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Tomatoes are one of the most important vegetables, and China is the largest tomato producer in the world. In recent years, climate change and resource shortages have constituted new challenges to the tomato industry. With the improvement…

Oxidative phosphorylation is the major cellular process utilized by most free-living eukaryotes to gain energy, in the form of ATP, from catabolism. It happens on the inner mitochondria membrane (IMM), where four membrane-bound complexes…

On April 20, the release ceremony of “An English Manual of Situational Dialogues on Medical Services for Asian Games 2022” was held at Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SRRSH). The manual, edited by SRRSH,…

Aggrephagy, the degradation of protein aggregates via autophagy, is an important biological process to clear intracellular toxic protein aggregates. Thus, it is an important target for the treatment of aggregates-related diseases such as…

On May 4, a side event under the framework of the 7th UN STI Forum, was hosted to engage representatives from multi-stakeholders including leadinguniversities, global publishers, NGOs and academics to explore the interaction between ‘open…

On the morning of April 27, Prof. WU Zhaohui, president of Zhejiang University, and Brain P. Schmidt, vice-chancellor and president of the Australian National University (ANU), had a virtual meeting and signed a Memorandum of…

Interested in the beautiful melodies of merry old ballads? Curious about how would a Chinese ballad sound like, or even look like? The team led by Prof. CHEN Xiaojiao and Prof. WANG Xiaosong at Zhejiang University School of Art and…

Have you ever tried to check whether there is a hidden camera in a hotel room? Have you ever worried about being secretly filmed while trying on clothes in a fitting room? Unsurprisingly, how to detect the illegal “electronic eyes” in a…

Myelin is a multiple-layered structure formed by oligodendrocytes. The ensheathment of axons by myelin plays an important role in both functional integrity and long-term survival of axons and thus regulates activity of the central nervous…

It is not only a strategic course of action in response to climate change but also an inevitable option to promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind that every nation should achieve peak CO2 emissions to carbon…