WUHAN, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese scientists have identified a liver-secreted protein in mice that stimulates the fat formation in other organ and exacerbates obesity, a finding which will provide new strategies for treating obesity and related disorders.Researchers from the Wuhan University based in China's Hubei Province observed in experiments that when mice displayed less lipid formation in...

On March 6, 2019, Science Advances published online the latest research findings of Professor Du Haining’s research group on posttranslational modification and regulation of protein activity and function. This research reveals how the methylated modification of methyltransferase G9a exerts on Plk1, then regulates its kinase activity as well as the function that methylated modification exerts i...

On February 18th, Nature Nanotechnology, the international authoritative journal with an impact factor of 37, published online a paper of Professor Cao Yuliang's team from School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University. This paper introduces the team’s research prospect on the combination of battery materials technology research and its application.​This paper is entitled Bridgi...

On December 3rd, 2018, Prof. Song Baoliang’s team from College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University published online their newest research results in Nature Communications (Impact Factor/IF=12.353). They discovered the potent HMG-CoA reductase (HMGCR) degrader Cmpd 81 that eliminates statin-induced reductase accumulation and lowers cholesterol.Postdoctoral researchers Jiang Shiyou and Tang Jingj...

​The team of Professor Xiang Jiuyu from the School of Marxism, Wuhan University, has published an original research paper in the SSCI international academic journalAnnals of General Psychiatry, which is affiliated to Springer Nature. The paper is entitled Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the empathy quotient among Chinese minority college students.The paper points out that whe...

On June 7th, 2018 EDT, Science publisheda research article about Song Baoliang team’s latest research results. Professor Song is the dean of College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University and director of Hubei Province’s key laboratory of cell homeostasis.The article is entitled A LIMA1 variant promotes low plasma LDL-cholesterol and decreases intestinal cholesterol absorption. Song and Ma Yitong...

The School of Economics and Management of Wuhan University has signed a agreement with HKEX Group (Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited) to launch the public welfare project which will offer high quality courses focusing on major trends of international capital market.The project which is sponsored by the University Alumni enterprise Prudence Investment Management (Hong Kong) Limited, aims ...

WHU has seen, in Wuhan, China, the official launch of its first national development project of major scientific research instrument, namely the time and space-crossing in situ / real-time monitoring and regulating instrument for film growth defects. The project will be conducive to world-class film growth study in China and leapfrog development for China’s advanced equipment.  It is the only ...

​Academician Xu Hongxing’s research team made another breakthrough on surface plasmonic sensors, realizing the probing of dimensional changes in nanostructure gap distance with sub-picometer differential resolution. Nature Communications published the achievement in an article titled Probing of sub-picometer vertical differential resolutions using cavity plasmons.The research was mainly condu...

Recently, Nature Communications, an international leading journal published the latest findings by Prof. Li Zhen’s research group from the School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University. This research not only delves deeper in the internal mechanism of purely organic room temperature phosphorescence (in short of RTP) luminogens, but also realizes the practical application of such...