Zhejiang University

The BRIDGE Design Week 2021 wrapped up in Zhejiang University on Sept 11, with 10 teams of students from 17 universities around the world presenting their design proposals to help achieve five of the United Nations’ sustainable…

Fruit softening is a key component of ripening, causing the damage and loss in the fruit food supply chain. It has thus become a scientific and industrial hotspot in the field of post-harvest biology, storage and logistics.Modern breeding…

YU Jianxing, Winner of the Yongping Distinguished Teaching Award 2012“My educational philosophy can be reduced to three sentences. The first is that I should pass love around. What my teachers impressed me the most is their deep love for…

“To achieve the UN’s SDGs, we need to consider multiple aspects – technology, art, culture, humanity, and business – and come up with creative, practical solutions to specific development challenges,” Prof. SUN Shouqian, secretary-general…

Rice viruses are prevalent in many rice-growing countries and often cause serious damages to rice production. Among them, the rice black-streaked dwarf virus (RBSDV), transmitted by the small brown planthopper Laodelphax striatellus,…

Global warming has a dramatic impact on plant ecosystems as well as on crop productivity. Plants are able to sense ambient temperatures and transduce these signals to trigger subsequent responses for physiological adjustment and…

With the expeditious development of structural biology techniques represented by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, the 3D structures of an increasing number of important proteins have been revealed. Taking ion channels as an…

Campus introductionThe International Campus covers an area of 666,700 square meters, with a total building area of 399,300 square meters. As of December 2020, the campus has been fully operational. There are 1973 students in the campus,…

The Drosophila Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule (Dscam1) can generate 38,016 different isoforms through alternative splicing, which has been illustrated as a classical example in many textbooks and treatises. It has been suggested as…

Conventional experiments in chemistry and biology study the behavior of the ensemble, but it has been an abiding scientific challenge for scientists to observe, manipulate and measure the chemical reactions of individual molecules. In…