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Liu et al. Reduced graphene oxide membrane as supporting film for high-resolution cryo-EM. Biophysics Reports, July, 2021 Although single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) has been applied extensively for elucidating many crucial biological mechanisms at the molecular level, this technique still … Continue reading →

Nie et al. Three epitope-distinct human antibodies from RenMab mice neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and cooperatively minimize the escape of mutants. Cell Discov., July 20, 2021 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a pandemic disease caused by the newly emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome … Continue reading →

Liu et al. Exon and protein positioning in a pre-catalytic group II intron RNP primed for splicing. Nucleic Acids Research, Epub 2020 Oct 6. Group II introns are the putative progenitors of nuclear spliceosomal introns and use the same two-step … Continue reading →

On July 1, 2020, Nan Liu (2020 Ph.D. Graduate) was awarded the honorary title of Outstanding Graduate of Beijing.

On Sep. 24, 2020, Hongwei Wang was awarded the 2019 Science and Technology Breakthrough Award (with Jijie Chai) by School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University. Please visit https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/V3wmG1-dI0oV4zw-G4YRlQ for more details.

Recently, the official website of Cell Press updated the list of advisory boards for Cell. Seven Chinese scientists, including Hongwei Wang, Fu Gao, Qi Zhou, Sanwen Huang, Caixia Gao, Lingling Chen and Zemin Zhang, were selected. Together with Xuetao Cao and … Continue reading →

Zheng et al. Robust ultraclean atomically thin membranes for atomic-resolution electron microscopy. Nat. Commun., 2020 Jan 28. The fast development of high-resolution electron microscopy (EM) demands a background-noise-free substrate to support the specimens, where atomically thin graphene membranes can serve … Continue reading →

Wang, Chai and Zhou’s project “Structural and functional research on a plant NLR resistosome” was selected as “2019 Top Ten Progresses in Life Sciences in China”. Please visit https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1655364469393570437&wfr=spider&for=pc for more details.

Dai et al. WHAMM initiates autolysosome tubulation by promoting actin polymerization on autolysosomes. Nat. Commun., 2019 Aug 16. WHAMM, a member of the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASP) family, is an actin nucleation promoting factor (NPF) that also associates with membranes and microtubules. Here we … Continue reading →

Hongwei Wang has been awarded the 2019 XPLORER PRIZE, provided by Tencent Foundation. Please visit https://xplorerprize.org/gonggao.html for more details.