This study shows that oral—but not intravenous—lysozyme reshapes gut microbiota to reactivate PI3K–Akt signaling and reverse vascular aging in mice, revealing a gut–vascular inflammatory aging axis and pointing to potential noninvasive therapies for age-related vascular disease.

Recently, a research team from Chongqing Medical University, led by Prof. Wei Huang, Dr. Wei Bao, and Dr. Yiting Lei, has successfully developed a novel engineered extracellular matrix (eECM) to address the challenge of cartilage repair. Their findings were published in Research under the title "Cytokine-Activated MSC-Derived ECM Facilitates Cartilage Repair by Maintaining Chondrocyte Homeostasis and Promoting Chondrogenic Differentiation of Recruited Stem Cells."

Recently, to address this issue, the research group led by Qian Xiang from the Division of Intelligent Instruments and Equipment at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School proposed a flexible electret tactile feedback actuator based on multi-layer variable stiffness polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomers.

Hadrons consist of quarks and gluons, collectively known as partons. The probability of finding a parton carrying a specific fraction of the hadron's momentum is described by parton distribution functions (PDFs), which are important for predicting parton-related phenomena. In a new study, Professor Xiangdong Ji studies two cutting-edge approaches for calculating PDFs from first principles, analyzing how they differ and how they can complement each other.