On March 1, Nature Communications published online the latest findings of Prof. Wang Cheng’s team from the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University (WHU). The research synthesized a series of 2D porphyrin-based covalent organic frameworks with the incorporation of different transition metals and realized tuning photocatalytic hydrogen evolution. The paper is entitled Rati...

On February 18, at the Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Conference, a study by Professor Xiong Bin from the Central South Hospital of Wuhan University was awarded the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of Hubei Province in 2020. The study broke through the technical barrier of circulating tumor cell detection, and can provide technical support for accur...

The preservation time of donor lungs after isolation has been prolonged from 6 hours to 12 hours, gaining valuable time for patient treatment. On Feb. 18th, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University won the first prize of the 2020 Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award at the Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Innovation Conference for its research on a major key problem in lung trans...

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...