On February 23th, PNAS published online the research paper revealing the molecular mechanism that couples histone H2B ubiquitination to DNA replication and repair by the research group of Prof. Chen Xuefeng from the Department of Genetics in the College of Life Sciences of Wuhan University (WHU) and Hubei Key Laboratory of Cell Homeostasis. The article was entitled RPA-mediated recruitment of B...

On Feb. 5th, Science published online the latest findings by the team of Professor Ding Mingyue from WHU’s Institute of Technological Sciences on catalyzing and converting syngas. The research focused on the discovery of a new type of FeMn@Si catalyst, which could produce olefins with high selectivity and high yield from syngas by suppressing CO2 by-products.An expert review entitled Designing...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the seasonal influenza virus are both respiratory viruses. While the former has posed a great threat to human life and health, the latter is prevalent throughout the year. At present, the northern hemisphere is undergoing the flu season so that human beings are confronted with the dual threat of the new coronavirus and the inf...

The Journal of the American Chemical Society recently published the latest findings of Prof. Wang Cheng's team from the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, which reveals three-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (COFs) can be constructed from flexible building blocks.This paper is entitled A Crystalline Three-dimensional Covalent Organic Framework with Flexible B...

Science Advances recently published an article entitled Abnormal Neocortex Arealization and Sotos-like Syndrome-associated Behavior in Setd2 Mutant Mice, which was written collectively by the research teams of Zhou Yan at the Frontier Science Center for Immunology and Metabolism and Wu Min from the Medical Research Institute at the School of Medicine of Wuhan University (WHU).The paper’s first...

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...