On September 27, the research team led by Prof. MA Zhonghua at the Zhejiang University College of Agriculture & Biotechnology published an article titled “Fusarium BP1 is a reader of H3K27 methylation” in the journal Nucleic Acids Research.Histone H3 lysine 27 methylation (H3K27me3) can result in facultative heterochromatin for transcriptional repression. Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) is responsible for catalyzing and maintaining H3K27me3, and polycomb repressive complex 1...

The Neurology Ward V in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SAHZU) is an inpatient ward entirely for patients with rare diseases, the only one in China.  The establishment of the ward is out of practical considerations. Patients with rare diseases suffer from great pain as well as the stigma of strange diseases. Plus, the inconvenience to travel between cities and the long wait for diagnosis result make patients forego more face-to-face consultatio...

On October 10, the 245th West Lake Forum and the Carbon Peak & Neutrality Summit were held on Zijingang Campus in the hybrid format. More than 150 scholars convened at the forum, sharing the future possibilities for scientific and technological development in terms of how intelligent electric energy serves the carbon peak & neutrality strategy. “In response to climate change, Zhejiang University has been unswervingly committed to bringing into full play its solid disciplinary and r...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs that function in RNA silencing and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. In animals, pri-miRNAs are cleaved by Drosha to generate pre-miRNAs, which are subsequently cleaved by Dicer to generate mature miRNAs. Instead of being cleaved by two different enzymes, both cleavages in plants are performed by Dicer-like 1 (DCL1). With a similar domain architecture as human Dicer, it is mysterious how DCL1 recognizes pri-miRNAs and executes two cl...

Hair loss is becoming an increasingly common problem. Over 50% of the general population experience hair loss at some point in their lifetime and it does impact the body images, social interactions, and psycho-emotional health of individuals. Don’t worry. The good news is coming. Recently, the research team led by GAO Jianqing and LI Fangyuan at the Zhejiang University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences designed a ceria nanozyme (CeNZ)-integrated microneedles patch (Ce-MNs) that ...

On September 28, an exhibition titled “Revisiting Classics in the Flourishing Age—The Series of Ancient Chinese Paintings”, was staged at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in southwest China's Chongqing municipality, kicking off its national tour.The Series of Ancient Chinese Paintings is compiled and co-published by Zhejiang University and the Cultural Heritage Bureau of Zhejiang Province. It is a large-scale national cultural project that spans history and crosses borders. Over the past 1...

What are the pathways towards common prosperity? Co-hosted by the China Academy for Rural Development (CARD) and the School of Public Affairs (SPA) at Zhejiang University, the Workshop on “Integrated Urban-rural Development and Common Prosperity” took place in hybrid format on Sept. 24, bringing together 10 leading scholars from home and abroad to share their insights on this issue. As part of Z4G, ZJU’s sustainability action plan, the Workshop aimed to provide theoretical support for promoti...

On the morning of September 30, A Series of Chinese Classics on Leisure made its debut in the Zhejiang University Library of Ancient Books. This series is based on the basic principles of leisure studies and catalogued by comprehensive, cultural and recreational entries. It contains 310 volumes covering a total of 550 kinds of literature in chronological order. It is the first time that the basic literature regarding Chinese leisure has been systematically compiled.HUANG Xianhai, vice ...

【Message from the editor: In the previous issue, Dr. SHAO Fangwei, associate professor from ZJUI, shared her research and teaching at the International Campus. Today, let’s meet Dr. CHEN Di, assistant professor from the Zhejiang University-University of Edinburgh Institute (ZJE). Di completed his PhD degree in Chinese Academy of Sciences. Then he continued as a postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Los Angeles, focusing on the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells. ...

The team led by Prof. CHEN Shuqing and Prof. PAN Liqiang at the Zhejiang University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences published their latest research findings regarding a multivalent biparatopic EGFR-targeting nanobody drug conjugate in the journal Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy on September 3. Design of multivalent anti-EGFR nanobody drug conjugateAn antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) is a type of anticancer drug linking an antibody with cytotoxic molecules. It integra...