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Research over the past decade has implicated over-expression of the Yes-associated protein (YAP) in the development of breast cancer. Despite strong experimental correlation between these and the proliferation, survival and migration of breast cancer cells, how YAP promotes cancer development was unclear until CHEN Ceshi’s group at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Scie... more |
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Glyptothorax is a most species-diverse but poorly knowing catfish genus in Sisoridae. There are about 80 valid species widely distributed throughout the entire southern arc of the Asian continent. Wu et al. (1981) described G. zanaensis from Zana in the Nujiang (upper Salween River) drainage in Tibet. This species was not mentioned in Li’s (1984) review of the Chinese Glyptothorax, in whi... more |
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A mount of natural medicines exert their activities depending on not only small molecular compounds but also proteins and/or peptides. Recently, the group supervised by prof. Ren Lai, from Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences has achieved a great contribution to investigate functional proteins and peptides from medicinal insects and amphibians by proteomics and/or pept... more |
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Working alongside researchers from the Institute of Mental Health at the Second Xiangya Hospital, Ph.D candidate MA Liang and his colleagues of the Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms at the Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (KIZ, CAS) are working to better understand genetic risk factors associated schizophrenia in Han Chinese.
Despite years... more |
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| Collaborating with colleagues from the Institute of Life Sciences in Jiangsu, the Second People’s Hospital of the Yunnan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Yunnan Kunming Blood Center, Drs. PANG Wei and ZHENG Yongtang of the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ, CAS) undertook an in-depth study on the rising entanglement of the drug trade and HIV-1 epidemic along the Golden Triang... more |
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