU Wenzhi from the Wuhan Botanical Garden characterized the distribution of the nitrification and denitrification rates and their communities in channel sediments, riparian rhizosphere soils, and riparian bulk soils in 30 nitrogen-polluted rivers along a latitudinal gradient across China.

A research team led by Prof. XU Pingyong from the Institute of Biophysics introduced the first negative regulator of NOX4 translation, the pivotal factor EI24. They uncovered the molecular mechanism by which EI24 precisely regulates H₂O₂ production by controlling NOX4 translation, and its implications for maintaining the redox equilibrium of pancreatic beta cells and insulin synthesis.

Focusing on five beaked Pedicularis species within the community that do not produce nectar and their three primary pollinating bumblebees, researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted a five-year field experiment to investigate in depth the factors that influence bumblebee flower-visiting preferences.

The researchers led by Prof. SUN Linfeng from the University of Science and Technology of China, together with Prof. Eugenia Russinova from the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, discovered the first brassinosteroid (BR) exporter and presented its structure in both the substrate-unbound and the BR-bound states.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden investigated the differences in flower water use strategies between basal angiosperms and derived groups (monocots and dicots).

A research team led by Prof. ZHAO Yan from the Institute of Biophysics has revealed three different conformations of the full-length wild-type human GlyT1 transporter, firstly providing the elucidation of substrate recognition and the mechanism by which three anti-schizophrenia drug candidates selectively inhibit GlyT1.

A study by PAN Guangjin's group from the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences uncovered the function and molecular mechanism of acetyltransferase HBO1 in the maintenance of human embryonic stem cell pluripotency and mesendoderm specification.