Peking University, May 24, 2022: Metabolic glycans labeling (MGL) offers a powerful means to study glycans in multicellular systems. It utilized unnatural sugars (for example, azidosugars or alkynyl sugars) which are metabolically incorporated into cellular glycans followed by bi...

Peking University, May 17, 2022: A 76.8-meter Bhutan pine was discovered in Medog County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, the tallest ever recorded in the Chinese mainland, according to local authorities. The tree surpasses the previous record of 72 meters and has beco...

Peking University, April 27, 2022: On April 10, 2022, in the operating theatre of the Second Inpatient Department of PKU First Hospital, Prof. Li Xuesong was performing a pyeloplasty (surgical reconstruction of a part of the kidney) while Prof. Ji Zhigang was observing and monito...

Peking University, April 19, 2022: On April 13, 2022, the research team led by Deng Hongkui at Peking University published a ground-breaking research paper titled "Chemical reprogramming of human somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells" in Nature.Pluripotent stem cells are known...

Peking University, April 18, 2022: Wildfire is a phenomenon of burning biomass that occurs on natural vegetation types. It is the main source of disturbance of ecosystems and one of the main natural emission sources of aerosols, affecting the global carbon cycle, climate, economy...