The 12th China Charity Awards announced its awardees of this year on September 5. The SAHZU Mobile Eye Hospital Project is highlighted with this top honor for public welfare and charity in China.For almost thirty years, the SAHZU Mobile Eye Hospital has traveled to more than ten Chinese provinces and regions, covering a cumulative mileage of hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Over 100,000 medical consultations and 10,000 sight-restoration surgeries have been carried out by the project fre...

Alpha is the “king” of a horde of mice. While meeting another mouse in the pipeline, Alpha can scare it away with merely a glance. But one day the situation changes. With unexpected courage, the little “mouse brother” pushes Alpha out of the way directly after confronting the “king” for several seconds. After experiencing the Waterloo for several successive days, Alpha becomes depressed and loses his previous dominance.This reversal was orchestrated by a cohort of brain scientists who witn...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is one of the most common and deadly hematological malignancies in the elderly, with a median age at diagnosis between 68 and 72 years. AML patients over 60 years old have worse survival outcomes than their younger counterparts. Therefore, early and accurate diagnosis and subtyping of AML are crucial for patients' treatment and prognosis. However, diagnosing and differentiating AML subtypes in bone marrow smear images is a complex and time-consuming task. Recent ...

Comparative genomic analyses of 50 primate genomes reveal crucial genetic mechanisms of primate speciation, phenotypic adaptability, and social system evolution●Researchers from Zhejiang University, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Northwest University, and Yunnan University, and Aarhus University have jointly led a series of significant new studies that are published in a special issue of the journal Science, and in papers in Nature Ecology & Evolution and Science Advances.●With 27...

Spinach has left deep childhood memories for many post-70s and post-80s generations because of the cartoon image of Popeye. Apart from appearing on our table as usual, it is truly endowed with the expectation of great power by scientists. The team of Dr. LIN Xianfeng and Prof. FAN Shunwu, from the orthopedics of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital (SRRSH), Zhejiang University School of Medicine, and the team of Prof. TANG Ruikang from the Zhejiang University Department of Chemistry, successfully...

Symptomatic treatment was commonly used for chronic diseases in the past. For example, diabetes was often treated by controlling the increase of glucose and alleviating various diabetes-induced complications with insulin. However, how to prevent diabetes has remained elusive in the scientific and medical community, and it has become a global research hotspot to find out the origin of the disease for early intervention.Recently, the team led by Prof. HUANG Hefeng from Women’s Hospital at the Zhe...

Myelin is a multiple-layered structure formed by oligodendrocytes. The ensheathment of axons by myelin plays an important role in both functional integrity and long-term survival of axons and thus regulates activity of the central nervous system (CNS). However, with ageing, some myelin sheaths exhibit myelin ageing and even myelin degeneration termed as demyelination, which is the key pathological feature of the autoimmune inflammatory diseases of CNS such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and an early...

Since November 2021, the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron has spread expeditiously all over the world and gradually superseded the previous attention-capturing the SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (VOCs). The Omicron variant harbors more than 30 mutations in the spike protein, leading to immune evasion from many therapeutic neutralizing antibodies. Therefore, it is of immense clinical significance to develop a potent neutralizing antibody against the Omicron variant.On March 28, 2022, Prof. ZHU Yongqun at ...

You might get used to the 3D glasses in the movie theatre, but have you seen an ophthalmologist wearing 3D glasses and staring at the screen in the operating theatre?On March 24, two combined cataract and vitreoretinal surgeries were conducted by Prof. FANG Xiaoyun with the help of NCvideoHD, a three-dimensional high-definition visualization system, at the Eye Center of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SAHZU).The success of the surgeries not only indicates ...

The interaction between tumor cells and cells in the microenvironment is crucial for tumor metastasis. At present, there is an in-depth understanding of paracrine signaling-mediated cell-to-cell interactions in the tumor microenvironment and its role in tumor metastasis. For example, during the progression of gastric cancer, a variety of cytokines, growth factors and extracellular matrix proteins have been reported to promote the progression and metastasis of tumor cells. Clinically, we have not...