The plenary session of International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector Study Group 16 (ITU-T SG 16) was sucessfully held online from April 19th to 30th. During the meeting, Zhejiang University took the lead, partnered with China Telecom and Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute of Republic of Korea , to propose a new standardization project titled Requirements and Framework for Feature-based Distributed Intelligent Systems. Through deliberate discus...

[Message from the editor: May 16 marks the 31st National Day for Helping the Disabled. The Arms of Seven Men, a documentary film directed by Prof. JIN Xingzheng at the Zhejiang University College of Media and International Culture, was released nationwide on May 15. Seven artists from all over the country, who lost their arms at different ages for one reason or another, became accomplished calligraphers and painters against overwhelming odds. To give back to the society, they sold their works an...

If you feel that two gold rings are old-fashioned, you can ask a goldsmith to re-make a pair of rings by melting the old ones under high temperature. However, you are bothered by a twinge of regret after the rings are melted into liquid. Is it possible to get back the two original gold rings?The answer is self-evident. Even if the remade gold rings look exactly identical to the former ones in appearance, corresponding internal components have been disrupted and re-distributed randomly.For ordina...

Recently, Professor LIN Tao and Qiushi Distinguished Professor YING Yibin at the Zhejiang University College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science engaged in collaborative research with other scholars from the United States, Brazil and China. Their findings were published in a cover article entitled “Double cropping and cropland expansion boost grain production in Brazil” in the journal Nature Food. This study reveals two major strategies for grain boom in Brazil—double cro...

Chromosomal rearrangements widely occur in multiple human cancers, and fusion proteins produced from the rearrangements are well-defined oncogenic drivers that could be attractive targets for cancer treatment. Recently, a research team led by Prof. Hua Naranmandura and Prof. Chih-Hung Hsu from the Zhejiang University School of Medicine for the first-time revealed that Hyperthermia could destabilize fusion oncoproteins, opening a possibility for the application of Hyperthermia on t...

Pharmaceutical researchers have developed a new technique that uses a patch with microneedles to perform catalyzed reactions for generating anticancer therapeutics directly inside tumors. Early laboratory tests on mice show it potentiates the effectiveness of drugs and reduces toxicity. The technique was developed by researchers at Zhejiang University, Fuzhou University and the University of California, Los Angeles.“This is a proof of concept, but we’ve demonstrated there is now a new tool for...

Depression is commonly associated with cognitive deficits in memory and emotions like sadness. This association alone, however, neglects the intense difference in how subjects perceive others and the world in this mental state. Depressed subjects often perceive their environment in an unsharp and blurry way. That, in turn, affects our emotion, cognition and behavior since we act and think according to the way we perceive. The research teams of SONG Xuemei at the Zhejiang University School of Med...

On May 10, Asia Pacific Forum on Global Health-Through and Beyond the Pandemic was held online and offline in Hangzhou, bringing together physicians, researchers, global health experts, educators, students from 29 universities in 13 countries and regions to explore how higher medical education should be better prepared for future medical challenges in the post-pandemic era. As an event under the framework of Zhejiang University’s Z4G Action Plan, the Forum aimed to make contributions to the cal...

Tumor is one of the major hazards for human health and life. With the cross-disciplinary fusion of immunology and cell biology, tumor immunotherapy technology has become an important means of anti-tumor treatment.Programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) is constitutively expressed on the surface of cancer cells. The interaction between PD-L1 and its receptor, programmed death protein-1 (PD-1), which is mainly expressed on the surface of T cells, results in cancer cell evasion from immune surveillance. ...

Recently, the microfluidic modular integrated synthesis system for new PET molecular imaging probes, developed by the research team headed by Prof. ZHANG Hong at the Zhejiang University College of Biomedical Engineering & Instrument Science, garnered a gold medal at the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva (IEIG). Molecular imaging is the key to improving the therapy and prognosis of major human diseases. Positron emission tomography (PET), a type of nuclear m...