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...

Recently, the Journal of Economic Theory, a top international journal in the field of theoretical economics, published a paper entitled "Robust perfect equilibrium in large games" by SUN Xiang, who is a professor from the School of Economics and Management at Wuhan University. In this paper, Sun and co-authors introduce a new equilibrium concept, "robust perfect equilibrium", for non-coopera...

Recently, the Journal of Economic Theory, a top-ranking international journal in the field of theoretical economics, published a paper entitled "Cheating and compensation in price-fixing cartels" by Jihwan Do, who is an assistant professor from the School of Economics and Management, WHU.This paper provides a theoretical explanation of “cheating and compensation on-path of play” using a canon...

​The Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games, during which multiple events were held outdoors with meteorological field conditions playing a significant role, have come to an end. The two main competition zones, Yanqing District of Beijing and Chongli District of Zhangjiakou, are both mountainous areas with complex and changeable weather conditions, which require refined air observation data. Ma Yin...

On February 24, Journal of Archaeological Science, a top international archaeological journal, published online the latest findings cooperatively made by several institutions, including School of History, Wuhan University, the Institute of Yangtze River Civilization Archaeology, Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Nanjing Normal University, etc. The paper is entitled High-preci...