In our daily lives, we often have to make quick judgments about strangers based on very little information. The face, as a distinct cue for social communication, is particularly useful for inferring individual characteristics in interpersonal judgment and decision making. The facial width-to-height ratio (FWHR) is one cue that people implicitly use to determine the extent to which men might be tru...

At the Shanghai Science and Technology Award Conference held on March 23, 2018, Professor Kurt Hermann Wüthrich, distinguished professor of ShanghaiTech University’s iHuman Institute, was presented the 2017 Shanghai International Science and Technology Cooperation Award. Professor Wüthrich was appointed as Distinguished Professor of the iHuman Institute of ShanghaiTech University in 2013 a...

The paper "Network Information Flow" by Professor Cai Ning and his co-authors was honored with the 2018 ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Paper Award. The paper, first published in Volume 46, Issue 4 of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory in July of 2000, is universally recognized as a landmark paper in the field of network coding. This seminal work on network coding has had a pro...

A team of scientists led by Dr. Jia Chen and Dr. Xingxu Huang of the School of Life Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University, along with Dr Li Yang of the CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a series of novel CRISPR/Cpf1 (Cas12a) bases editors. The paper entitled “Base editing with a Cpf1– cytidine deaminase fusion”...

After two months of preliminary competition, Geekpie from ShanghaiTech University successfully submitted a proposal to the Asia Supercomputing Community (ASC) HPC Contest. The team, comprising of five undergraduate students and led by Dr. Shu Yin, an assistant professor at ShanghaiTech University, finished first at the preliminaries and gained acceptance to the finals, which will take place in May...

A famous line from a novel by Henry Miller reads, “One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” For ShanghaiTech students who have returned from study abroad, it seems that their time abroad has been both an academic and personal journey.Half of ShanghaiTech students will have the opportunity to study abroad before graduation, in a summer school program or a s...

A student leans over a worktable, sawing back and forth with a handsaw. Over the loud din, another student tells me she’s building a stool. Sawdust flies as beautiful, yet functional, wood pieces come together through the students’ patient and determined handiwork. The woodworking class is one of ShanghaiTech’s new offerings, a hands-on class to supplement the students’ current lab-heavy workl...

A team of researchers led by Professor Lin Bolin at ShanghaiTech University have discovered a new principle for efficient CO2 mitigation, and, for the first time, explicitly overturned the dominant paradigm that the use of fossil fuel power to drive CO2 chemical reductions would create more CO2 emissions than it would reduce CO2. The researchers propose a progressive strategy for gl...

Recently, a collaboration between the Ji Lab at the School of Physical Science and Technology, and Beijing Institute of Genomics’s Han Lab developed a single-base editing technique in Staphylococcus aureus and their results were published online in Chemical Science in an article titled, “Highly Efficient Base Editing in Staphylococcus aureus Using an Engineered CRISPR RNA-guided C...

Nature Microbiology recently made available as an Advance Online Publication the research findings of a collaboration between SIAIS Research Associate Professor Liu Jia from the Laboratory of ADC Chemistry and Professor Xu Jianqin from Fudan University Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center on new progress on Zika virus, elucidating the role of AXL in promoting Zika virus (ZIKV) infection.ZIK...

ShanghaiTech University and Jing Medicine Technology (Shanghai) Ltd. announced an over $100 million USD strategic collaboration to discover and develop novel small molecule anti-cancer drugs. Under the terms of the agreement, Jing Medicine will receive global development and commercialization rights of anti-cancer molecules resulting from the collaboration with ShanghaiTech University. ShanghaiTec...

Polypharmacology is the next generation of disease treatment, promising more effective drugs that are less toxic and have fewer side effects. However, polypharmacological drugs, which simultaneously act on multiple targets, remain extremely difficult to develop, though maybe not for long, according to a study published this week in Cell.Apparently, the key lies in obtaining a better understanding ...

The direct conversion of solar energy to electrical power is widely regarded as a key technology to tackle the energy crisis in a sustainable manner. Among innovative technologies, metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have advanced to the forefront of solution-processed photovoltaic techniques, promising for high power conversion efficiency and low cost. Currently, the technique involving th...