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Scorpion Stings Repel Its Predator (Video by LAI Ren's Team)
Venom is evolved to arm many otherwise defenseless animals with a lethal weapon, such as snakes, centipedes, scorpions and spiders. Although scorpion stings are well known to be extremely painful, it remains a serious problem worldwide because the molecular base is till poorly known.
Why scorpion stings produce an insufferable... more |
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Recently, a new genus and species of freshwater stygobiotic calanoid was discovered in Yunnan, China. This research is published in Zootaxa：https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4290.1.12 .
Southeast Asia and South China is an area where the development of karst landforms is relatively concentrated. A large number of caves and groundwater are distributed in Karst areas. The environment leads to... more |
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Recently, cooperating with Guangzhou Medical University, Kunming Institute of Zoology reveals a distinct regulatory circuit of SREBP-SCD in regulating lipid metabolism in worm. The study was published in Journal of Lipid Research http://www.jlr.org/content/early/2017/07/14/jlr.M077198.long.
Lipids, including fatty acids, triglycerides and cholesterol, are important membrane components, sign... more |
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| Dynamic changes in structure and function of brain during development and ageing, especially for primate neocortex which is composed of multiple functional regions with six well-organized horizontal layers segregated by multiple cell types and neuronal connections，have been attributed to a great plasticity of distinct neural cell types which differ in their genetic signatures, transcriptomes, ... more |
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The image of sun bear recored in Yingjiang, Yunnan
In the evening of 23 October, 2016, a short video footage of sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) was recorded in Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province, China. This precious video is the first recorded image of the species in China, strongly supporting the distributions of sun bear in China.
The sun bear, also known as honey bear, is the sma... more |
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