Recently, a collaboration between the Ji Lab at the School of Physical Science and Technology, and Beijing Institute of Genomics’s Han Lab developed a single-base editing technique in Staphylococcus aureus and their results were published online in Chemical Science in an article titled, “Highly Efficient Base Editing in Staphylococcus aureus Using an Engineered CRISPR RNA-guided C...

Nature Microbiology recently made available as an Advance Online Publication the research findings of a collaboration between SIAIS Research Associate Professor Liu Jia from the Laboratory of ADC Chemistry and Professor Xu Jianqin from Fudan University Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center on new progress on Zika virus, elucidating the role of AXL in promoting Zika virus (ZIKV) infection.ZIK...

ShanghaiTech University and Jing Medicine Technology (Shanghai) Ltd. announced an over $100 million USD strategic collaboration to discover and develop novel small molecule anti-cancer drugs. Under the terms of the agreement, Jing Medicine will receive global development and commercialization rights of anti-cancer molecules resulting from the collaboration with ShanghaiTech University. ShanghaiTec...

Polypharmacology is the next generation of disease treatment, promising more effective drugs that are less toxic and have fewer side effects. However, polypharmacological drugs, which simultaneously act on multiple targets, remain extremely difficult to develop, though maybe not for long, according to a study published this week in Cell.Apparently, the key lies in obtaining a better understanding ...

The direct conversion of solar energy to electrical power is widely regarded as a key technology to tackle the energy crisis in a sustainable manner. Among innovative technologies, metal halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have advanced to the forefront of solution-processed photovoltaic techniques, promising for high power conversion efficiency and low cost. Currently, the technique involving th...

Nature Neuroscience recently published a study demonstrating that the transcription of multiple genes in the brain can be simultaneously activated using CRISPR–dCas9-activator transgenic mice. This work was performed by researchers in Dr. YANG Hui’s lab at the Institute of Neuroscience and State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Techn...

It was past dusk and a group of ShanghaiTech students were prowling around in the dark at Shanghai’s Chenshan Botanical Garden using only their smart phones to light the way. Walking through a grassy area, they came upon a surprising sight. The two hedgehogs they found out on an evening stroll were probably just as surprised to see the students, who typically spend more time in the lab than in th...

Under the support of the National Key Research and Development Program titled “High stability, full spectrum, high-efficiency solar cells materials exploration and device realization,” the School of Physical Science Technology’s Ning Zhijun Group explored Lead Sulfide (PbS) as the active layer and developed highly efficient inverted structural quantum dot (QDs) solar cells. Recently, their work...

On January 12, Steven Chu, the 1997 Nobel Prize winner in Physics and former US Secretary of Energy, visited ShanghaiTech delivered the ShanghaiTech Lecture on The role of nanoscience and electrochemistry in sustainability and biology to teachers and students as well as nearly one hundred high school students from eight middle schools in Shanghai who were specially invited.Professor Chu, who is al...

These days, virtual reality is red hot, with Forbes proclaiming 2016 as “Year One for VR in China” as the sector picks up the pace and begins to grow here. With Alibaba, Xiaomi, HTC, Chukong, Shanda, and Tencent embracing the technology, VR looks to have an exciting future in China. Technode reports that total VR investment in 2015 and 2016 reached 4 billion RMB ($593 million USD).As usual,...

ShanghaiTech Vice President Professor Gong Jinkang and Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics Deputy Directory Professor Tai Renzhong gave opening remarks. They welcomed scientists from all over the world to ShanghaiTech University and wished them an enjoyable stay in Shanghai and a fruitful experience at the workshop. A poster from German Erlangen-Nürnberg scientist Olaf Brummel was awarded ...

A collaborative research project between Yan Shichao, an assistant Professor in School of Physical Science and Technology at ShanghaiTech University and Professor Sebastian Loth at Max Planck Institute in Germany discovered the spin-based NDR effect in antiferromagnetically coupled few-atom spin chains. Their research paper on the “Dynamical Negative Differential Resistance in Antiferromagne...