Recently, focusing on the application of organic room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) in tumor imaging, a collaborative study conducted by the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences of Wuhan University (WHU) and the Taikang Institute of Life Sciences was published online on Science Advances. The study was conducted in collaboration with Professor Zhang Yufeng from Wuhan University’s Sto...

​On February 10, Science published online a Letters article titled ‘Soil microplastics pollution in agriculture’ by the research group of Li Zhongfen, a professor from the School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering at Wuhan University. The paper shows how soil microplastics are threatening agriculture and human health, and appeals to related stakeholders, including government depar...

(Xinhua, Guozhong) On December 7, the journal Nature published the latest research results of Yan Huan's research group in the field of viral receptors in the National Key Laboratory of Virology, School of Life Sciences in the form of an article entitled "Close relatives of MERS-CoVin bats use ACE2 as their functional receptors" (《MERS冠状病毒在蝙蝠中的近亲病毒使用ACE2作为它们的功能性受体》). ...

AAV.CPP.16, an adeno-associated virus variant, can effectively pass through the blood-brain barrier of the central nervous system, and deliver drugs to the brain and spinal cord, which proves malignant glioma could be effectively treated in laboratory mice and cynomolgus monkeys. Recently, scholars from the Neuropsychiatric Hospital at Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University (Hubei General Hospital...

On August 3, Prof. Song Baoliang’s team from the College of Life Sciences at Wuhan University published a paper in Nature in which they revealed that the inhibition of the ASGR1 protein promotes cholesterol excretion to bile and feces, thereby reducing blood and liver lipid levels, with significant efficacy in atherosclerosis and fatty liver. The paper is entitled “Inhibition of ASGR1 decrea...

On July 22, Science published online a Perspective article entitled “Improving catalysis by moving water” by Professor Ding Mingyue from the School of Power and Mechanical Engineering and the Institute of Technological Sciences, Wuhan University. The article reviews and discusses the importance of hydrophobic strategies for efficient syngas conversion, recent research progress and future dire...

During the 2022 Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) in Nice, France, Academician Li Deren received the Brock Gold Medal Award for his landmark achievements in photogrammetry, remote sensing and geo-spatial information sciences. Li is the first Chinese to receive this honor.During the quadrennial ISPRS Congress, scholars, engineers, entrepreneurs a...

The Vega v1 model proposed by the Wuhan University - JD Trusted Artificial Intelligence Joint Research Center has topped the General Language Understanding Evaluation (GLUE) list, a prestigious global natural language processing list,  with an overall average score of 91.3, setting a new world record in this area. “Vega” makes its stunning debutThe GLUE list, jointly launched by New York Univ...