SciOpen, a digital publishing platform for scientific, technical, and medical (STM) journals developed by Tsinghua University Press, has recently reached a major milestone: it now hosts more than 200 journals. This achievement not only highlights its strong capacity to attract high-quality journals, but also reflects its growing success in enhancing the global visibility of local journals. SciOpen has also drawn interest from international recognized institutions such as the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and Tech Science Press.

Aluminum toxicity is a major barrier to crop productivity in acidic soils, restricting root growth and nutrient uptake.

Fresh-cut apple browning is a significant quality issue, often reducing the fruit's marketability. 

Every three seconds, one life is lost to sepsis, according to the Global Sepsis Alliance. It is a life-threatening, dysregulated immune response to infection and remains a leading cause of death worldwide. Most of these deaths are preventable with timely intervention.

Conventional culturing diagnostic methods are often slow and imprecise. The advancement of metagenomic and targeted next-generation sequencing (mNGS and tNGS) now provides rapid precision diagnostics, enabling earlier treatment.

Researchers outline a path to turn carbon dioxide into a valuable green fuel and chemical feedstock, offering a promising strategy for a circular carbon economy.

As the world faces the urgent challenges of climate change and the transition to sustainable energy, a new critical review provides a comprehensive roadmap for converting waste carbon dioxide (CO₂) and carbon monoxide (CO) into propanol, a valuable fuel and industrial chemical. Published by researchers from Korea University and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), the review highlights innovative strategies and outlines future directions for efficient, scalable production of propanol, a vital alcohol used in fuels, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals.

Salt stress remains a critical challenge for plant growth, especially in crops like pea (Pisum sativum L.). 

Researchers have created a novel, bio-based foam that integrates three advanced functions: shielding electromagnetic interference, regulating temperature, and reducing infrared visibility. This lightweight, durable material could protect sensitive electronics in electromagnetic and thermal shock and offer new solutions for camouflage technology.

Recently, a review titled "Circulating tumor cell-derived organoids: current progress, applications, and future" was published in MedComm - Future Medicine. The article systematically summarises the research progress, application scenarios, and future challenges of organoids derived from circulating tumor cells (CTCs). This study comprehensively reviews the biological characteristics of CTCs, strategies for their isolation and enrichment, optimisation techniques for in vitro culture systems, and their significance in basic research, translational medicine, and clinical applications.