Research News
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Ceramide Synthases 2 Plays a Critical Role in Maintenance of Liver Homeostasis
Dr. SHUI Guanghou's team from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently demonstrated that Ceramide synthases 2 plays a critical role in maintaining hepatic chromosome polyploidization via Mitotic arrest deficient 2 expression during cell division.
15 Feb 2022
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New Findings Uncover the Impact of Nitrogen Nutrition on Plant Meiosis Initiation
A research group led by Prof. CHENG Zhukuan at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed a new gene ETFβ contributed to ensuring meiotic initiation by promoting nitrogen reutilization under nitrogen starvation.
14 Feb 2022
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Scientists Leverage Multiplex Genome Editing to Create Disease-resistant Wheat
Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences jointly developed a new wheat mutant, Tamlo-R32, which exhibits robust resistance to powdery mildew disease and does not display any growth or yield defects.
10 Feb 2022
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Researchers Develop New Method for Accurate and fast cell marker gene identification
Researchers from Prof. WANG Xiu-Jie’s group at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed a cosine similarity-based method, called COSine similarity-based marker Gene identification (COSG), for more accurate and scalable marker gene identification.
25 Jan 2022
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Microgravity Increases Therapeutic Efficacy of Three-dimensional Cultured Neural Stem Cells in Repairing Spinal Cord Injury
Researchers from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, indicated the feasibility of combining the RCCS (Rotary Cell Culture System) with collagen scaffold-based 3-D cell culture for producing tissue engineering seed cells in the treatment of spinal cord injury.
24 Jan 2022
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Scientists Find New Mechanisms Regulating Endoreduplication in Arabidopsis
Researchers led by Prof. LI Yunhai at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), collaborated with researchers at Henan University and the Institute of Microbiology of CAS, revealed the UBP14/DA3-CDKB1;1-CDKG2/SUD6 regulatory module controls endoreduplication and cell growth in Arabidopsis.
21 Jan 2022
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Molecular and Cellular Drivers of Hypothalamic Aging
Recently, a study led by Dr. WU Qingfeng from Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), revealed five aging hallmarks of the hypothalamus and identified fibroblast-like vascular and leptomeningeal cells (VLMCs) as a critical cell population which might exacerbate aging process through secretory factors.
21 Jan 2022
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Uncovered the Mystery of Apical Hook Formation for Seedling Emergence
Researchers from Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Minnesota, United States, uncovered the mechanism of apical hook formation and proposed a molecular framework for auxin-mediated inhibition of cell expansion.
20 Jan 2022