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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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10.30 2025A Research Team from Nankai University Reports Key Discovery in Acid Zero-Gap Membrane Electrode Assembly Carbon Dioxide Electrolyzers
Recently, Prof. Luo Jingshan’s research group at the College of Electronic Information and Optical Engineering, Nankai University (NKU) reported new findings in the field of acidic membrane electrode assembly for electrocatalytic carbon dioxide (CO₂) reduction in Nature Communications. The research team proposed using porous membrane in place of conventional Nafionmembrane to enable highly selective and stable electrocatalytic CO₂conversion under acidic conditions, thereby providing a new soluti
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10.29 2025A Research Team from Nankai University Reports Breakthrough in Precision Measurements of Phi Mesons and Neutral Kaons
On October 15, Prof. Zhao Minggang from the School of Physics, Nankai University (NKU), in collaboration with Prof.Dong Liaoyuan and Li Haibo from the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as Prof. Ke Baiqian from Zhengzhou University, achieved a breakthrough in experimental measurements of low-energy QCD, based on data samples collected near the strange-charmed meson threshold by the BESIII experiment. The related findings, entitled “Study of φ→K⁺K⁻and K_S^0-K_L
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10.20 2025A Research Team from Nankai University Develops Nearest Paired Cloud for Robust and Fast Drift Correction for Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy
Recently, a research team led by Prof. Pan Leiting and Prof. Xu Jingjun from the School of Physics and TEDA Institute of Applied Physics, Nankai University, in collaboration with Prof. Xu Ke’s research group at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, published a paper titled “Fast and robust drift correction for single-molecule localization microscopy” inNature Communications. The study introduces theNearest Paired Cloud (NPC) drift correction algorithm relying exclusively on coordinate inf
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09.25 2025Nankai University-Developed Novel Anti-Tumor Drug Approved for the Phase III Clinical Trial
ACT001， anovel anti-tumor drug candidate, invented by a research team led by Professor Chen Yue from the College of Chemistry and the State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology at Nankai University, has been approved by China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) to enter the Phase III clinical trial, based on thepromising results from its Phase IIb clinicalstudy.ACT001, a novel anti-tumor drug independently developed by Professor Chen’s team over 15 years, is capable of cros
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09.22 2025Nankai University Research Team Publishes Groundbreaking Study in Science
Recently, a research team led by Eiichi Nakamura, Chair Professor at Nankai University, published their latest findings titled “Rapid, Low-temperature Nanodiamond Formation by Electron-beam Activation of Adamantane C–H Bonds” in Science.Professor Nakamura’s team utilized an organic molecular precursor with a cage-like diamondoid framework containing 10 carbon atoms. By applyingelectron-beam irradiation for seconds to minutes under vacuum conditions at room temperature or lower, they successfully
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09.18 2025Nankai University Research Team Makes Breakthrough in Room-Temperature 2D Topological Magnetic Materials Design
A research team has achieved a major breakthrough in the design and development of room-temperature two-dimensional (2D) vdW topological magnetic materials. Their findings appear in the paper titled “Intercalation-Engineered Out-of-Plane Polarized van der Waals Ferromagnetic Superlattice with Room-Temperature Néel-Type Skyrmion”, published inACS Nanoon September 4, 2025. The work was led by Professor Xuewen Fu from the Ultrafast Electron Microscopy Laboratory at the School of Physics, Nankai Uni
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07.10 2025Nankai University Research Team Makes Breakthrough in Mechanism of Crossing BBB
Recently, a research team led by Professors Wang Lei and Feng Lu from the National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases/ TEDA Institute of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology at Nankai University has made a major breakthrough in the study of the blood–brain barrier (BBB).
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07.03 2025Nankai University Team Achieves World’s First Motor Function Restoration in Impaired Limbs via Interventional BCI
Recently, a research team led by Professor Duan Feng of Nankai University has successfully completed the world’s first clinical trial using an interventional brain-computer interface (BCI) to assist in the motor function restoration in a paralyzed limb. The breakthrough enabled a hemiplegic patient to regain mobility in the affected limb.
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