Researchers from the Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, and the Institute of Automation, utilizing data processing techniques from astronomy and a field programmable gate array graphics processing unit (FPGA-GPU) hybrid architecture, performed real-time registration, signal extraction, and analysis on data streams of up to 500MB/s.

Scientists from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the collaborators from the University of Manchester, developed a method called construction of a repetitive array by transformation (CAT) for efficiently inserting rDNA arrays at any designated sites, which reshapes the ribosomal rDNA organization in budding yeast.

Prof. CHEN Zhiduan's team from the Institute of Botany and international collaborators have identified the spatial heterogeneity of biodiversity hotspots and endemism centers. With this information, they have identified the conservation priority for vascular plants in Madagascar.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and their collaborators analyzed how two traits, branch density and spine presence, evolved through deep time and in response to herbivory regimes in Combretaceae, a globally distributed plant family. Using a phylogenetic comparative approach, they examined the emergence of dense branching and spines as a two-step evolutionary process for defensive cage structures in mammalian-dominated ecosystems.

The research team led by Prof. NIE Guangjun from National Center for Nanoscience and Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof. YU Jiakuo from Tsinghua Changgung Hospital Medical Center of Tsinghua University, reported that chondrocyte-mimicking nanoparticles containing a Wnt pathway inhibitor adhere to cartilage for improved treatment in osteoarthritis (OA) models.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden studied the application of CRISPR/Cas9 technology in gene editing, especially for sgRNA design against long noncoding RNA (lncRNA).

Prof. ZHANG Xiaoming at the Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Profs. GAO Qiang, FAN Jia and YANG Li at Fudan University have uncovered an unexpected level of complexity hidden within neutrophils, which were previously thought to be a relatively uniform population of short-lived immune cells.

A research team led by Prof. FU Xiongfei from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a dynamic model integrating protein allocation with flux balance analysis, which can predict the metabolic flux distribution during the nutrient shifts even without the detailed information of enzyme kinetics.

Researchers at the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology of Sciences have designed a novel type of red-emissive silicon nanodots for mitochondrial dynamic tracking and blood-brain barrier penetration imaging.

The research group led by Prof. ZHANG Chengcai from the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reported the molecular mechanism of the C domain in helping the A domain of the same NRPS module to select specific substrate efficiently during catalysis.

A new study from the Nihewan basin of China has revealed that hominins who possessed advanced knapping abilities equivalent to Mode 2 technological features occupied East Asia as early as 1.1 million years ago (Ma), which is 0.3 Ma earlier than the date associated with the first handaxes found in East Asia.

A research group led by ZHANG Yu from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has determined plant plastid-encoded RNA polymerase supercomplex in apo and transcription elongation state, which provides a structural basis for the mechanistic and functional study of transcription regulation in plant chloroplasts.