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A joint research team led by Prof. SHI Zhengguo from the Institute of Earth Environment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their collaborators

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) exhibit the potential to act as signal carriers during the development of malignant tumors. At a suitable concentration, ROS tends to mediate cell growth and signal transduction.

Disentangling the effects of rainfall timing and magnitude on animal and plant populations is essential to reveal the biological consequence of diverse climate change scenarios around the world. We conducted a 10-y, large-scale, manipulative experiment to examine the bottom-up effects of changes in rainfall regime on the population dynamics of Brandt’s voles in the steppe grassland of Inner Mongolia, China. We found that a moderate rainfall increase during the early growing season could produc...

To achieve the goals of the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, we must identify representative targets that effectively protect biodiversity and can be implemented at a national level. We developed a framework to identify synergies between biodiversity and carbon across the Asian region and proposed a stepwise approach based on scalable priorities at regional, biome, and national levels that can complement potential Convention on Biological Diversity targets of protecting 30% land in the p...

Carbon dioxide (CO2) electroreduction in solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) is an effective way to combine CO2 conversion and renewable electrical...

Higher alcohols (C2+OH), important intermediates for fine chemicals, are mainly produced via petrochemical route, which is energy-intensive and...

Plants exist a large number of secondary metabolites with complex structures, which constitute the unique taste of each plant species. As an agricultural...

Chinese Academy of Sciences Biomethane (CH Currently, CH 4 is mainly produced via a multi-step process in which biomass is first gasified into biogas, followed by the methanation of the latter. This method requires high temperature and pressure and shows low selectivity for chemical or biological processes. Recently, a research group led by Prof. WANG Feng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. WANG Min’s group from Dalian...

Chinese Academy of Sciences Global warming imposes a major threat to plant growth and crop production. In many cases, plants could sense the temperature increase and adjust their morphology and development, facilitating plant cooling and warm adaptation. Hence, understanding the mechanisms of these morphological and developmental changes, collectively called thermomorphogenesis, could benefit the breeding of warm-adaptive crops. Recently, a research team led by Dr. JIANG Danhua from the Institu...

Gold nanocatalyst is a potential catalyst for CO preferential oxidation (PROX) reaction. However, with the increase of reaction temperatures, CO...