On January 11, an overview entitled “Recent Advances and Future Perspectives in Cotton Research” is published online in Annual Review of Plant Biology, an authoritative botanical periodical. The paper is written by Zhu Yuxian, Huang Gai, Chen Xiaoya and Huang Jinquan. Zhu Yuxian is academician and Huang Gai is a doctoral student at the Institute for Advanced Studies of WHU. Huang also works...

Recently, Journal of Economic Theory, an international top-ranking journal in the field of theoretical economics, publishes a paper entitled "The Individualistic Foundation of Equilibrium Distribution" by Sun Xiang, who is a distinguished researcher from the school of Economics and Management, WHU. In this paper, Sun analyses the relationship between individualistic equilibrium at the micro lev...

On December 3, the international academic journal Nature Communications published online an article entitled DNA-PK Deficiency Potentiates cGAS-Mediated Antiviral Innate Immunity, which is the latest finding of Prof. Zhang Junjie’s team (Frontier Science Center for Immunology and Metabolism, Medical Research Institute, Wuhan University School of Medicine). Their research elucidates the import...

On November 30, Nature Communications (IF: 12.131) published online the latest research findings by Professor Zhong Bo’s research group from the Medical Research Institute/College of Life Sciences, and the Frontier Science Center for Immunology and Metabolism, Wuhan University. The article describes the important function and mechanism of chemokines CCL7 recruiting cDC1 to promote antitumor i...

On November 11, Nature published a paper by Prof. Song Baoliang’s team from WHU School of Life Sciences which reveals a new regulatory mechanism between feeding and cholesterol biosynthesis. This study offers a glance into the law of cholesterol metabolism in the human body and lays a foundation for the treatment of metabolic diseases, including hyperlipidaemia, obesity, liver steatosis and di...

The central conference on work related to overall law-based governance was held in Beijing from 16 to 18 November. General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered a key speech. Feng Guo, dean of Wuhan University’s School of Law, attended the conference as a representative of colleges and universities and was interviewed by CCTV.Combining history with reality, domestic with international relations, and...

Recently, Professor Guo Xibao from School of Economics and Management of Wuhan University won the fifth Liu Shibai Award in Economics, which was granted for his book A Research On Transformation Of Economic Structures Towards High-Quality Development. It was another national prize in economics won by Professor Guo Xibao this year after he won the Award for Outstanding Scientific Research Achie...

Recently, significant progress was made on polyketide synthase (PKS) biosynthesis by Professor Sun Yuhui’s research group from the team of CAS member Deng Zixin at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University (WHU). The research revealed that double bond reduction of the polyketide chain in PKS domain could be achieved by a novel cross-module “borrowing” method, which had been pu...