As one of the most common chronic diseases, there are nearly 400 million asthma patients worldwide, and more than 60 million asthma patients in China. In this concern, prevention and treatment of asthma is in the spotlight of public health and medical care issues. More than half of asthma patients are caused by type 2 immune response dominated by allergic-induced TH2 cells. Many immune cell components including eosinophils play important roles in allergic inflammation. The main pathological feat...

HSV-1 is an infectious pathogen that widely infects humans. Normally, it exists in the human body in a latent state., When it becomes active, it may cause many diseases such as cold sores, herpetic keratitis, neonatal herpes and encephalitis. An important feature of HSV-1 is that after infection of peripheral tissues, it enters neurons to undergo latent infection, thereby evading host immunity. When the host is immunocompromised or under stress, the latent virus reactivates to undergo recurrent ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a pulmonary infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium (Mtb). According to the latest WHO report, there were more than 10 million new cases and 1.2 million deaths worldwide in 2019. China is a country with a high burden of TB. Effective prevention and control of TB in early stage is of great importance. However, current TB diagnosis methods and efficiency of medicine effects are far from satisfactoryThe research team led by LI Jicheng from the Zhejiang University School...

Gold has long been known for its chemical inertness. However, when gold nanoparticles are combined with titanium dioxide (TiO2), they will have their attributes altered and promote a variety of catalytic reactions. It is widely accepted that the interface between gold (Au) and a TiO2 plays a critical role in heterogeneous catalysis. Little is known about the dynamic change of the Au-TiO2 interface in real time, thereby rendering it challenging to tune its intrinsic microstructure with atomi...

On March 3, Alibaba-Zhejiang University Joint Research Institute of Future Digital Health was officially launched on Zijingang Campus.The Institute will be co-directed by Prof. ZHOU Tianhua, vice president of Zhejiang University, and Mr. HUA Xianshen, vice president of Alibaba Group and head of the City Brain Lab of DAMO Academy. It will be committed to building an ecosystem featured by the in-depth industry-university-institute integration and expanding the joint research in the field of future...

[Message from the editor: Prof. XIAO Meng, featured in the newly released university video, measured the parity structure of the Higgs boson and fermion for the first time. Her solution is an important piece to the Higgs boson puzzle.] Quotes from the interview: - Although the result does not show a significant deviation of what we knew before, this is the first step towards understanding more the property of the Higgs boson in its interaction with one big category of particl...

[Message from the editor: LI Zhirong, professor of archaeology, is one of the main characters featured in the newly released university video. She led the interdisciplinary team to create the world’s first movable 3D grotto replica. This technology has been applied across China and beyond to give cultural relics a second life. Let’s explore her story of a fusion of archaeology and technology.]Humble Beginnings             Close to a d...

[Message from the editor: Zixin Yan, director of the newly released university video, shared what she found about Zhejiang University and how she came up with the theme “bigger starts here”.] Quotes from the interview: - It must take a very comprehensive system to nurture so many people who give back to the society and also do very well in life. - Zhejiang University is an institution where a person no matter where he or she comes from, get the opportunity to be “bigger than wh...

The research team led by Prof. MA Huan recently published an article entitled “Gating of hippocampal rhythms and memory by synaptic plasticity in inhibitory interneurons” in Neuron. This research uncovered gCaMKII as a mediator of LTPE-I and molecular control of experience-dependent brain rhythms, suggesting that E-I synaptic plasticity plays a gatekeeping role in tuning experience-driven E-I spike transmission, network activity and therefore mnemonic function.Neuronal activity ...

[Message from the editor: JI Juntao (’20, information security) is one of the main characters featured in the newly released university video. Once confused but guided by his mentors, JI found his true passion in life during his undergraduate studies at ZJU. Let’s explore his story of curiosity and excitement.]                                                &nb...