(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...

On April 18th, Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy (IF = 18.187), a subjournal of Nature, published online a paper entitled Visual function restoration with a highly sensitive and fast Channelrhodopsin in blind mice, by ophthalmology professor Yin Shen from Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University who is the corresponding author.The animal experiments of this study demonstrated that the use of ...

Early on March 3, Beijing time, the latest issue of the world's top academic  journal Nature  (Impact Factor 49.962) published online  the research paper FSH Blockade Improves Cognition in Mice with Alzheimer's Disease(AD) by Xiong Jing, deputy chief physician of the Department of Neurology of Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University. The research findings are the first in the world to reveal that f...