[Editor’s note: At the 8th China International College Students’ ‘Internet+’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, Zhejiang University clinched a record-high 13 gold medals. Among them, the “Where: Your Digital Twin Guardian” team won the gold medal in the Undergraduate Creativity Category and participated in the Global Finals as the only Undergraduate Creativity Category team. The “Vision Tech—A Digitalized Reconstruction of Braille Information for the Underlying Logic”...

Blocking cell-cycle checkpoints by pharmacologic or genetic disruption of checkpoint kinase activities can force cell-cycle progression even in the presence of damaged DNA, and represents a promising antitumor therapeutic strategy. Indeed, potent inhibitors for several cell-cycle checkpoint kinases including ATR, ATM, CHK1, CHK2, and WEE1 are clinically evaluated. Preclinical studies, however, reveal that the therapeutic efficacy of checkpoint kinase inhibition is context-sensitive and depends o...

Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction driven by a dysregulated host response, which affects approximately 50 million individuals and causes over 11 million fatalities worldwide annually. Sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy (SICM) is a common and important cause of death in patients with sepsis. Patients usually display the reduced ejection fraction, abnormal ventricular dilatation, poor response to fluid therapy and cardiovascular active agents. Notably, patients with SICM have a transient an...

To the ZJU community and our international friends, Warmest greetings from the Office of Global Engagement for a Happy Chinese New Year!  2023 is the year of the Rabbit based on the Chinese zodiac, starting from Jan. 22, 2023 (Chinese New Year) and lasting to Feb. 9, 2024. As one of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals, the rabbit is not only cute, but also holds many interesting implications. For Chinese people, the rabbit represents hope, peace, life and longevity.  In ancient...

[Editor’s Note: As China continues to optimize its COVID-19 response measures and relax requirements for cross-region travel, the country's 40-day Spring Festival travel rush has begun. What measures should we take to protect ourselves and reduce the risk of severe COVID-19 symptoms during the period? What essential tips should we follow to protect the elderly? Doctors from the Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine were interviewed by CGTN to give their advi...

Recently, the research team led by MO Xiaorong at the Zhejiang University College of Life Sciences published an article titled “A novel protein domain is important for photosystem II complex assembly and photoautotrophic growth in angiosperms” in the journal Molecular Plant. They discovered a novel protein domain termed as the CLS (chlorotic lethal seedling) domain in TROL2, a second-type thylakoid rhodanese-like (TROL) protein in seed plant genomes. They identified the crucial role ...

The Digital Agriculture Bootcamp was co-organized by Zhejiang University and FAO. The main purpose of our digital agriculture bootcamp is to enhance the digital agriculture innovation and entrepreneurship ability of young leaders, to share the dividends of high-quality development through the integration of the whole industrial chain of digital enabling agriculture through innovative digital agriculture solutions and business models, to deal with the leap-forward battle of insufficient agricultu...

After two months’ tensive schedule, the pitch event of Global AgriInno Challenge 2022 was finally successfully held in the Rome time afternoon of 16 December via Zoom.Global AgriInno Challenge 2022 is co-organized by FAO, Zhejiang University and Hangzhou Municipal People's Government. It is undertaken by Talent Office of Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, Hangzhou Agricultural and Rural Bureau, Jiande Municipal People's Government and Institute of Food Economy and Agrocommercial Manage...

The New Cornerstone Investigator Program, an independent non-profit funding initiative guided by scientists, funded by Tencent and supervised by the China Association for Science and Technology, unveiled its first batch of new cornerstone investigators on January 13. The Program adopts a forward-thinking approach to encouraging basic research spearheaded by leading scientists. Tencent pledges to provide 10 billion RMB in 10 years for a select few scientists. Those working in the program’s exper...

The transient receptor potential vanilloid (TRPV1) ion channel is a polymodal nociceptor broadly expressed in sensory neurons involved in pain sensation, thereby playing an essential role in analgesia. The outer pore domain of TRPV1 is essential for regulation of this channel by temperature, protons and other toxin peptides, so rationally engineering modulators targeting the outer pore of TRPV1 is a potential strategy for regulating pain responses.On January 3, YANG Fan at the Zhejiang Univ...