SIAT Research
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Aug 13, 2021Metabolic Changes Over Life Cycle Show Unexpected PathPeople’s metabolisms peak earlier and decline later in life than previously thought An international research team studying data from thousands of people worldwide has shown that people’s metabolisms peak earlier and decline later in life than previously thought.The study was pub... -
Aug 10, 2021Researchers Defined Novel Strategy for Manipulation of Luminescence Properties of Carbon Nanodots and Smart Visual Precision pH SensingResrachers found that the fluorescence properties of CDs can be optimized by simple modification of the molecular structure of the carbon source, providing a novel strategy for the manipulation of ... Carbon nanodots (CDs) are an emerging nanomaterial, which have been significantly developed due to their facile preparation from an abundant carbon source, low toxicity and excellent biocompatibili... -
Aug 07, 2021Targeting Mitosis as Novel Anticancer Mechanism for NanomaterialsResearchers has identified a novel anticancer property of black phosphorus (BP) nanomaterials with a detailed mitosis-targeting mechanism. Recently, a research group led by Prof. LI Hongchang from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a novel anticancer property of black... -
Aug 03, 2021Study Reveals the Dynamics of the Coastal Wetlands in Northeast Italy from 1984 to 2016Driven by strict reservation policy and contiguous aggressive anthropogenic activities, the continental coastal wetlands in the reserve area of NE Italy show the polarization phenomenon Driven by strict reservation policy and contiguous aggressive anthropogenic activities, the continental coastal wetlands in the reserve area of NE Italy show the polarization phenomenon, according ... -
Aug 03, 2021New Strategy for Precise Isolation and Molecular Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells and Fusion CellsA new study published in Lab on a Chip on June 28th proposed a novel hydrodynamic structure to achieve one-step and label-free isolation of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and fusion cells (CFCs) fr... A century ago, German pathologist Otto Aichel discovered that tumor cells could fuse with immune cells, forming fusion cells with both immune cell motility and tumorigenic ability of tumor cells, w... -
Jul 27, 2021Whole Brain Mapping of Primates Enters Micron EraThe research team of Prof. Guo-Qiang BI and Prof. Pak-Ming Lau, along with domestic and international collaborators, realized three-dimensional mapping of the entire brain of the macaque monkey at ... The research team of Prof. Guo-Qiang BI and Prof. Pak-Ming Lau from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy ... -
Jul 26, 2021Deep Learning-powered Multi-Organ Abdominal CT SegmentationA new study published in the Medical Image Analysis on Jul. 9 shows that the proposed hybrid deformable model (HDM) and multi-scale feature fusion network (MFSS) can improve the performance of abdo... Automatic multi-organ abdominal CT segmentation can improve the efficiency of clinical workflows such as disease diagnosis, prognostic analysis, and treatment planning. Artificial intelligence-base... -
Jun 29, 2021New Therapeutic Strategy for Precise Cancer Treatment － Prodrug Activation Using RadiotherapySIAT scientists have explored the possibility of using clinically utilized radiotherapy X-ray sources to activate anti-tumor prodrugs. Chemotherapy is highly efficient and widely used for cancer treatment. However, many commercially applied chemotherapeutic drugs lack the selectively between cancer and normal tissues, and thus ris...