A research team from the Institute of Hydrobiology found that salinity plays a key role in shaping alpine lake biodiversity, influencing the composition and ecological functions of macroinvertebrate communities.

Prof. WANG Wei from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with XUE Naihua, a double PhD student from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Münster, collaborated with an international team to establish the longest continuous astronomical time scale spanning 635.1 ± 0.6 million years ago to 568.3 ± 6.8 million years ago.

A team led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a programmable platform for on-demand design of synthetic plant immune receptors (SPIRs) that recognize proteins from diverse plant pathogens.

A New study led by Prof. LI Ming from the Institute of Microbiology reveals that CRISPR-Cas plays a broader role. Rather than acting alone like a solitary sniper shooting at phages, it also serves as a central command center, directing a network of diverse innate immune systems.

Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden and their collaborators revealed that the growth and functional traits of Parashorea chinensis, a keystone dipterocarp tree in Southeast Asian rainforests, are shaped by the interplay of drought, neighbourhood density, and beneficial soil fungi.

A new study led by Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed how dynamic Cu and Ti active sites in single-atom Cu-TiO₂ catalysts cooperate under light to reduce CO₂ to CO.

Researchers from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have recently found that mixed-species afforestation can significantly enhance soil multifunctionality by reshaping microbial communities and increasing the molecular diversity of soil organic carbon.

A new study led by Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics has developed a plasma-catalysis synergistic process, which employs SiO₂-Al₂O₃ aerogel-supported Ni nanoparticles (Ni/SiAlO) in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor to enable the co-conversion of nitrogen and methane into valuable N-containing compounds under mild conditions.

Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and collaborators revealed a pathogenic cascade in which reduced protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) activity promoted p-tau accumulation and activated microglia amplified p-tau propagation. They then developed a glycoengineered proteolysis-targeting chimera (PROTAC) prodrug nanoparticle platform for lesion-specific p-tau modulation.

A new study led by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has engineered a hollow CdS@polydopamine nanoreactor that integrates two biomimetic features, providing a new strategy for mimicking the functions of living cells in synthetic nanomaterials.

Rresearchers from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden have unveiled the first high-resolution single-nucleus transcriptomic atlas of xylem development in rubber trees. Using single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq), they traced the developmental journey from cambium to mature xylem and identified a novel transcription factor cascade that regulates secondary cell wall formation.

A team led by Prof. ZHOU Jinqiu from the Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science (Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology) constructed a yeast strain named SYNE27^α in which all 300 known spliceosomal introns have been eliminated. The viability of this intron-free strain demonstrates that spliceosomal introns are not essential for yeast survival.

Researchers from Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health have uncovered the molecular mechanism by which the plant-specific KCS6-CER2 enzyme complex catalyzes very-long-chain fatty acid (VLCFA) elongation, which provides the first complete structural reconstruction of the condensation reaction underlying plant VLCFA elongation.

A new study led by the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that agricultural advances could help maintain food production on the Tibetan Plateau under scenarios involving steep-sloping cropland retirement, livestock reduction, and warmer and wetter climate trends.

A research team from the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences optimized the CRBN ligand and linker moieties, leading to two novel, highly selective PROTAC degraders, designated XYD224 and XYD270.

A new study led by researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Xinjiang Normal University sheds light on a significant difference in how C₃ and C₄ grassland plants adapt to changing environments.

Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences carried out the first dual-frequency spectral study of its kind and produced a spatially resolved spectral-index map on event-horizon scales, revealing how the spectral index changes with distance from the black hole.

Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics have developed an external electric-field modulation strategy that boosts the sensitivity of bimetallic MXene SERS sensors by three orders of magnitude, enabling trace detection of molecules for chemical sensing, environmental monitoring, and biomedical diagnostics.