According to a research published recently in Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry, Chinese scientists revealed new function of ganoderic acids from Ganoderma lucidum(G. lucidum) for treating breast cancer. This is the first time scientists identified potential targets of ganoderic acids for breast cancer treatment using bioinformatics techniques.

The research group of XIAO Jun at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, identified a trimer complex, TaNF-Y, which can simultaneously regulate the biosynthesis of starch and seed storage protein.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) investigated the water flux recovery of the forest in the Ailao Mountain National Nature Reserve, a mountainous water catchment area for the Lancang River basin and a subtropical ecological conservation area in SW China, after an extreme snow disaster. They focused on how the water fluxes of subtropical forests responded to extreme weather disturbances and the recovery process over several years after a disaster.

Recently, a group of Chinese scientists has added to our knowledge of the dispersion of early dairy fermentation practices, however, by completing the world’s first metagenomic study of Bronze Age kefir cheese unearthed from Xiaohe cemetery—the most ancient dairy remains known to date.

A research team led by ZHENG Mingyue, ZHANG Sulin, and LI Xutong from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool called PertKGE, which deconvolutes CPI from perturbation transcriptomics using knowledge graph embedding.

A research team led by Prof. YANG Weikang from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences assessed the effectiveness of 22 wildlife CSs along the S11 expressway.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and Wuhan Botanical Garden with their collaborators carried out a meta-analysis to quantify global drivers of variation in the invertebrate effect, the collective contribution of multiple groups of invertebrates (e.g., termites, wood-boring insects), on wood decomposition.

A research team led by GAN Yong and YU Miaorong from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, in collaboration with HU Guoqing’s group from Zhejiang University, combined theoretical modeling with experimental studies to reveal the key role of cholesterol in regulating delivery of RNA drugs by exosomes as well as the underlying mechanism.

Prof. GU Zhanjun from the Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Dr. YAN Junfang and Dr. ZHANG Fuquan from Peking Union Medical College Hospital, discovered that cuproptosis may serve as a new target for radiosensitization in re-irradiation.

A research group led by LU Fei at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently conducted a benchmark test of third-generation sequencing alignment algorithms and structural variation detection algorithms with PacBio high-fidelity (HiFi) sequencing data.

A research group led by Dr. HE Kangmin from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently identified a novel endocytic recycling mechanism with kiss-and-run membrane fusion. Scientists named the mechanism clathrin-associated fast endosomal recycling pathway (CARP).

A recent study, jointly conducted by scientists from China and the USA, has provided new insights about biodiversity, exotic invasion, and their relationship to climate change. Published in Nature Plants​, the research uncovers the climatic niche mechanisms that shape both the vulnerability of native ecosystems and the invasiveness of exotic species in a warming world.