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...

【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...