Mobilized resistance to colistin is evolving rapidly and its global dissemination poses a severe hazard to human health and safety. Transferable colistin resistance gene, mcr-3, first identified in Shandong, China, has already been found in several countries in multidrug-resistant human infections. Antimicrobial resistance: global report on surveillance 2014 issued by WHO points out that over 1 million patients died of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) all over the world in 2013. A team led by...

Conor, one of the nine international students who were admitted into the first ever Renewable Energy Summer School, has enjoyed his time at ZJU working with the researchers here."I came to this program to do research but also to learn a little bit about China. I've really enjoyed that. Different people in my lab are incredibly inclusive and we've done a lot of good research together, which is important to me," said Connor from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Organized by ZJU...

The 1st Tokyo International Choir Competition was held on July 25-29, 2018. This event is to contribute to culture through the popularization and promotion of choral music. Additionally, it also offers an execellent stage for international exchange through choirs. ZJU’s Wenqin Chorus, as the only participant from the Chinese mainland, competed with 13 world-class choruses from 13 countries and regions, including Japan, Russia, Hong Kong and the Czech Republic, in the Youth Choir category. ...

The research team, led by Prof. XU Jianming with the College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, reveals the functional organization in soil metagenomes by generating a genetic correlation network based on genes derived from metagenomes of forest soils. The findings are published in the July 25 issue of the ISME Journal.Microorganisms operate at the heart of biological characteristics, biogeochemical processes, and ecology of soils. A gram of soil contains an average of ...

The First ZHITU Symposium on Advances in Civil Engineering was held in the College of Civil Engineering and Architecture (CCEA), ZJU on July 12-14.ZHITU stands for the union of five universities, namely, ZJU, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (HK PolyU), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the University of Tokyo (UoT) and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST). ZHITU, ‘智途’ in Chinese, also means ‘a smart path for the future’.Covering topics on structures,...

The research team led by WANG Xiaojian, a professor of immunology in the School of Medicine, worked together with the research team led by SUN Jihong from the Department of Radiology in the Sir Run Shaw Shaw Hospital to discover the function of downregulated NDR1 protein kinase in inhibiting innate immune response by initiating an miR146a-STAT1 feedback loop. The findings are published online in the July 17 issue of the journal of Nature Communications.Interferon (IFN)-stimulated genes (ISG...

The research team headed by WANG Fangwei, a professor with Life Sciences Institute and Innovation Center for Cell Signaling Network at Zhejiang University, published an article entitled “WAC Promotes Polo-like Kinase 1 Activation for Timely Mitotic Entry” in the July 17 issue of the journal of Cell Reports.Cell division is the process by which a parent cell divides into two or more daughter cells. It usually occurs as part of a larger cell cycle. Actively dividing eukaryote cells pass through ...

In a laboratory in the Institute of Translational Medicine, Zhejiang University, scientists are attempting to expose a mouse with breast cancer to near-infrared laser radiation. 3 minutes later, the “drug box” in the tumor area is then opened, thereby allowing anti-tumor drug to penetrate into the deep tissue evenly. Four hours later, cancer cells are eradicated.The research team, headed by ZHOU Min with the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University and the Institute of Translatio...

Competing against more than 500 teams from around the world, Team Designer from ZJU’s Incas-lab (Intelligent Computing and Systems Laboratory) claimed a championship spotearlier this month in the finals of the 2018 Xunlei Blockchain Application Global Challenge.As the only team that involves undergraduates, Designer consists of team coach Dr. CHEN Jianhai, team leader and PhD student WANG Bei, and three sophomores XU Xiaowen, LI Jueyu and FU Bo from ZJU’s College of Computer Science and T...

XIE Zhenye, a postgraduate student of the Department of Physical Education, Zhejiang University, won gold in the men’s 200m event with a time of 20.25 seconds on the first day of competition at the inaugural Athletics World Cup Saturday in London.The 24-year-old sprinter beat South Africa’s Luxolo Adams (20.45 seconds) and American Ameer Webb (20.51 seconds). The two-day event features eight of the top countries competing in all distances from 100- to 1,500-meter, plus eight field events. Each...