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October 12, 2025
October 12, 2025
Assoc. Prof. Xu Hangzhou’s Group Achieves New Progress in Advanced Oxidation Processes for High-Odor Water Treatment Driven by Cyanobacterial Blooms
Recently, Associate Professor Xu Hangzhou from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at Shandong University has made new progress in the study of high-odor water driven by cyanobacterial blooms treated with advanced oxidation processes (AOPs). The related research, entitled “Investigation of nitro(so)- and chloro-disinfection byproduct formation mechanisms after UV/Cl2 and UV/H2O...
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September 28, 2025
September 28, 2025
Archaeologists Discover 9,000-Year-Old Beans That Could Transform Our Understanding of Agriculture
Every so often, a discovery reshapes the way we think about the beginnings of human civilization. Such is the case with a groundbreaking study led by researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and Shandong University, in collaboration with scientists across China, Japan, and South Korea. Their work, recently published in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, pushes back t...
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September 17, 2025
September 17, 2025
SDU Researchers Suggest a new Electrochemical Mechanism for the Origin of Mysterious Ultraviolet Absorption Stripes in Venusian Atmosphere
Recently, through Venus atmospheric experiments, the Planetary Science Team of Shandong University revealed that gas discharge in the cloud layers of Venus is an important mechanism producing the high concentration of polysulfur and sulfur-oxides, which could be the precursors leading to the formation of the strips with the famous unknown Ultraviolet (UV) absorber in the atmosphere. The related...
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September 11, 2025
September 11, 2025
SDU Researchers Unveils the Mechanism of Nitrogen-Enhanced Drought Recovery in Wheat
A research team led by Prof. Bai Mingyi and Assoc. Prof. Fan Min from the School of Life Sciences at Shandong University, in collaboration with Prof. Xiao Jun from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has recently published a groundbreaking study in Nature Plants, a leading international journal. The study, titled “Nitrogen Enhances Post-Droug...
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August 15, 2025
August 15, 2025
Prof. Wang Fengshan & Zhang Xinke's Group Unveils the Roles of miR-125a-5p in hNSC-EVs in Regulating Cerebral Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury
Ischemic stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide, in which ischemia-reperfusion injury (CIRI) plays a pivotal role in brain dysfunction and long-term disability. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have recently been proven to be a promising therapeutic approach for CIRI. However, the mechanisms underlying the neuroprotective effects of EVs remain unclear. The group of Prof. Wang Fengsha...
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July 31, 2025
July 31, 2025
Shandong University and Xiamen University Researchers Achieve Breakthrough in Sulfur-Containing Natural Product Biosynthesis
Recently, a research team led by Professor Li Shengying from the State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology at Shandong University (SDU), in collaboration with Professor Wang Binju and Professor Zhang Yandong’s teams from Xiamen University, published aresearch articletitled "Deciphering the Thiolactonization Mechanism in Thiolactomycin Biosynthesis" in Journal of the American Chemical Societ...
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July 9, 2025
July 9, 2025
SDU Researchers Found the First Mineralogical Ground Truth for the Mg-rich Pyroxene SPA Annulus on the Moon
Recently, the planetary science team at Shandong University conducted a Raman spectroscopic analysis of lunar soil samples returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission. Their study provides the first mineralogical "ground truth" of the magnesium-rich pyroxene annulus of the South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin on the lunar farside. This breakthrough fills a long-standing gap in our understanding of the li...
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June 20, 2025
June 20, 2025
Prof. Liu Xinyong & Zhan Peng's Team Discovers a New Potent Anti-AIDS Drug Candidate with Improved Resistance and Pharmacokinetics
Recently, Prof. Liu Xinyong & Zhan Peng's team from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences published the latest research achievements of anti-AIDS drugs in Science Advances with the title of “Development of enhanced HIV-1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors with improved resistance and pharmacokinetic profiles”. Associate Prof. Wang Zhao, Prof. Kang Dongwei, and graduate student Sa...