Peking University, March 19, 2025: The research group led by Prof. Wang Chu from the College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at Peking University published a research article entitled “Quantitative Chemoproteomics Reveals Dopamine’s Protective Modification of Tau” in Nature Chemical Biology (DOI:10.1038/s41589-025-01849-9). Using a novel quantitative chemoproteomic strategy, the team uncovered a protective role of dopamine (DA) in regulating the function of the microtubule-associated protein Tau. This discovery deepens our understanding of dopamine’s physiological and pathological roles in the human brain.

UC San Diego chemistry's Mike Burkart has found a bio-based method to manufacture polyurethanes used in everyday goods. This new method is a less toxic, environmentally friendly alternative to current production methods.

MIT researchers developed a scalable interconnect that facilitates all-to-all communication among many quantum processor modules by enabling each to send and receive quantum information on demand in a user-specified direction. They used the interconnect to demonstrate remote entanglement, a type of correlation that is key to creating a powerful, distributed network of quantum processors.

Peking University, April  2, 2025: A team from Peking University’s College of Future Technology, led by Professor Xi Peng, in collaboration with Professor Jin Dayong at the Eastern Institute of Technology, has achieved a major breakthrough in imaging 15 cellular structures simultaneously by using lipid membrane probes to label all membrane-bound organelles, combined with dual-color spinning-disk confocal microscopy and deep learning. Their study, titled "Fast Segmentation and Multiplexing Imaging of Organelles in Live Cells", published in Nature Communications (DOI:10.1038/s41467-025-57877-5), utilizes Nile Red dye, spinning-disk confocal microscopy, and deep learning to overcome limitations in traditional fluorescent imaging.