[Message from the editor: Prof. LI Lanjuan, featured in the newly released university video, is China’s renowned epidemiologist, leading her team to fight against SARS, H7N9 and COVID-19.]  Quotes from the interview: - In terms of H7N9 research, our work on the clinical characteristics of the emerging infectious disease and the treatment of the artificial liver support system were published in The New England Journal of Medicine. These studies have played a very important role in...

[Message from the editor: Dr. WANG Tun (’95, Cryogenics), one of the main characters featured in the newly released university video, built the world’s largest earthquake early warning system, protecting hundreds of millions of lives.]   Quotes from the interview: - The Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 struck while I was doing my postdoctoral work in Austria. It was on that moment that I decided to return to China to work on disaster early warning.- We have built China’s first ...

On the afternoon of March 24 Beijing time, a joint statement on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was formally announced at an online forum hosted by Zhejiang University.As of the opening of the forum, Presidents of 56 universities from 30 countries and regions have signed onto the statement. It is the first time that leading universities across six continents have jointly made a statement on sustainable development goals (SDGs), reaffirming collective commitment of the globa...

Updated as of March 24, 2021 Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. Entering into the new decade, the sustainability of our planet remains severely challenged by numerous threats, ranging from natural disasters, climate change, pandemics, to inequality and unemployment, etc.With less than 10 years left to...

March 2021The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all the member states of the United Nations in 2015, depicted a shared blueprint for people, planet and prosperity. In the face of various challenges – ranging from poverty and pollution to climate change and Covid-19 – the concerted efforts of all members of society are urgently needed in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. In response to the UN Secretary-General’s global call for a decade of actio...

Recently, the founding meeting of the Molecular Imaging Branch of Chinese Society for Cognitive Science was held at Zhejiang University. Prof. TIAN Mei at Zhejiang University was elected as director of the Molecular Imaging Branch. Vice directors included Prof. SUN Yujie from Peking University, Prof. ZHANG Hong from Zhejiang University, Prof. TENG Gaojun from Southeast University and Prof. DAI Zhifei from Peking University.The Chinese Society of Cognitive Science is committed to research in...

Cell types are the basic building units of multicellular life with extensive diversities. As the number and total class of cell types change with the species evolution, they have been proposed as “evolutionary units” with the potential for quasi-independent evolutionary change. The evolution of cell types is a crucial layer of comparative cell biology but is thus far not comprehensively studied. The research team led by Prof. GUO Guoji from the Zhejiang University School of Medi...

Urbanization has often been considered a threat to food security since it is likely to reduce the availability of croplands. In 2021, researchers from Zhejiang University, City University of Hong Kong, the Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and the University of Exeter Medical School published a paper named “Urbanization can benefit agricultural production with large-scale farming in China” in Nature Food.Changes in urban, rur...

We live in a highly socialized world with immense mental pressure. Prosocial behavior accounts for a large amount of our daily life and is fundamental to our physical and mental health. However, social disorder is a commonly symptom observed in various neurodegenerative, neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders, while placing a heavy burden on the families and society of patients. Therefore, it is urgent to decipher the neural mechanisms underlying prosocial behavior in terms of both .T...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the Earth. Without a pressure-resilient “armor”, a man-made machine would be destroyed by the overwhelmingly hydrostatic pressure if it were to venture into this uninhabitable territory. However, deep-sea creatures can thrive at extreme depths thanks to their unique anatomies. If we can draw inspiration from deep-sea creatures, converting the “secret of life” into the “power of machinery”, we will be able to develop intelligent machines that can ad...