The knee joint is the largest and most complex weight-bearing joint in the human body that enables us to stand and carry out our daily tasks. How much do you know your knee? Human body is the most perfect masterpiece of nature, and the knee joint inside human body has a delicate ultrathin layer of osteochondral interface between SOFT cartilage and HARD subchondral bone. In this interface, the sophisticated structures and excellent force transfer properties allow the knee to resist fatigue damage...

The crosstalk between immune cells and tumor cells within tumor microenvironment crucially determines the fate of tumor progression and metastasis. Cancer immunotherapy has brought unprecedented success in clinical benefits for multiple types of cancer by reinvigorating the functions of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes. However, the majority of patients do not benefit from immunotherapies because of the accumulation of immunosuppressive tumor-infiltrating myeloid cells (TIMs). Emerging evidence in...

On the morning of March 30, the commencement and degree conferral ceremony for postgraduates in the Class of 2022 was held in the hybrid format. President WU Zhaohui sent his hearty congratulations to the graduating Class of 2022 on behalf of the University. “Like the Chinese youths a century ago, today’s youths also shoulder great responsibilities,” he said, inspiring them to pursue quintessential knowledge which knows no bounds, break new ground, and promote the development o...

Curious about future cities in science fiction movies? Eager to address digital divide in the upcoming smart city? Want to know how many trees you need to plant to neutralize your carbon emissions in a year? Heads up! Keys to these interesting questions are hidden in ZJU’s Global Summer School! As part of Z4G, Zhejiang University’s sustainability action plan, the two-week Summer School is launched to inspire the young students to electrify the global community in response to the UN 2030 Agenda...

“The higher education community can play a key role in addressing global challenges and advancing the process of sustainable development,” Vice President HE Lianzhen told the webinar, which was held by the International Association of Universities (IAU) and Higher Education Teaching & Learning Association (HETL) on March 29.Prof. He shared ZJU’s sustainability action plan (Z4G) and her insights into the role of higher education leadership in building a more sustainable community.Universit...

Maize is one of the world’s top three staple foods and the most important forage crop. China has a planting acreage of approximately 600 million mu (equal to 40 million hectares), ranking first in the world. On January 21, 2020, China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs granted Safety Certificates of Agricultural GMO for 192 plant varieties.Ruifeng 125, an insect-resistant transgenic maize developed by Prof. SHEN Zhicheng’s team at the Zhejiang University, College of Agriculture ...

[Editor’s Note: ZHANG Yi, an undergraduate of BA Denian Medical Class at Chu Kochen Honors College, is one of the recipients of the CKC Scholarship, the highest scholarship at Zhejiang University. Determined, devoted, and diligent, Zhang steps on the way to a clinical scientist with her commitment to tackling the rare diseases. In this feature story, we will learn more about her growth trajectory.] Determination throughoutAll things are possible for those with unflagging determination, and...

On March 14, WANG Chao, a master’s student at the College of Electrical Engineering, and LIN Xin, a PhD candidate at the School of Management, co-authored a research article entitled “Coordinating Thermal Energy Storage Capacity Planning and Multi-Channels Energy Dispatch in Wind-Concentrating Solar Power Energy System”, which will come out soon in the Journal of Cleaner Production.This interdisciplinary “pollination” started from a summer social practice program. In 2020, the Col...

The Department of Physics was renamed the School of Physics on March 11.President WU Zhaohui expressed his heartfelt gratitude to Prof. LIN Haiqing, a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, for joining the Zhejiang University community as dean of the School of Physics. He hoped that the School of Physics would gear up efforts to build the world’s leading discipline, open up new vistas for physics tuned in to China’s key strategic needs, and lead the high-quality development of basic disci...

EVs are nanoparticles (30–200 nm) secreted by various cell types, and the lipid bilayer of EVs can retain their bioactivity for a long time and protect functional molecules inside, such as miRNAs. EVs-mediated cell-free therapy is considered a promising alternative to stem cell transplantation. Proper gene modification of EVs can significantly improve cellular uptake or therapeutic RNA delivery to promote therapeutic efficacy. Neural EGFL-like 1 (NELL1) is a protein that stimulates bone formatio...