Research Progress

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  Researchers Provide Novel Insights into Primate Arterial Aging

  Cardiovascular disorders are leading causes of morbidity and death worldwide. Age-associated changes in arterial properties, such as endothelial dysfunction and structural alterations, are considered to be initial events in the development of atherosclerosis. Due to the high heterogeneity of vascular cells from different sources, our understanding of human arterial aging and the development of interventions against human arterial aging and associated diseases are hindered.

  May 08, 2020
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  Climate change shapes the vole population by regulating the composition and metabolism functions of vole’s gut microbiota

  Climate change is taking place at a greater pace with an increase in extreme events, including significant shifts in precipitation patterns. Recent studies suggested that climate change can have a large impact on the population dynamics of many species. Shifts in precipitation can affect plant community composition and primary productivity, especially in arid and semi-arid environments, and hence trigger cascading changes in resources availability for herbivores. Resource availability, in turn, alters small mammal (e.g., rodent) fitness and population dynamics. Although the bottom-up effect of precipitation on rodents has been well documented, few studies have evaluated the relationship between precipitation and rodent populations using manipulative field experiments. Likewise, field studies rarely identify the physiological mechanisms causing the bottom-up regulation of plants on rodents, or examine the role of host-microbiota interactions in this regulation.

  Apr 22, 2020
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  Novel Insight into the first multi-tissue single-cell transcriptomic atlases in Rattus norvegicus aging and CR

  Feb 28, 2020
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  Population genomics of red pandas reveals two phylogenetic species and their different evolutionary histories

  Feb 27, 2020
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  Endophallus Spiraling Occurring After Its Eversion Is An Innovation In Beetle Evolution

  Jan 03, 2020
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  Chromosome-level genome assembly for giant panda provides novel insights into Carnivora chromosome evolution

  Dec 16, 2019
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  Scientists uncover mysteries of the robustness of dorsoventral patterning

  Dec 19, 2019
• New research provide a strategic advantage for the next generation of anti-obesity drug development

  Nov 20, 2019
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  Neural precursor cells regulate the development of microglia during the early brain.

  Nov 14, 2019
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  Neural precursor cells regulate the development of microglia

  Nov 12, 2019