SIAT Research
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Oct 26, 2018Scientists Uncover Key Brain Mechanism in Salience ProcessingA study carried out by Prof. ZHU Yingjie from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Professor CHEN Xiaoke from Stanford Uni... Scientists have discovered a new brain mechanism underlying salience processing that controls associative learning.The salience of a stimulus is the state of being noticeable or important. Saliency... -
Oct 16, 2018Chinese Scientists Unlock Structural Secrets of Whale BaleenDr. WANG Bin from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Professors Meyers, Sullivan and Pissarenko from the University of Californ... Chinese scientists working with other researchers have for the first time uncovered the underlying mechanisms of the hierarchical structure of baleen, with an eye toward developing advanced enginee... -
Sep 21, 2018Researchers Develop SUN Wukong-Hair-Like Tunable Mold: Multiple Microarray Replicas Obtained from One MoldThe novel SMP mold just resembles the magic abilities of the Monkey King (or SUN Wukong), a famous character in the classical Chinese Epic Novel, portrayed his Journey to the West, one of the most ... In recent years, microarrays have aroused enormous interests due to their widespread applications in anti-icing, cell manipulation, and anti-bioadhesion. However, such arrays are typically fabricat... -
Aug 28, 2018On-chip Ultrasound Stimulation Compatible with Patch-clamp to Investigate the Mechanism of Ultrasound Neuro-modulationA research team led by Prof. ZHENG Hairong at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed various neuro-modulation tools for different scales... With an increase in the incidence of neuropsychiatric disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and Parkinson’s disease, their treatment is gaining intense attention from a variety of disciplines fr... -
Jul 17, 2018Scientists Explore New Way for Preparing SiGe alloys with Superior Thermoelectric PerformanceDr. SUI Fan and her collaborators from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences considered other phonon scattering mechanisms besides mass scattering... N type SiGe alloys are a kind of superior thermoelectric materials, serve as the power generation ingot in Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG), could sustaining convert waste heat from radi... -
Jul 09, 2018Cas9N3-BPs Delivery Platform Give New Way for Gene Therapy and Personalized MedicineA research team led by Prof. YU Xuefeng at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has reported a two-dimensional (2D) black phosphorus nanosheets (... A research team led by Prof. YU Xuefeng at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has reported a two-dimensional (2D) black phosphorus nanosheets (... -
Jul 03, 2018Latest Algorithm for Optimizing Intelligent Transportation and Self-Driving Received by IEEE IV (2018)Recently, two papers from Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were accepted by IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV 2018), which demonstrated the ... Recently, two papers from Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were accepted by IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV 2018), which demonstrated the ... -
Jul 02, 2018Use Ultrasound to Open Mechano-Sensitive Ion Channel to Control Neuronal ActivitiesProf. ZHENG Hairong at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Prof. LI Yuezhou, from Zhejiang University, reported a complet... Neurostimulation is among the fundamental ways of neuroscience to probe the neural mechanisms from molecular to behavioral levels. Ultrasound is a non-invasive neurostimulation tool has made possib...