Chinese researchers have developed a novel method to efficiently engineer natural killer (NK) cells for cancer immunotherapy.
Researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, together with their collaborators, uncovered the molecular innovation that led to the origin of Type V CRISPR-Cas immune systems.
Researchers led by Prof. GAO Caixia from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology and Prof. QIU Jinlong from the Institute of Microbiology developed a pioneering system that enables rapid and scalable directed evolution of diverse genes directly in plant cells.
Convergent evolution—where distinct species independently evolve similar traits or functions, such as the wings of birds and bats—has long fascinated biologists. Now, a research team led by Prof. ZOU Zhengting from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has introduced a deep learning-based method to unravel the complex molecular mechanisms driving this phenomenon.
Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Freie Universität Berlin showed that dance-following bees combine the dance vector with their cognitive memory of landmarks, and the follower bees form an expectation of the landscape features after learning the information of waggle dances.
A reanalysis of a one-million-year-old human skull found in China is challenging the established timeline of human evolution, and suggests a new branch of the human family tree, as well as a possible link to the mysterious Denisovans.
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