Recent studies have associated the aberrant accumulation of adipocytes in the heart  with many cardiovascular diseases such as arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy and heart failure. Therefore, understanding the cellular origins of cardiac adipocytes (CAs) has important implications for the treatment of fat-associated cardiovascular diseases. Recently, a team of scientist...

On December 1st, 2020, Professor Tiffany Horng from the SLST published an invited review article entitled “Lipid Metabolism in Regulation of Macrophage Functions” in the journal Trends in Cell Biology. In this review, Professor Horng and her postdoc Dr. Yan Jiawei describe the processes whereby signals that regulate macrophage activation influence lipid metabolic pathways and modulate macro...

On January 15, 2021, Professor Luo Zhenge and his colleagues at the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) published a paper entitled, “TBC1D3 promotes neural progenitor proliferation by suppressing the histone methyltransferase G9a”, in the journal Science Advances. The cerebral cortex of mammals controls sensory input, motor output, learning and memory, deci...

A team of scientists led by Professor Zhang Hui from SLST has identified a novel potential therapeutic strategy to treat myocardial infarction. On November 20th, 2020, a paper entitled “Overexpression of Kdr in adult endocardium induces endocardial neovascularization and improves heart function after myocardial infarction” was published online in Cell Research. &nbs...

A team of scientists led by Professor Lu Pengfei from SLST has discovered a novel multi-step mechanism by which vertebrate epithelium undergoes collective migration. On October 13, 2020 (Beijing time), their work was published online as a research article entitled, Asymmetric stratification-induced polarity loss and coordinated individual cell movements drive directional migration of vertebrate ep...

On September 2nd 2020, Professor Shen Wei from SLST with his collaborators published a research paper entitled “Parabrachial neuron types categorically encode thermoregulation variables during heat defense”, in the international academic journal Science in Advances. This paper defined two key elements of the lateral parabrachial nucleus (LPB)-hypothalamic preoptic area (POA) circu...

Recently, two groups from the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech University, led by Prof. Wang Huayi and Prof. Lu Junxia, published a research article entitled “RIP3-mediated necroptosis is regulated by inter-filament assembly of RIP homotypic interaction motif” in Cell Death & Differentiation.  Necroptosis is a type of programmed necrosis induced by ...

A research team led by Professor Zhang Hui from School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech University has demonstrated that erythro-myeloid progenitors (EMPs) are the origin of resident macrophages in multiple organs, but not the origin of intraembryonic vascular endothelial cells. The team has written an article entitled “No Evidence for Erythro-Myeloid Progenitor-Derived Vascu...

A research team led by Professor Sun Bo from SLST has systemically investigated the molecular mechanism governing DNA binding, unwinding and cleavage by SaCas9. They provided a detailed dynamic understanding of SaCas9 in DNA target association and dissociation. In addition, two stable interactions between SaCas9 and DNA governing their interplay have been identified. On August 13, this study ...

In a review article entitled “A Tale of Two Moieties: Rapidly-evolving CRISPR/Cas-based Genome Editing”, Prof. Chen Jia at School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) of ShanghaiTech University and Prof. Yang Li at CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB) of Chinese Academy of Sciences, summarized recent progress about the development and application of gene editing tools...

Recently, a research article entitled “LUBAC and OTULIN regulate autophagy initiation and maturation by mediating the linear ubiquitination and the stabilization of ATG13” was published online in Autophagy. This work was  done by Professor Liu Yanfen’s group from the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech University.  Autophagy is a self-eating sys...

On June 18, a research article entitled “Intellectual disability associated gene ftsj1 is responsible for 2'-O-methylation of specific tRNAs” was published online in EMBO Reports. This work was done by Liu Ru-Juan’s group in the School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech University and Wang En-Duo’s group from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cel...

A team led by Professor Chi Tian from School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech University proposed a new therapeutic strategy for IPEX-like disorders in a mouse model. They convert defective regulatory T cells (Treg) into super-activated Tregs (SuperTreg). The paper, entitled In situ conversion of defective Treg into SuperTreg cells to treat advanced IPEX-like disorders in...

On June 3, 2020, a research article entitled “Cas12a Base Editors Induce Efficient and Specific Editing with Low DNA Damage Response” was published online in Cell Reports.  This work was done by a team led by Dr. Chen Jia from School of Life Science and Technology (SLST) at ShanghaiTech University, Dr. Yang Li from CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology and Dr. L...