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12.29 2025Nankai University Team Achieves New Breakthrough in the Designing of Strongly Coupled Structures for Photonic Devices
A research team from Nankai University, in collaboration with teams from Tsinghua University, Shanghai JiaoTong University, and the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, has published a paper titled “Designing Strongly Coupled Polaritonic Structures via Statistical Machine Learning” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study proposes a novel statistical machine learning framework that enables accurate and efficient design of photonic devices with strongly coup
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12.26 2025Nankai University Team Reports Major Advances in Mid-Infrared Plasmonics
A research team led by Professor Xu Jingjun, Professor Cai Wei, and Associate Professor Luo Weiwei from the School of Physics and TEDA Institute of Applied Physics at Nankai University has achieveda series of significantadvances in the regulation mechanisms and near-field optical characterization of mid-infrared plasmons. The related findings have been published in Science Advances and Nature Communications.The mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectral region encompasses a series of key physical processes,
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12.26 2025Nankai University Research Team Achieves New Advances in Intelligent Assessment of Parkinson’s Disease
A research team led by Professors Huo Weiguang and Han Jianda from the College of Artificial Intelligenceat Nankai University, in collaboration with researchers from Tianjin Huanhu Hospital, City St George’s, University of London, and Imperial College London, has published a study in npj Digital Medicine, a leading journal in the field of digital medicine. The study is titled “Deep Learning-enabled Accurate Assessment of Gait Impairments in Parkinsons Disease Using Smartphone Videos”.The studypr
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12.22 2025A Research Group at Nankai University Releases the 2024 China Insurance Institution Governance Index
On December 13, the China Insurance Institution Governance Evaluation Research Group at Nankai University released the 2024 China Insurance Institution Governance Index (CIIGI). Drawing on the latest annual disclosure data from China’s insurance sector, the 2024 CIIGI represents the index’s ninth annual release since its inaugural publication in 2016.Led by Hao Chen, Associate Professor in the Department of Financial Management at Nankai Business School, the research group leveraged their long-t
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12.18 2025Nankai University Research Team Pioneers Novel Pathway for Broad-Spectrum Anti-Influenza A Therapy
Recently, a research team led by Researcher Liu Shulin at the College of Chemistry, Nankai University, achieved a significant breakthrough in broad-spectrum anti-influenza A therapy. Liu’s team developed an innovative multiplexed PROTAC antiviral strategy capable of simultaneously degrading multiple key components of the viral ribonucleoprotein (vRNP) complex, which is the core machinery for viral replication. This study offers a novel solution for potent, durable, and broad-spectrum influenza t
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12.11 2025Nankai University Research Team Contributes to Groundbreaking Study Published in Nature
Recently, XiangpanJi, Associate Professor at the School of Physics, Nankai University (NKU), in collaboration with Brookhaven National Laboratory physicistJay Hyun Joand Louisiana State Universityprofessor Hanyu Wei, used data from MicroBooNE at Fermilab to achieve a major breakthrough in the study of sterile neutrinos. The study pioneered an innovative “single detector + two neutrino beams” approach, excluding the existence of a single sterile neutrino at a 95% confidence level. Their findings,
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12.09 2025Nankai University Research Team Reports Significant Breakthrough in RNA m⁶A Modification
On November 29, the research group led by Changliang Shan at the College of Pharmacy, Nankai University (NKU), published a paper in Advanced Sciencewiththe title HPD is an m⁶A Methyltransferase that Protects Colorectal Cancer Cells from Ferroptotic Cell Death by m⁶A Methylating SLC7A11/GPX4.In this study, Shan Groupdiscover the tyrosine metabolism enzyme 4-hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPD) as a methyltransferase responsible for m6A modification. Unlike METTL3, which requires the assistance
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12.04 2025Nankai University Professor Publishes Paper in Top-Tier Mathematics Journal
A paper titled “Sticky Kakeya Sets and the Sticky Kakeya Conjecture” by Joshua Zahl, Chair Professor at the Chern Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, and his collaborator WangHong, a jointly appointed professor at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and France’s Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, has been published online in the internationally top-tier mathematics journal, Journal of the American Mathematical Society. This marks the first paper publi
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12.03 2025Nankai University Research Team Makes Significant Progress in Non-Hermitian Exotic Topological Modes
A research team led by ProfessorsChen Shuqi and Cheng Hua of Nankai University, in collaboration with Academician Liu Zhengyou and Professor Deng Weiyin of Wuhan University, haschallenged the conventionalunderstanding of lossin topological physics. By constructing a bilayer structure supporting pseudospin degrees of freedom and introducing only loss, the teamsuccessfully delocalized the topological boundarymodesthat were originally localized at ends or cornersinto the bulk lattice, realizing los
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11.19 2025Nankai University Scholar Publishes a Transcription of the Earliest Foreign Translation of Daodejing
On November 11, Liber Sinicus Táo Tě Kīm inscriptus, in Latinum idioma Versus: The First Translation of the Daodejing in Transcriptionwas released at the College of Philosophy of Nankai University. The book is a collaborative work by Misha Tadd, Associate Professor at the College of Philosophy and Director of the Global Laozegetics Research Center at Nankai University, and young classicist Zhang Xiaoyuan. Published by Lit-Verlagin Germany, the bookprovides invaluable documentary materialsforglob
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11.18 2025Nankai University Team Discovers New Target for Infertility Treatment
A pioneering study by the Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Team from the College of Life Sciences and the State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology at Nankai University has brought new hope to women experiencing infertility due to age or unexplained causes. The research uncoveredthe age-related molecular clock—ribosomal dysregulation—behind the decline in female fertility after the age of 34. It also preliminarily validates thatrapamycin mayserve as a potential, safe, and effective t
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11.13 2025Nankai University Team Achieves Major Breakthrough in Stem Cell Totipotency Activation
A research team led by Professor Shuai Ling at the State Key Laboratory of Chemical Medical BiologyatNankai University, has discovered that knocking out the Sorcs3gene in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) efficiently activates totipotent phenotypes. The underlying mechanism appears to be closely associated with activation of the core transcription factor Tfap2c. Further investigation revealed that acquisition of these totipotent features is primarily achieved through inhibition of three critical
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11.03 2025Nankai University Team Achieves Major Breakthrough in Plant Reproductive Biology
A research team led by Professor Zhang Yan from the College of Life Sciences at Nankai University has recently achieved a major breakthrough in plant reproductive biology. The study revealed a key mechanism governing polarity establishment during pollen germination. The research, titled “Rab5 GTPases mediate the targeting of ROP signaling to establish polarity for pollen germination”, was published in the leading international journal Nature Plants.Pollen germination is the critical first step i
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10.31 2025A Research Team from Nankai University Announces Critical Advances in Activating Totipotency in Embryonic Stem Cells
Recently, a research team led by Prof. Shuai Ling from the State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Nankai University (NKU) discovered that overexpression of the key geneHmgn3in mouse embryonic stem cells can effectively activate the cells’ developmental totipotency, a process functioning through interaction withits downstreamDuxgene family. This study provides novel strategies and models for research in early embryonic development and regenerative medicine. The related findings, enti
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10.31 2025Nankai University-Tsinghua University Joint Research Team Reports Key Discovery in Cell
The Nankai University-Tsinghua University Structure-Based Drug Discovery Team—a joint research team comprising Research Fellow Huang Yucen and Academician Rao Zihe from the State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Nankai University (NKU), alongside Prof. Lou Zhiyong from Tsinghua University—in collaboration with Prof. Zhu Lan’s team from Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and other institutions, has uncovered a concurrence mechanism of RNA temp
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