Scientists develop a new method to synthesize positively charged sequence-defined polymers2019-04-18A team headed by Prof. GAO Chao, director of Zhejiang University’s Institute of Polymer Science, developed a new polar-inverse strategy (PIS) for scalable synthesizing sequence-defined polymers with positively charged backbone by alternately processing Menschutkin reaction and Cu-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction.“Our research enables cost-effective large-scale production of ... READ MORE |
Scientists discover a 3D structure of PTH1R2019-04-17Scientists in China and the US report a high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structure (3.0Å) of the human parathyroid hormone type 1 receptor (PTH1R) bound to a long-acting parathyroid hormone (PTH) analog and the stimulatory G protein. The study, published in Science on April 12, provides valuable insights into structural basis and dynamics of PTH binding and long-term ac... READ MORE |
Lose less water without affecting carbon fixation in plants? Recent study offers a novel approach2019-04-17Stomata are pores in the leaf epidermis that play a crucial role in plants. They allow CO2 uptake for photosynthetic carbon assimilation at the expense of water loss via transpiration. Efforts to improve plant water use efficiency (WUE) have focused on reducing stomatal density, despite its implicit penalty in carbon assimilation. Approaches to reducing transpiration without incurring a ... READ MORE |
CAB delegation visits Pakistan2019-04-16From April 7-10, Prof. CHEN Xuexin, dean of the College of Agriculture and Biotechnology (CAB) led a delegation to Pakistan. An MOU signing ceremony between ZJU and University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan's top agricultural university was held, which is witnessed by H.E. Mr. Yao Jing, China's Ambassador to Pakistan, and H.E. Dr. Syed Safdar Ali Shah, Director-General (CPEC... READ MORE |
The key role of RAB2 in autophagic structures identified2019-04-16Autophagy is a lysosomal degradative pathway essential to development and homeostasis. The deregulation of autophagy is tightly associated with a variety of human diseases. Studies have shown that the biogenesis of autophagosomes needs membranes from multiple sources, including ER, the Golgi network, mitochondria, the endosomes and ER-Golgi intermediate. It remains elusive as to how the ... READ MORE |
QS Stars rates School of Management as a 5 Stars institution2019-04-15Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the world’s largest, international higher education network, made an official announcement that ZJU's School of Management was rated as a 5 Stars institution through rigorous and independent data collection and analysis of performance metrics as set out in the QS StarsTM methodology. It is another accreditation that the School of Management has r... READ MORE |
From the evolution of MCR-4 to the functional unification of the MCR family2019-04-15The research team led by FENG Youjun at the School of Medicine has made major breakthroughs in research into the mechanism behind mobile colistin resistance (MCR) recently. Their findings were published in two articles in Advanced Science on April 3, 2019.Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and social develo... READ MORE |
ZJU to offer two majors in robotics engineering and AI，open Turing Class this year2019-04-11New majors will fill educational gap and meet growing workforce needs.China will launch around 400 programs related to big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics in universities in 2019, China’s Ministry of Education announced recently. From this fall, Zhejiang University will offer two new undergraduate programs in robotics engineering and AI, which will meet a growing workforce need fo... READ MORE |
An integrated microfludic system for PET tracers synthesis invented in ZJU2019-04-10Radioactive tracers are needed during the Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan, a nuclear medicine functional imaging technique. Dependent on what to detect, different ligands are used for different imaging purposes, including the measurement of glucose metabolic rate, the quantification of cardiac perfusion or the determination of gene expression. Up to date, there are more than 100 trace... READ MORE |
Hope for treating genetic disorders via genetic compensation response2019-04-09A genetic compensation mechanism discovered in zebrafish could open up new prospects in the treatment of genetic disorders, a recent study suggests.The study by Prof. CHEN Jun from the College of Life Sciences and Prof. PENG Jinrong from the College of Animal Sciences, “PTC-bearing mRNA elicits a genetic compensation response via Upf3a and COMPASS components,” appeared in Nature.F... READ MORE |
ZJU researchers make a major breakthrough in transcranial ultrasound imaging2019-04-08Recently, the research team led by ZHENG Yinfei, an associate professor in the Institute of Medical and Health Information Engineering, Zhejiang University, proposed a novel imaging technology based on ultrasound materials and a plane wave imaging method—transcranial ultrasound imaging. This technology breaks through the “no-go zone” in cranial imaging and opens the door to human transcranial ul... READ MORE |
A taste of Qingming festival at ZJU2019-04-07Last Friday (April 5) is the Qingming Festival in China. This is a traditional Chinese holiday with a history of more than 2500 years. Chinese people traditionally visit ancestral tombs and clean the gravesites on this day. Another Qingming ritual is to eat Qingtuan, which is made of glutinous rice mixed with Chinese mugwort or barley grass.Owing to the color of the plant, tradition... READ MORE |
Researchers at ZJU and the University of Sydney propose record-breaking text-to-image-to-text framework2019-04-06The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) has opened new frontier.Researchers from Zhejiang University and the University of Sydney have proposed a novel global-local attentive and semantic-preserving text-to-image-to-text framework. This framework, called MirrorGAN, exploits the idea of learning text-to-image generation by redescription. It has improved semantic consistency between the text descri... READ MORE |
School of Medicine holds graduation ceremony for MBBS Class of 20192019-04-04Last week, ZJU's School of Medicine held a graduation ceremony for the Medical Bachelor & Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) Class of 2019. Altogether 65 international students celebrate their graduation in the company of friends, family, and faculty and staff from the University.During the ceremony, Vice President HE Lianzhen congratulated the students on their achievements. “There is ... READ MORE |