Unraveling correlation of Cd induced metabolic toxicity and diabetes
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2022-02-17
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Diabetes has become the leading metabolic disease threatening human health. Meanwhile, the association between exposure to harmful environmental factors and the occurrence of diabetes has always been a hot spot of public health and environmental medicine.A recent study conducted by Dr. ZHOU Zhou’s lab at the Department of Environmental Medicine, the Zhejiang University School of Medicine elucidated the Cd perturbed metabolomic signature in pancreatic beta cells and human urine. The origina...
Turn brittle mineral into plastic substitute
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2022-02-16
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Plastics bring much convenience to human life by virtue of their flexibility, plasticity, lightness and cheapness, but they also pose a considerable threat to the natural environment owing to their non-degradable bonds that lead to “white pollution”. In recent years, an increasing number of researchers have started to seek new “plastics” as an alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics.The research findings by Prof. LIU Zhaoming and Prof. TANG Ruikang from the Department o...
Dialogue@ZJU: With Prof. WEN Wu from the International Campus
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2022-02-15
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【Message from the editor: In the previous issues, Dr. SHAO Fangwei and Dr. LIU Zuozhu from ZJUI, and Dr. CHEN Di from ZJE shared their research and teaching at the International Campus. Today, let’s meet Prof. WEN Wu, who joined the Zhejiang University International Business School (ZIBS) as a full-time professor in 2020. He is also a doctoral supervisor of the College of Computer Science and Technology of Zhejiang University and the Secretary-General of the Internatio...
Solar housing project structured by ZJUers lands in the Winter Olympic City Zhangjiakou
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2022-02-12
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What comes to you when talking about the 2022 Winter Olympics? Fast and fierce actions on the slopes? The cute panda mascot Bing Dwen Dwen? The world has gone warm over the Games since its opening. Want to know how ZJUers contributed to the Games? Let’s turn the spotlight on the Solar House, a Demonstration Project in the host city Zhangjiakou jointly designed and built by an international team, Y-Team composed of students and faculty members from the Zhejiang University-University of Illinois ...
Genetic basis for tissue-specific DNA methylation patterns in plants
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2022-02-11
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How does a cell develop into various types of tissues and organs with the same set of genome? Epigenetic modification patterns play a vital role in these processing. DNA methylation, a type of stably inheritable epigenetic modification, which is ubiquitous and conserved in both animals and plants, are essential for gene regulation, transposon silencing and gene imprinting. However, how DNA methylation patterns are regulated has remained obscure in the field of epigenetics.Recently, Assistant Pro...
ZJU develops cool technology for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics
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2022-02-10
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Surfing and snowboarding have a lot in common in speed, jumping and spinning. Scientific research also reveals that their actual mechanism is also very similar.Based on these similarities, the Center for Chinese Water Sports Development at Zhejiang University, in partnership with Zhejiang University’s Power Machinery & Vehicular Engineering Institute and Hangzhou Dianzi University, develops the cool technology to help the national snowboarding team brace for the Beijing 2022 Winter Oly...
ZJU scientists contribute their part to green and clean Winter Olympics (II)
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2022-02-09
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[Editor’s Note: the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was officially opened on February 4. In addition to the crystal white world of ice and snow, the Beijing 2022 is featured by another bright color—green, the symbol of environmental protection. The Games embodies the concept of “greenness” in every dimension, such as ecology, buildings and transportation. This is Part II of a two-part story, showcasing how ZJU scientists have contributed to a “green and clean” Winter Olympics.] A new lida...
ZJU scientists contribute their part to green and clean Winter Olympics (I)
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2022-02-08
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[Editor’s Note: the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was officially opened on February 4. In addition to the crystal white world of ice and snow, the Beijing 2022 is featured by another bright color—green, the symbol of environmental protection. The Games embodies the concept of “greenness” in every dimension, such as ecology, buildings and transportation. This is the first installment of a two-part story, showcasing how ZJU scientists have contributed to a “clean and green” Winter Olympics.]Gr...
Scientists identify HMCES as a novel therapeutic target against leukemia
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2022-02-06
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Long-term hematopoietic stem cells (LT-HSCs) generate and maintain lifelong blood cell production through their self-renewal and multi-lineage capacity. In the steady state, this rare population of adult stem cells is quiescent, resulting in decreased reactive oxygen species (ROS) and thereby preserving genome integrity. Driving the quiescent HSCs into cycling due to physiological stress such as infection or chronic blood loss leads to a rapid increase in the levels of oxidative DNA damage, incl...
Scientists craft a new world with an ultra-fast laser “burin”
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2022-02-03
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Laser is dubbed as “the fastest burin”, “the most precise ruler” and “the brightest light”. Since the invention of the first laser in the early 1960s, it has been widely used in various aspects of our lives. Laser is recognized as one of the four greatest human inventions in the 20th century. Usually, it can be divided into two types: continuous laser and pulsed laser. In the 1980s, scientists invented a peculiar ultra-short pulsed laser—femtosecond laser, which is featured by its ult...