• How Is Puberty Onset Developmentally Programmed?
    17 Nov 2022

    Prof. WU's group found that TBX3 defines a progenitor domain in the developing hypothalamus and serves as a fate determinant to sequentially control the establishment and maintenance of neuronal fate.

  • Molecular Mechanism of a Protein That Regulates Endoreduplication and Cell Growth in Arabidopsis
    26 Oct 2022

    A joint research team led by Prof. Li Yunhai at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Profs. Song Chunpeng and Guo Siyi at the Henan University, have recently revealed the molecular mechanism of an...

  • Study Reveals How Plants Sense H2O2 to Regulate Immunity
    20 Oct 2022

    An illustration of a redox relay with peroxiredoxin B (PRXIIB) serving as a sensor for H2O2 and abscisic acid insensitive 2 (ABI2) serving as a target protein that mediated reactive oxygen species (ROS) signaling during plant immunity was recently...

  • Strategies to Generate Neuronal Diversity
    19 Oct 2022

    In a review published in the Neuroscience Bulletin, researchers led by Dr. Wu Qingfeng from Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have illustrated three distinct strategies deployed by neural progenitor...

  • Researchers Discover New Plant Immune Pathway Based on G Protein
    19 Oct 2022

    The research team led by Prof. ZHOU Jianmin found that microbial patterns rapidly induce the nuclear accumulation of XLG2, which requires its nuclear-localization signal motif and phosphorylation sites of XLG2. They showed that the nuclear localiz...

  • Structure of Wheat Immune Protein Resolved
    08 Oct 2022

    Scientists have unravelled how wheat protects itself from a deadly pathogen. Their findings, published in the journal Nature, could be harnessed to make important crop species more resistant to disease.