SIAT Research
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Dec 12, 2018A Novel CRISPR-Cas-Triggered Isothermal Amplification Method for Ultrasensitive DNA DetectionA research team led by Dr. ZHOU Wenhua and supervised by Prof. YU Xuefeng at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has reported a novel isothermal... Polymerase chain reactions (PCR) is a technique generally used in molecular biology to make copies of a specific DNA segment, but due to its limitation of power-hungry thermocycling and operational... -
Nov 26, 2018A New Preparation Method for Black Phosphorus with High-Efficiency and Inexpensive CostA research team led by Prof. YU Xuefeng at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently developed a low-cost metal-free photocatalyst based ... Black phosphorus (BP) holds large promise in the fields of energy and catalysis, due to its unique thickness dependent direct bandgap, the broad absorption and high charge mobility.Scientists have ... -
Nov 16, 2018Scientists Develope “Trojan Horses” MRI Tracking for Glioma TherapyA research team led by Prof. ZHENG Hairong at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed an intelligent biomimetic theranostic platform by i... Cell-based drug delivery systems have been increasingly explored as “Trojan horses” to carry concealed drug cargoes for tumor-targeted therapy owing to the intrinsic tumor-homing and drug-carryin... -
Oct 26, 2018Scientists Uncover Key Brain Mechanism in Salience ProcessingA study carried out by Prof. ZHU Yingjie from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Professor CHEN Xiaoke from Stanford Uni... Scientists have discovered a new brain mechanism underlying salience processing that controls associative learning.The salience of a stimulus is the state of being noticeable or important. Saliency... -
Oct 16, 2018Chinese Scientists Unlock Structural Secrets of Whale BaleenDr. WANG Bin from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Professors Meyers, Sullivan and Pissarenko from the University of Californ... Chinese scientists working with other researchers have for the first time uncovered the underlying mechanisms of the hierarchical structure of baleen, with an eye toward developing advanced enginee... -
Sep 21, 2018Researchers Develop SUN Wukong-Hair-Like Tunable Mold: Multiple Microarray Replicas Obtained from One MoldThe novel SMP mold just resembles the magic abilities of the Monkey King (or SUN Wukong), a famous character in the classical Chinese Epic Novel, portrayed his Journey to the West, one of the most ... In recent years, microarrays have aroused enormous interests due to their widespread applications in anti-icing, cell manipulation, and anti-bioadhesion. However, such arrays are typically fabricat... -
Aug 28, 2018On-chip Ultrasound Stimulation Compatible with Patch-clamp to Investigate the Mechanism of Ultrasound Neuro-modulationA research team led by Prof. ZHENG Hairong at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, developed various neuro-modulation tools for different scales... With an increase in the incidence of neuropsychiatric disorders, such as depression, anxiety, and Parkinson’s disease, their treatment is gaining intense attention from a variety of disciplines fr... -
Jul 17, 2018Scientists Explore New Way for Preparing SiGe alloys with Superior Thermoelectric PerformanceDr. SUI Fan and her collaborators from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences considered other phonon scattering mechanisms besides mass scattering... N type SiGe alloys are a kind of superior thermoelectric materials, serve as the power generation ingot in Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG), could sustaining convert waste heat from radi...