The use of natural substances derived from traditional Chinese medicine and natural plants as safe radiosensitizing adjuvants is a new trend for cancer radiotherapy. Prof. HUANG Qing’s group from the Institute of Intelligent Machines, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) found ganoderic acid T, which was extracted from Ganoderma, a kind of fungi, could converting apoptosis to necroptosis, hence improve the radiosensitivity of HeLa cells.
Exploring Science Island’s Science Public Outreach CAS embraces its big scientific public outreach each May. They call it the CAS Science Week. It means at a certain weekend in May, every CAS institute launches its brand public outreach campaign in different ways to show and tell the public what is science and how science changes our life.
CAS Produced A Photo Collection to Tell Foreign Expert’s Story on Science Island. CAS produced a photo collection of a French expert, Vincent BRUNO who had spent two years on Science Island for implementing Articulated Inspection Arm Project (AIA) under collaborative framework of EAST-WEST joint laboratory.
Different from small molecules, polymer would fold into lamellar crystals during crystallization and further assemble into lamellar stacks. Synchrotron Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) is an important tool to characterize such nanoscale structure and understand polymer crystallization. However, its scattering mechanism in semi-crystalline polymers is not elucidated completely yet, which prevents severely using this powerful tool to obtain these parameters.
Although immune checkpoint blockade has achieved great success in cancer treatment, its efficacy in breast cancer is limited. Therefore, the identification and evaluation of novel prognostic biomarkers in the immune microenvironment will be very helpful for immunotherapy-based breast cancer treatment.