光学天文望远镜400年

关于天文望远镜的历史,有几本书很值得一读.例如,<望远镜的历史>(The History of the Telescope)是1950年代出版的一部经典之作[1].有两部<洞察宇宙的眼睛>(Eyes on the Universe)[2,3],是两位享誉世界的科普大家的作品,均极具可读性.     

Caterpillar-inspired design and fabrication of a self-walking actuator with anisotropy,gradient and instant response

<正>With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Key Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Prof.Zhou Feng's research group at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,reported a caterpillar-inspired self-walking actuator in Small(2015,11(28):3494—3501).     

数字解剖学——数字医学的基础

传统解剖学科学系统的创立已经有500多年历史,它是医学发展的基石.在人体解剖学建立之前,医学基本依靠猜测来诊断和治疗疾病.公元2世纪,罗马医圣盖伦(C.Galen)进行动物及人的解剖研究,写出了<论人体各器官的作用>(On the Utility of the Part)和<论解剖程序>(On Anatomical Procedure)等著作,统治医学近1200年.文艺复兴时期,比利时医生维萨里(A.Vesalius)以大量丰富的解剖实践资料,对人体的结构进行了精确的描述.他在<人体的构造>(De Humanis Corporis Fabrica)中.     

Contactless and rapid discrimination of improvised explosives by tailoring ZnS nanocrystals

<正>With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and"Hundred Talents Program"of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS),the research team led by Prof.Dou Xincun(窦新存)at Xinjiang Technical Institute of PhysicsChemistry,CAS,developed a chemiresistive sensory array for the     

Northeastern Asian Symposium on Network Held in Xi＇an

<正>From September 15th to 17th,2010,"2010 Northeastern Asian Symposium on the Next Generation Network and Network Security"was held in Xi'an,jointly organized by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC),Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(JSPS) and National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF).Prof.Chen Yiyu,President of NSFC,Prof.Motoyuki Ono,President of JSPS and Prof.Kyuhan Bae,Director General of NRF made remarks on behalf of their agencies in the opening of the Meeting. Some 40 scientists from China,Japan and Korea exchanged views and discussed fully on"the Next     

Highly integrated and transparent circuits fabricated by embedded inkjet printing

<正>With the financial support of 973Program,the National Natural Science Foundation of China,and the"Strategic Priority Research Program"of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Prof.Song Yanlin(宋延林)and colleagues at the Key Laboratory of Green Printing,Institute of Chemistry,Chinese Academy of Sciences reported recently on the fabrication of transparent multilayer circuits by liquid film-based embedded     

10th Anniversary of the Sino-German Center Celebrated

<正>Celebration for the tenth anniversary of the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion(the Sino-German Center) and"Strategic Workshop on Sino-German Cooperation"were jointly held by NSFC and DFG in Beijing on October 19,2010.Prof.Lu Yongxiang,Vice-chairman of the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee and President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,NSFC President Chen Yiyu,DFG President Matthias Kleiner,German Ambassador Dr.Michael Schaefer and about 240 guests from Chinese and German scientific communities attended the celebration at the Sino-German Center. On the Strategic Workshop,which is one of the celebration activities,over 30 active participants of Si-     

Cryo-EM structure of 30-nm chromatin fibers

<正>With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,the Ministry of Science and Technology of China,and the Chinese Academy of Sciences,Professors Li Guohong and Zhu Ping's laboratory at the Institute of Biophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,reported the Cryo-EM structure of 30-nm chromatin fibers in Science(2014,344(6182):376—80).In the meanwhile,a commentary for the paper—"The 30-nm Fiber Redux"—written by Dr.Andrew Travers from Cambridge University and an     

Disarming superbugs by a combination of glycolipids with β-lactam antibiotics

<正>With the generous support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China,the research teams of China State Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry(Prof.Chen Daijie)and East China University of Science and Technology(Dr.He Xiaopeng)developed new glycolipid"weapons"to disarm superbugs(ACS Med Chem Lett,2015,6:793—7).This work has also been high-     

Rif1 maintains telomere length homeostasis of ESCs by mediating heterochromatin silencing

<正>With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China,Prof.Liu Lin's laboratory at the School of Life Sciences,Nankai University,published their research findings in an article"Rif1 Maintains telomere length homeostasis of ESCs by mediating heterochromatin silencing"in Developmental Cell(2014,29(1):7—19).     

