Recently, research teams led by Professor Cai Songhua from the Shenzhen Branch of the Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor Mao Wenjun from Wuxi People's Hospital, and Professor Tang Bufu from Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University have focused on the immune microenvironment and lung cancer radiotherapy. They demonstrated a combined therapeutic approach targeting SPP1⁺ macrophages to enhance radiotherapy sensitivity, with the findings published under the title“ SPP1⁺ TAM: CD8⁺ T cell crosstalk associates with blocking radiotherapy efficacy in lung cancer” on Research.

Recently, Professor Jie Kong, Associate Professor Jin Liang, and their research team from Northwestern Polytechnical University have systematically reviewed the design strategies, printing processes, and application progress of magnetically responsive materials in 4D printing. This study thoroughly analyzes the working principles and performance optimization methods of magnetically responsive shape memory materials, and demonstrates their innovative applications in fields such as biomedical tissue engineering, robotics, and intelligent devices. The relevant work was published in Research under the title "4D Printing of Magnetically Responsive Materials and Their Applications" (Research, 2025, DOI: 10.34133/research.0847).

To address this challenge, Professor Liu Rui's team from South China University of Technology introduces a novel quantitative method, cell-specific causal network entropy (CCNE), which analyzes gene-level causal relationships to infer distinct causal networks for individual cells and identify pre-transition states in complex biological systems.

A research paper by scientists at Nankai University presents a monolithic synaptic device that replicates and integrates tactile sensing and neuromorphic processing functions for in-sensor computing.

The new research paper, published on Aug. 19, 2025 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, reported a monolithic pressure-electronic-gated (PEG) neuromorphic device that replicates CT afferents, for low-threshold mechanosensation and neuromorphic information processing in the same device.