Nature produces colors in several different ways, from the vibrant blues of a morpho butterfly’s wings to the iridescent hues of an opal and the ever-changing colors of a chameleon’s skin. These fascinating colorations, known as structural colors, result from the diffraction of light from nanostructures. After millions of years of evolution, the structural colors have long captivated scient...

On November 6 and 7, Professor Rosario Rizzuto, President of the National Center for Gene Therapy and Drugs based on RNA Technology, in Italy, visited ShanghaiTech. Professor Rizzuto served as the Rector of the University of Padua from 2015 to 2021, and currently leads its Department of Biomedical Sciences. The comprehensive two-day program was designed to provide Professor Rizzuto with ...

The global final of the 21st International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM) concluded in Paris on October 25. The team “ShanghaiTech-China” from ShanghaiTech University competed alongside over 450 teams from around the world and stood out as the gold medal winner for their project “PACIFY.” This year, the team was guided by Professor Shen Wei from the School of Life Science an...

On October 28, a delegation from Springer Nature led by Frank Vrancken Peeters, Chief Executive Officer, visited ShanghaiTech University. They were warmly welcomed by Jiang Mianheng, Chair of the University Governing Board, and Jiang Ge, Vice President. The delegation also included Arnout Jacobs, President of Greater China; Xiaohong Helena Yang, Vice President for Government and Academic Affairs; ...

On October 26, Jürgen Mlynek, Chairman of the Board of the Falling Walls Foundation, visited ShanghaiTech University and met with Vice President Jiang Ge. Mlynek served as Vice President of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and later as President of the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 2005 until 2015, he was President of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. Jiang Ge w...

ShanghaiTech University convened the sixth plenary meeting of the second session of the University Governing Board on October 26. Board members Ding Zhongli, Zhou Xiaochuan, Zhang Jie, Gong Ke, Jiang Mianheng, Li Ruxin, and Feng Donglai attended the meeting. Invited guests included Xie Dong, Vice Mayor of Shanghai; Chen Qun, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People’...

Complexity science and artificial intelligence (AI) have become focal topics in recent years. On October 22, Giorgio Parisi, the 2021 Nobel Laureate in Physics and Professor at Sapienza University of Rome, delivered an insightful and engaging talk for the 20th edition of “The ShanghaiTech Lecture”, attended by nearly 400 audience members. His talk, titled “Complexity, Artificial Intelligen...

At the 27th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI 2024), held from October 6 to 10, two students from ShanghaiTech University were honored for their outstanding research achievements in medical image computing and computer-assisted interventions. Chen Hongbo, a PhD student from Assistant Professor Zheng Rui’s group at the School of Informat...

From September 28 to 29, the 2024 Head of Shanghai River Regatta took place on Suzhou Creek, under the theme “Rowing Beyond Boundaries.” The event attracted 41 eights, 16 single sculls, and 11 coxed fours, with around 650 participants in total. 4.2 km Chase routine This marked the fourth year of participation for ShanghaiTech Boat Club. The 26-member ShanghaiTech team achieved a histor...

The baculovirus expression vector system (BEVS) is widely utilized in laboratories and industry for delivering transgenes into insect cells. In addition, baculovirus has also emerged as a gene delivery vector in mammalian cells. Due to its large packaging capacity and its non-replicative and non-integrative nature in mammals, baculovirus has been proposed as a promising gene therapy vect...

Pulmonary fibrosis is a chronic progressive disease and a common end-stage pathological manifestation of various chronic lung conditions, with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) being the most prevalent. The onset of IPF is characterized by repeated epithelial cell damage, leading to impaired epithelial regeneration and activation of lung fibroblasts into myofibroblasts. This process results in e...

The mid-infrared (MIR) band shows significant promise in various fields, including thermal imaging, spectroscopy sensing, infrared countermeasures, and free-space communication, due to its distinctive characteristics. Despite substantial efforts to develop on-chip photonic integrated circuits for MIR applications, which aim to miniaturize systems and expand their application scopes, the challenge ...

On September 10, a delegation from the China Medical Board (CMB), led by CMB Trustee and Board Chair Designate Harvey V. Fineberg, along with President Roger Glass and Executive Vice President Barbara J. Stoll, visited ShanghaiTech University. They were warmly received by Jiang Mianheng, Chair of the University Governing Board, President Feng Donglai and Vice President Jiang Ge. Group photo o...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection remains a severe global public health issue, with China bearing one of the highest burdens of HBV infection worldwide. It is estimated that over 80 million people in China are currently HBV carriers, with approximately 30 million cases diagnosed as chronic hepatitis B. The surface antigen of the HBV, known as HBsAg, is a critical protein responsible for the invasi...