Research News

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  IGDB Scientists Revealed New Mechanism of Autism Pathogenesis

  The research group led by Dr. ZHANG Yongqing at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that Drosophila mutants of ube3a had excess synaptic boutons and endocytic defects at the neuromuscular junctions, which suggests a previously unknown molecular mechanism of autism pathogenesis.

  15 Jun 2016

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  miR172a, a New Gene Improves Salt Tolerance in Soybean

  The groups of Prof. ZHANG Jinsong and Prof. CHEN Shouyi from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found that soybean miR172a improves salt tolerance and can function as a long distance signal.

  02 Jun 2016

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  A Multiallelic Gene MS5 Regulates Male Fertility in Brassica napus

  The researchers from CHENG Zhukuan’s lab at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborated with YANG Guangsheng’s lab at Huazhong Agricultural University, found that MS5 participates in the progression of meiosis during early prophase I and regulates gametogenesis in Brassica napus.

  02 Jun 2016

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  IGDB Scientists Revealed New Mechanism of Histone Demethylase Genome-wide Targeting

  The research group led by Dr. CAO Xiaofeng at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found a novel targeting mechanism of an H3K27me3 demethylase that regulates plant development, including organ boundary formation.

  20 May 2016

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  Scientists Find a Key Mechanism of Protein Arginine Methyltransferase in Pre-mRNA Splicing

  Researchers from Dr. CAO Xiaofeng’s group in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found a key molecular mechanism for the role of AtPRMT5 in pre-mRNA splicing.

  17 May 2016

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  Chinese Researchers Find Direct Evidence that Zika Causes Microcephaly in Mice

  Chinese researchers said Wednesday they have found direct evidence that Zika infection causes microcephaly, a birth defect marked by an abnormally small head, in mouse experiments. Mouse fetuses injected with the Zika virus and carried to term within their pregnant mothers display the characteristic features of microcephaly, they reported in the...

  12 May 2016

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  Centromere Behavior Has Great Impact on Generation of New Wheat Germplasm

  Dr. HAN Fangpu’s group in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences studied De Novo centromere formation and centromeric sequence expansion in wheat and its wide hybrids, and found the centromere behavior has great impact on generation of new wheat germplasm

  12 May 2016

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  Fetal Mice with Zika Infection Get Microcephaly

  Zika virus disrupts neural progenitor development and leads to microcephaly in mice

  12 May 2016