XMU Academician Lin Shengcai Awarded Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize

On December 19, the 2023 Ho Leung Ho Lee (HLHL) Foundation award ceremony took place in Beijing, honoring 56 outstanding scientists in the field of science and technology this year. Among them, Academician Lin Shengcai, Professor from the School of Life Sciences, received the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress (Award for Life Sciences).The Ho Leung Ho Lee...

[Nature]Biological carbon pump estimate based on multidecadal hydrographic data

Wei-Lei Wang, Weiwei Fu, Frédéric A. C. Le Moigne, Robert T. Letscher, Yi Liu, Jin-Ming Tang & François W. Primeau https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06772-4Published: 12 December 2023AbstractThe transfer of photosynthetically produced organic carbon from surface to mesopelagic waters draws carbon dioxide from the atmosphere1. However, current observation-based estimates disagree on the...

Three XMU Professors Elected as Academicians

On 22 November, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) announced their results for the 2023 selection of new academicians, recognizing eminent scientists and scholars across the nation with the highest academic honor. Three distinguished XMU faculty members have been elected as new academicians. Professor Zheng Nanfeng and Professor Zhang Rong were re...

XMU Wraps Up 2023 Sports Meeting

On 3 November, XMU kicked off its 58th Student Sports Meeting, the 21st Faculty Sports Meeting, and the 32nd Elderly Sports and Fitness Meeting at its Siming and Xiang’an Campuses.In the March-in Ceremony, athletes from different schools paraded into the stadium at an orderly pace exuding vitality with their heads held high. The ceremony featured a series of impressive performances, including ...

XMU Welcomes New Students of 2023

On 7 September, XMU held the 2023 Opening Ceremony. 13,000 students joined the event both online and on site.President Zhang Zongyi addressed the attendees, giving a warm welcome to the freshmen on behalf of the university and expecting them to adapt well to the new life and study hard to embrace the world.

【CELL】Opioid-induced Fragile-like Regulatory T Cells Contribute to Withdrawal

Dysregulation of the immune system is a cardinal feature of opioid addiction. Here, we characterize the landscape of peripheral immune cells from patients with opioid use disorder and from healthy controls. Opioid-associated blood exhibited an abnormal distribution of immune cells characterized by a significant expansion of fragile-like regulatory T cells (Tregs), which was positively correlate...