SPST scientists Professor Osamu Terasaki, Dr. Peter Oleynikov, Dr. Alvaro Mayoral and Dr. Ma Yanhang, have collaborated with Professor Kyung Byung Yoon to report a new layered vanadosilicate for removal of 90Sr from highly Na+-rich liquid nuclear waste. The paper was published in Energy & Environmental Science with the title of “Removal of 90Sr from highly Na+-rich liquid nuclear waste w...

A team of scientists led by SLST’s Dr. Qi Wei from and Dr. Song Baoliang from Wuhan University has identified Gpnmb as a liver-secreted factor promoting lipogenesis in white adipose tissue and aggravating obesity and insulin resistance. Using neutralizing antibody, they also demonstrated that reducing circulating Gpnmb brought therapeutic benefit to obesity and diabetes in animal models. This stu...

SEM Assistant Professor Zhou Xiaoyu, in collaboration with Peking University Associate Professor Zhang Yanlong and Singapore Management University Professor Wang Heli, studied empirically how Chinese firms translate their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities into financial market value through multiple paths. Their research was recently published in the Academy of Management Journal, e...

Recently, Assistant Professor Zhou Haotian at School of Entrepreneurship and Management published an empirical article titled “Conflating Temporal Advancement and Epistemic Advancement: The Progression Bias in Judgment and Decision Making” in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. Every decision-making process requires decision-makers to identify the values of choices and estimate its ...

Assistant Professor Yuu Kimata at School of Life Science and Technology published a review article titled ‘APC/C Ubiquitin Ligase: Coupling Cellular Differentiation to G1/G0 Phase in Multicellular Systems’ in Trends in Cell Biology in April 2019. The article reviews the recent progress on the molecular function of a protein complex, the Anaphase Promoting Complex/Cyclosome (APC/C), which is...

When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change came out with their Special Report on Climate Change in October 2018, media attention focused on the short amount of time left to cut emissions before the 1.5-degree threshold that the signatory nations of the Paris Climate Change Agreement committed to is passed. At ShanghaiTech, School of Physical Science and Technology Professor Lin Bolin and t...

Recently, a research group led by iHuman Institute and SLST Assistant Professor Zhong Guisheng, working with collaborators SLST Assistant Professor He Shuijin and Southeast University Professor Chai Renjie, used a super-resolution fluorescence microscope to identify novel cytoskeleton ultrastructures in inner ear hair cell. Their two studies, “A cytoskeleton structure revealed by super-resolution...

Cancer is one of the biggest killers threatening human life and chemotherapy, which kills cancer cells with molecular drugs that are toxic to cells, is one of the main ways to treat cancer. For metastatic tumors, chemotherapy is the most effective method. However, chemotherapy drugs can also kill a large number of normal cells, causing severe toxic side effects and seriously damaging the physical ...

On April 12, Professor Matthew Freeman FRS, head of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at University of Oxford, visited ShanghaiTech.ShanghaiTech President Jiang Mianheng, together with SLST undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs welcomed the professor at a lunchtime gathering where they shared their ideas about potential collaborations. Before lunch, Vice President and Provost Yin J...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Hu Ji from ShanghaiTech’s SLST and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine’s Dr. Xu Tian-le has discovered a new mechanism of itch processing.Itching is an interesting experience consisting of two seemingly opposing components: pruritogen-induced aversion and scratching-induced hedonic feelings. In this study, the joint research team reported on the midbr...

In a News and Views commentary entitled "To BE or not to BE, that is the question", Dr. Jia Chen at School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) of ShanghaiTech University, together with Dr. Bei Yang at Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies (SIAIS) of ShanghaiTech University and Dr. Li Yang at CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB) of Chines...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Yang Bei and Dr. Ian A. Wilson from ShanghaiTech’s SIAIS and Dr. Lu Lu and Dr. Jiang Shibo from Fudan University’s School of Basic Medical Sciences have developed a pan-coronavirus (pan-CoV) fusion inhibitor EK1. EK1 targets the HR1 domains of various human coronavirus (HCoV) spike (S) proteins to prevent the host-HCoV membrane fusion process and inhibits the host...

SPST Assistant Professor Liu Wei’s research group recently published an article titled “High-rate and large-capacity lithium metal anode enabled by volume conformal and self-healable composite polymer electrolyte” in Advanced Science.Lithium-metal batteries can provide a major leap in energy density for the applications of electric vehicles and smart grid, in light of growing demands for large-...

Recently, SPST Assistant Professor Zhang Yuebiao’s group reported a guest-dependent dynamic Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs). In this Issue, they developed a facial and scalable method to produce homogeneous and highly-crystallinity COFs. For the first time, scientists discovered the crystal contraction and expansion of COFs based on gases and guest molecules. Their study, “Guest-Dependent Dyn...