Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden presented a distinct pattern of effects associated with mistletoe herbivory in host plants. They investigated the effect of host species on parasitic mistletoe herbivory by examining the herbivory rates and defensive traits of three mistletoe species growing on a combined total of 11 host species.

A research group led by Prof. LONG Dong from the University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an IDP spectroscopy method based on the membrane paramagnetic relaxation enhancement (mPRE) technique, which has achieved high-precision modeling of the internal conformations, orientations, and immersion depths of IDPs.

GAO Caixia's group from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology developed a series of new prime editors based on the Cas12a protein, further expanding the targeting scope and applications of precision genome editing.

A research group led by Prof. WANG Hui from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has introduced a metal-free nanozyme based on graphene quantum dots (GQDs) for highly efficient tumor chemodynamic therapy.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden found an attractive Agapetes plant with fruits in the understory of a primeval subtropical forest and introduced it to the garden. After detailed morphological examination, the researchers confirmed that the specimens represented a species new to science.

A research team led by Prof. MIAO Peng from the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology proposed a nano-impact electrochemical sensing strategy for the highly sensitive determination of miRNA.

Prof. ZHOU Bo's group from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the collaborators, have built a high-throughput single-cell metabolomics (hi-scMet) platform from scratch combining antibody staining, pre-fixation, flow sorting, automated sample processing, and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry, which is capable of detecting more than 100 metabolites from single cells.

The team led by Prof. DU Yarui and Prof. XU Guoliang from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science, Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed the spatiotemporal regulation mechanism of Tet dioxygenases by low-complexity domain (LCD) located in the catalytic active center.

Researchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and their collaborators sought to identify the climate factors that shape Tsuga's distribution, identify climate thresholds, and elucidate distribution dynamics in the context of significant climate changes over the last 1,070 thousand years.

Dr. Raymond Chan and his team from the Institute of Psychology have identified dysfunctions in range adaptation across the spectrum of schizophrenia disorders, which include clinically diagnosed individuals as well as those with subclinical psychopathological features.

Drs. HUANG Jia and Raymond Chan from the Institute of Psychology, along with collaborators from Peking University Sixth Hospital, conducted a further study to examine neural mechanism of humor processing in patients with first-episode schizophrenia.

Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden investigated the net carbon dioxide uptake in a peatland under simulated warming, elevated nitrogen deposition, and changes in vegetation composition.