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High-calorie foods make the brain hard to control the appetite

Obesity is one of the global public health concerns, but many people’s weight loss plan gets stuck at the “can’t-control-their-appetite”...

How gut microbes manipulate the immune system to trigger fat abs...

Microorganisms are often in battle with the immune system. But research in mice has shown that gut microbes work in tandem with it to determ...

What does not kill you makes you stronger

Following intense pain or stress, people often experience a sense of relief, akin to the lifting of a heavy burden. But how does this subtle...

Obesity is one of the global public health concerns, but many pe...

Recently, a groundbreaking research paper titled “Identification of an IL-1 Receptor Mutation Driving Autoinflammation Directs IL-1-Targete...

PML B-Box 2 trimerization yields a cysteine triad for arsenic bi...

ProMyelocytic Leukemia (PML) protein controls various biological functions, such as apoptosis, senescence or stem cell self-renewal. PML may...

Activation of innate immune system: its critical role in bone di...

Innate immune system is an important arm of host immune defense mechanisms that produces a non-specific rapid response to pathogens or other...

A positive feedback loop between cancer cells and macrophages dr...

Metastasis is a major cause of death for gastric cancer patients. The liver is the most common site for distant metastasis of gastric cancer...

Scientists reveal the pathogenic mechanism of peripheral neuropa...

Charcot-Marie-Tooth diseases (CMT) are a group of inherited peripheral neuropathies with a prevalence of ~1:2500. According to various causa...

Are people with high social status more prone to depression?

Alpha is the “king” of a horde of mice. While meeting another mouse in the pipeline, Alpha can scare it away with merely a glance. But one...

ZJU Scientists reveals the treatment prospect of key immune cell...

Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction driven by a dysregulated host response, which affects approximately 50 million individuals an...

ZJU scientists discover useful biomarkers for predicting WEE1 in...

Blocking cell-cycle checkpoints by pharmacologic or genetic disruption of checkpoint kinase activities can force cell-cycle progression even...

Novel molecular imaging technology to detect vascular disease

Unobstructed blood vessels are a prerequisite and foundation for our health. However, unhealthy lifestyle and long-term irregular meal patte...

Therapeutic potential of zVAD in autoimmune hepatitis

Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) is an immune-mediated inflammatory disease. The incidence andprevalence of AIH are increasing. In addition, AIH i...

ZJU scientists discover the key roles of hexokinase 2 in shaping...

On December 20, the research team led by Prof. GAO Zhihua and Prof. DUAN Shumin at the Zhejiang University School o...

ZJU scientists achieve large-depth three-photon fluorescence ima...

Scientists at Zhejiang University, including Prof. XI Wang and Prof. Anna Wang Roe at the Interdisciplinary Institute of...