The paper “Prioritizing Sustainable Development of Ecologically Sensitive Regions” was published recently in Ecosystem Health and Sustainability – A Science Partner Journal. The innovative research calls for merging AI with indigenous knowledge and targeting “tipping point” ecosystems to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Building on over a decade of research into the bioactive components of Chansu, the team led by Professors Ma Hongyue and Duan Jin'ao from Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine collaborated with Professor Xu Huaqiang's team at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The research team selected key components from natural toad venoms with distinct medicinal properties (spirit-awakening, hallucinogenic, and detoxifying)—namely 5-OH-DMT, 5-MeO-DMT, and 5-OH-TMT—to systematically analyze their structure-target-efficacy-toxicity-property relationships. At atomic resolution, this study revealed the molecular mechanisms by which toad tryptamines selectively activate various serotonin receptor (5-HTR) subtypes under different medicinal property labels.

On November 2, 2025, the research group led by Dr. Zeng Ling from Army Medical University systematically elucidated the molecular mechanisms, pathological processes, and latest clinical advances in sepsis-induced endothelial barrier dysfunction from the perspective of vascular endothelial cells. This work provides novel insights for precise intervention in sepsis and septic shock. The findings were published in Research under the title "Sepsis-Induced Endothelial Barrier Dysfunction: Mechanisms, Pathology, and Therapeutic Advances" (Research, 2025, Article ID: 0997, DOI: 10.34133/research.0997).

Forests are central to climate mitigation, yet tracking how fast they grow over decades remains difficult.

A research paper by scientists at Tianjin Medical University employed the conditional/conjunctional false discovery rate (cond/conjFDR) approach to investigate the genetic overlap between schizophrenia and white matter microstructure..

The research paper, published on Jan. 9, 2026 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems.