Recently, Advanced Materials, one of the world’s top journals with an impact factor of 27.398, published the latest findings of a cooperative research on nanofibrous aerogels for salt‐resistant solar desalination. The research was conducted by Professor Deng Hongbing’s research group from the School of Resource and Environmental Sciences of Wuhan University (WHU) and Professor Ding Bin’s r...

Recently, the prestigious international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) published the research findings on phosphorothioate DNA modification in bacteria by Prof. Wang Lianrong’s team (School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University). The research reveals the target site selectivity of phosphorothioate DNA modification and its r...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the State Key Laboratory of Virology (WHU) quickly set up a research team to carry out drug research against novel coronavirus. Recently, another two research results were published in well-known SCI journals.Prof. Xu Ke’s team, in collaboration with Prof. Li Honglin’s team from School of Pharmacy(East China University of Science and Technology), has discovered t...

Professor Zhang Xianzheng’s team (College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University) has been committed to the research of applying polymer materials to bio-medicine. Based on previous accumulations, the research group recently proposed the concept of Material-Assisted Microorganisms (MAMO), which makes the complementary advantages of microbes and nanomaterials to achieve better t...

Recently, the prestigious international oncology journal Molecular Cancer (IF=15.302) published a review paper on extracellular vesicles and tumor immunity authored by the research team led by Prof. Li Dejia and Associate Prof. Sun Chengcao (School of Health Sciences, WHU) and Associate Prof. Tan Gongjun (Jinan University).The paper is entitled "Comprehensive Landscape of Extracellular Vesicle-...

This is a 2 cm long flexible gadget that weighs only 0.3 grams. It can move freely, go up and down steep slopes, carry heavy loads, adapt to all kinds of surfaces and endure extreme temperature.Recently, Professor Xue Longjian's research group (NISE-Lab) from the School of Power and Mechanical Engineering (WHU) and the Institute of Technological Sciences (WHU) has developed Geca-Robot, an extre...

Constructing a heterostructure with sonic crystals that contains valley index, Liu Zhengyou’s team achieves a valley-locked acoustic topological waveguide transport. This research, entitled Valley-locked waveguide transport in acoustic heterostructures, was published in Nature Communications. Wuhan University is the sole signatory, with doctoral graduate Wang Mudi as the first author and Prof....

​The reason for the high case fatality ratio (CFR) in critical COVID-19 patients is not completely clear. Through the screening and clinical research on 48 patients enrolled from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Zhongnan Hospital of WHU and Leishenshan Hospital, it was found that the incidence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in critically ill patients was as high as 85.4%, which may contribute t...