Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) led by Prof. ZHANG Douguo have unveiled a planar optical device that significantly enhances the capabilities of dark-field microscopy, achieving super-resolution imaging beyond the diffraction limit. Their research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

A research team led by Prof. ZENG Zhutian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) identified and named a novel population of bladder-resident macrophages, termed suburothelial perivascular macrophages (suPVMs), which can prevent hematogenous dissemination of uropathogens by releasing macrophage extracellular traps (METs). This finding has been published in Immunity.