Author：Yang Xue  On October 30th, the internationally renowned journal Nucleic Acids Research (Impact Factor 11.147) published online the latest research findings on the construction of the functional genomics database of Malvaceae plants co-finished by Professor Zhou Yu and Academician Zhu Yuxian from the College of Life Sciences. This has provided a powerful online analytical tool for botani...

Author：Xie Zhangbin  On October 7th, Nature Materials published an article online, reporting the latest research findings of Prof. Xu Nan, a member of Institute for Advanced Study. The paper is entitled “Directional massless Dirac fermions in a layered van der Waals material with one-dimensional long-range order”.Wuhan University is the first author affiliation. Yang Tianyu and Wan Qiang, th...

Author：School of Information Management  On October 2, 2019, Nature Biotechnology, an international authoritative journal, published online a review article by Huang Ying, the associate professor of the School of Information Management, and the center for Science and Technology Innovation and Policy Research (STIP) of Georgia institute of technology in the form of Data Page under the column "N...

In our daily life, there is an oddity: some people with a huge stomach can keep slender while someone of big size may put on weight very easily even on water. Have you ever thought it is the obesity factor that is taking effects. Does it sound exciting if obesity factor is figured out and applied by scientists to effectively fight against obesity and treat diseases?Recently, the team of Prof. S...

Recently, the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), an authoritative international periodical in the field of chemistry, published the research achievements of Professor Gary J. Cheng and Hexiang Deng. The paper which is titled "Nanoscale Laser Metallurgy and Patterning in Air Using MOFs", and whose first author is a postdoctoral called Jiang Haoqing, appears on the cover of 13th iss...

WUHAN, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have identified a liver-secreted protein in mice that stimulates the fat formation in other organ and exacerbates obesity, a finding which will provide new strategies for treating obesity and related disorders.Researchers from the Wuhan University based in China's Hubei Province observed in experiments that when mice displayed less lipid formation in...

On March 6, 2019, Science Advances published online the latest research findings of Professor Du Haining’s research group on posttranslational modification and regulation of protein activity and function. This research reveals how the methylated modification of methyltransferase G9a exerts on Plk1, then regulates its kinase activity as well as the function that methylated modification exerts i...

On February 18th, Nature Nanotechnology, the international authoritative journal with an impact factor of 37, published online a paper of Professor Cao Yuliang's team from School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University. This paper introduces the team’s research prospect on the combination of battery materials technology research and its application.​This paper is entitled Bridgi...

On December 3rd, 2018, Prof. Song Baoliang’s team from College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University published online their newest research results in Nature Communications (Impact Factor/IF=12.353). They discovered the potent HMG-CoA reductase (HMGCR) degrader Cmpd 81 that eliminates statin-induced reductase accumulation and lowers cholesterol.Postdoctoral researchers Jiang Shiyou and Tang Jingj...

​The team of Professor Xiang Jiuyu from the School of Marxism, Wuhan University, has published an original research paper in the SSCI international academic journalAnnals of General Psychiatry, which is affiliated to Springer Nature. The paper is entitled Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the empathy quotient among Chinese minority college students.The paper points out that whe...