A novel function of autism-related protein MeCP2:Interfering with the DGCR8/Drosha complex to suppress miRNA processing

<正>With the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China,Prof.Qiu Zilong's group at the Institute of Neuroscience,Chinese Academy of Sciences,unraveled a novel function of autism-related protein MeCP2in the article"MeCP2suppressed nuclear microRNA processing and dendritic growth by regulating the DGCR8/Drosha complex"in Developmental Cell(2014,28:547—560).     

Artificial biosynthetic pathway design for β-valienamine

<正>With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China,the research team led by Prof.Feng Yan(冯雁),collaborating with Prof.Bai LinQuan(白林泉)at the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism,School of Life ScienceBiotechnology,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,recently reported"De novo biosynthesis ofβ-valienamine in engi-     

NSFC Delegation Visited the National Research Council of Thailand

On November 28, Prof. Chen Yiyu, President of NSFC, headed the NSFC delegation to the National Re- search Council of Thailand (NRCT). Professor Ahnond Bunyaratvej, Secretary General of NRCT warmly wel- comed the delegation. Both parties showed their satisfaction to the cooperation. NSFC has always been one of the most active and important collaborators of NRCT. It was agreed that a bilateral workshop would be added each year to the existing framework of the cooperation. Both sid…     

Heterotrimeric G proteins regulate nitrogen-use efficiencyin rice

<正>With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Dr.Fu Xiangdong,Principle Investigator of the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,published his research findings in an article"Heterotrimeric G proteins regulate nitrogen-use efficiency in rice"in Nature Genetics(2014,46(4):652—7).     

Reward signaling in the dorsal raphe nucleus

<正>Prof.Luo Minmin's laboratory at the National Institute of Biological Sciences,Beijing,published a research article entitled"Dorsal Raphe Neurons Signal Reward through 5-HT and Glutamate"in Neuron(2014,81(6):1360—1374).Reward processing is a fundamental function of the brain,and the dysfunctions of the central reward system are commonly associated with anhedonia,depression and schizophrenia.The dorsal raphe nucleus     

Transgenic monkeys overexpressinghuman MECP2 gene exhibit Autism-like behaviors and germline transmission

<正>With the support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Chinese Academy of Sciences,and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China,the lab led by Dr.Qiu ZiLong(仇子龙)and the research team led by Dr.Sun Qiang at the Institute of Neuroscience,Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences reported online on their research result entitled"Autism-like behav-     

Non-apoptotic role of caspase-3 in synapse refinement

<正>Dr.Luo Zhen'ge's laboratory at the Institute of Neuroscience,Chinese Academy of Sciences published a research article entitled"Caspase-3 cleavage of dishevelled induces elimination of postsynaptic structures"in Dev Cell(2014,28(6):670—684).Caspase-3,the effector protease among mammalian caspases,plays a critical role in apoptosis.Inter-     

An ultra-highly stable and selective porous ion conductive membrane for vanadium flow battery

<正>With the support of the NationalNatural Science Foundation of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences,the research team led by Prof.Li Xianfeng(李先锋)and Prof.Zhang Huamin at Division of Energy Storage,Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics,Chinese Academy of Science,reported recently on"Advanced     

DBC1 negatively modulates regulatory T cells function under the inflammation

<正>With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Dr.Li Bin and colleagues at the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai,in collaboration with Dr.Zheng Songguo and colleagues,have published their study entitled"Inflammation negatively regulates FOXP3and regulatory T-cell function via DBC1"in PNAS(2015,112(25):E3246—3254).Regulatory T cells(Treg)are actively engaged in the prevention of autoimmunity and mitigation of aber-     

What a glass memorizes about its past

<正>With the support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Science and Technology of China,the research team led by Prof.Wang Weihua(汪卫华)at the Institute of Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,reported"The Memory Effect Manifested by a Boson Peak in Metallic