A research paper by scientists from Nanyang Technological University developed a miniature wireless controller that is fully implantable to small insects and demonstrated that the implantation of electronic device enhances traversal performance of the cyborg cockroach.

The new research paper, published on May. 25 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, developed the first fully implantable miniature radio controller for the Madagascar hissing cockroach.

The research team led by Professor Zhongyu Xie from Sun Yat-sen University revealed a new mechanism by which Pim1 regulated Th17 cell differentiation through mitochondrial metabolism. Through molecular docking screening, they identified Nilotinib as an effective candidate drug for the treatment of inflammatory arthritis by targeting Pim1. The relevant achievement has been published in Research (DOI: 10.34133/research.1137) with the title "Pim1 Serves as a Therapeutic Target for Inflammatory Arthritis via Mitochondrial Metabolism and Th17 Cell Differentiation."

Recently, a research team led by Professor Junbo Yang at the National University of Defense Technology has proposed a novel permittivity regulation framework based on programmable interface atomic rearrangement. They developed an Ag-In₃SbTe₂ (IST) interface atomic rearrangement metamaterial (ARM), enabling full-spectrum and time-domain dynamic modulation, as well as spatiotemporal thermal radiation tailoring. The ARM exhibits broad and continuous spectral tunability, with modulation amplitudes reaching 64.74% in the 3-5 μm band and 73.94% in the 8-14 μm band, accompanied by rich temporal variations.