supported by National Institutes of Health Grants R01 AI109317 and R01 AI138203.
Recently,the role of bacterial gasdermin(bGSDM)has been biochemically characterized and published in Science by Johnson et al.,which bridges the gap in functional understanding of GSDM between prokaryotes and eukaryot...
A joint research team led by Dr.MAO Fangyuan and Dr.ZHANG Chi from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology(IVPP)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Prof.MENG Jin from the American Museum of N...
Zhang Yupeng was standing on his balcony in Nanjing,Jiangsu Province in east China,waiting for the clock to strike 10 on April 4.It was the day of Qingming Festival,the traditional time to remember one's ancestors and...
Why do humans travel?Traveling is to find new living space,At the beginning human beings used to travel.In the age of hunting and gathering our ancestors had to constantly find new sources of food.They were forced to ...
supported by the grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31600842)
Adult neural stem cells(a NSCs)primarily exist in two regions:the subventricular zone(SVZ)of the lateral ventricle(LV)and the subgranular zone(SGZ)in the hippocampal dentate gyrus(DG)[1].It has been revealed that a NS...
This paper sought to examine Igbo philosophy of death as an essential feature for authentic human existence in Africa.Death is a mystery which defies human understanding.No wonder,existentialist philosophers conceive ...
QINGMING Festival is a traditional day in China which has a history of over 2,500 years. It is a day on which the final resting places of one’s family ancestors are swept clean and sacrifices are offered for the soul...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(11571272,11201368 and 11631012);the National Science and Technology Major Project of China(2012ZX10002001);the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province(2015JQ1011);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2014M560755)
We analyze the global structure and evolution of human gene coexpression networks driven by new gene integration. When the Pearson correlation coefficient is greater than or equal to 0.5, we find that the coexpression...
How our ancestors evolved and emigrated have long been heatedly disputed and pursued. and scientists from around the world have been working hard to reconstruct the emigration history of early humans by identifying an...
A brief description of the windmills from the second millennium BC to the Renaissance is presented. This survey is a part of several studies conducted by the authors on technology in the ancient world. The windmills a...