Ecosystem services are an important tool for Ecological Civilization Construction and an agent of clear water and green mountains becoming mountains of silver and gold. Rapid valuation of ecosystem services is an essential way to achieve the large-scale application of ecosystem services. However, conventional valuation of ecosystem services using primary data requires complex statistics that ma...
The lungs were once believed to be a sterile environment, but in recent years, metagenomics studies confirmed the presence of commensal bacteria in the lungs of healthy individuals. The lungs or lower respiratory tract is linked to the upper respiratory tract and the oral cavity, and several studies have reported that the microbes in the nasal and oral cavity are involved in the formation of th...
Depression is one of the most common mental disorders with the highest disability, affecting about 4.4% of the global population. Women are more likely to be affected by depression and develop more severe depressive symptoms than men, but the underlying mechanisms that contribute to sex difference of depression remain unclear. The recently rediscovered meningeal lymphatic vessels are immune str...
Radiotherapy (RT) is an integral modality in the treatment of head and neck cancers (HNC), especially for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, which is prevalent in Southern China. However, radiation may result in brain necrosis, a severe, irreversible or even life-threatening cerebral complication, since healthy brain tissue in or around the RT fields could be damaged. The optimal timing of initiating me...
Thyroid associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) is an autoimmune condition affecting the orbit and ocular adnexa that may lead to vision loss. Treatment for TAO remains challenging because of the poor understanding of its pathogenesis. On July 26, 2022, Prof. Wenru Su's group from Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center of Sun Yat-sen University recently published their results in Cell Reports Medicine.
Recently, Professor Ming Kuang from the Center of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University and colleagues published novel mechanisms underlying post-RFA HCC recurrence in internationally renowned journal Hepatology, entitled “Eliminating METTL1-mediated accumulation of PMN-MDSCs prevents HCC recurrence after radiofrequency ablation”.
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