The research team led by JI Junfang from the Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, published an article entitled “miR-192-5p silencing by genetic aberrations is a key event in hepatocellular carcinomas with cancer stem cell features” in the December 7 issue of Cancer Research. It opens up a feasible and effective approach to targeting hepatocellular carcinomas with cancer stem cell features.Primary liver cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide and approximate...

Essential Science Indicators (ESI) reveals the latest statistics about highly Cited Papers. Among them was Urban growth dilemmas and solutions in China: Looking forward to 2030, an article penned by Prof. WU Yuzhe and his PhD student LUO Jiaojiao,School of Public Affairs.This article was published in Habitat International in 2016. In the article, WU Yuzhe et al. asserts that China’s urbanization and industrialization is replacing large amounts of farmland, prompted by relevant land finance...

A scroll is unfolded bit by bit on the screen and Portrait of a Flower-wearing Maid—a famous painting in ancient China—is unveiled in front of an audience. A maid attired in a Tang Dynasty costume walks out of the painting, composed and graceful.  Modern technology brings to life “dormant” cultural relics ranging from static objects to dynamic images like a magic wand. Four screens display four different stories in a synchronized image-on-image manner. The audience can savor a holistic vi...

Recently, the research team led by Prof. LIU Xu and Prof. KUANG Cuifang from the College of Optical Science and Engineering put forward a novel method of performing 3D multi-color live-cell super-resolution volume imaging termed as multi-angle interference microscopy (MAIM), thus offering a powerful device for researches intothe subcellular dynamics of mitochondria and microtubule architectures during cell migration. This finding is published in the November 16 issue of Nature Communications.Ins...

At the annual meeting of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) on November 5 in Baltimore, Prof. XU Jianming from the College of Environmental and Resource Sciences was named a Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy.Established in 1907, ASA is the most influential professional society of crop and soil scientists, educators and practitioners who work to discovery and apply agronomic solutions to feed and sustain the world. Being designated a fellow is among the society’s top ...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) released the IEEE Fellows Class of 2019 on Nov. 21. Two professors from Zhejiang University—Prof. WU Zhaohui and Prof. CHEN Jiming—were elected to be IEEE fellows for contributions to intelligent service computing and for contributions to resource allocation and optimization in wireless sensor networks respectively.IEEE, an association dedicated to advancing innovation and technological excellence for the benefit of humanity, is t...

The research team headed by CHEN Baohui from Zhejiang University School of Medicine published an article entitled “Efficient labeling and imaging of protein-coding genes in living cells using CRISPR-Ta” in the November 29 issue of Nature Communications. Their studies open up a new technology for labeling non-repetitive genomic elements and display an efficient, easy, and scalable DNA tagging system in living human cells, thus laying a solid foundation for exploring the connection bet...

Michael W. Young, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2017 and American biologist and geneticist, visited Zhejiang University (ZJU) on Dec. 4, as part of the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative (NPII) 2018 in China.Professor Young gave a lecture entitled “Genes that control sleep and circadian rhythms”, which attracted more than 400 students and scholars in Qiushi Lecture Hall. In the seminar, he elucidated the function of three important genes—Period, Timeless and Double-time genes in the...

ZHENG Qiang, deputy secretary of the CPC Zhejiang University Committee, led the ZJU Graduate Art Troupe and a delegation of ZJU postgraduate students to visit Moscow State University (MSU), Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE) and Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) on Nov. 20-23.MSU is the highest-ranked and largest university in Russia. ZHENG Qiang met with Yuri A. Mazei, Vice-re...

Recently, ZHAO Bo from the College of Information Science & Electronic Engineering published a paper entitled “A Low-Power Compact IEEE802.15.6 Compatible Human Body Communication Transceiver with Digital Sigma—Delta IIR Mask Shaping” in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. ZHAO Bo is the leading author of this paper.  The IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits publishes papers each month in the broad area of solid-state circuits with particular emphasis on transistor-level de...