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April 14, 2025
April 14, 2025
SDU Researchers Made Progress in Oxide Nonlinear Optical Crystals for Mid-Infrared Applications
Recently, the research team led by Professors Lu Dazhi and Yu Haohai from the State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials has reported new advances in langasite-family oxide nonlinear optical crystals. Their study, titled “La3ZrGa5O14: Band-Inversion Strategy in Topology-Protected Octahedron for Large Nonlinear Response and Wide Bandgap”, was published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition...
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April 7, 2025
April 7, 2025
SDU Researchers Reveals Regolith Evolution of Young Lunar Maria through Chang’e-6 Lunar Farside Soils
Recently, the Planetary Science Group of the Space Science Climbing Team of Shandong University researched China’s Chang’e-6 lunar soil samples and achieved new understandings of the space-weathering characteristics of young maria and the evolution mechanism of lunar soils. The related findings have been published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. This paper features Lu Xuejin (Ph.D. cand...
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April 3, 2025
April 3, 2025
Nature! Professor Shang Zhuo from Shandong University, in Collaboration with China Pharmaceutical University, Discovered a Novel Antibiotic to Combat Drug-Resistant Fungal Infections
On March 20, 2025, Prof. Shang Zhuo from the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, in collaboration with Prof. Wang Zongqiang from the National Key Laboratory of Multi-Target Natural Drugs at China Pharmaceutical University, published a research article titled “A Polyene Macrolide Targeting Phospholipids in the Fungal Cell Membrane” in Nature. This study has gained widesprea...
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March 24, 2025
March 24, 2025
Science! SDU Researchers Identified the Membrane Receptor for Ceramide in Adipocytes
Recently, Professor Sun Jinpeng’s team at Shandong University and collaborators published a research paper titled “Metabolic signaling of ceramides through the FPR2 receptor inhibits adipocyte thermogenesis” in Science. This study employed high-throughput screening and animal models to identify FPR2, a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) expressed at the adipocyte plasma membrane, as a critica...
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March 17, 2025
March 17, 2025
Nature! Researchers of Peking University and Shandong University Uncover Key Receptors Driving Atherosclerosis, Paving the Way for Targeted Therapies
A groundbreaking study led by Professor Kong Wei of Peking University and Professor Sun Jinpeng of Shandong University, published in Nature on March 7, reveals CYSLTR2 and P2RY6 as endogenous receptors for ceramide C16:0, a lipid molecule directly linked to atherosclerotic plaque formation. This discovery identifies a novel mechanism by which ceramides exacerbate vascular inflammation and accel...
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March 11, 2025
March 11, 2025
Shandong University and University of Michigan Researchers Publish Comprehensive Review on Fungal Bicyclo[2.2.2]diazaoctane Indole Alkaloids in Chemical Reviews
Researchers from Shandong University, led by Professors Li Shengying, in collaboration with Professor David H. Sherman from the University of Michigan, has published a comprehensive review article titled "The Mutually Inspiring Biological and Chemical Synthesis of Fungal Bicyclo[2.2.2]diazaoctane Indole Alkaloids" in the prestigious journal Chemical Reviews (Impact Factor: 51.4). This review hi...
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March 7, 2025
March 7, 2025
Professor Yuan Xianzheng’s Research Group Achieves Breakthrough in Biohybrid Catalytic Nitrogen Fixation
The research team led by Professor Yuan Xianzheng from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at Shandong University has recently achieved a significant breakthrough in biohybrid catalytic nitrogen fixation. Their relevant study, "Light-Independent Fe3O4-Methanosarcina acetivorans Biohybrid Enhances Nitrogen Fixation and Methanogenesis", has been published in Journal of the America...
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March 3, 2025
March 3, 2025
Opening a New Era! SDU Researchers Identified the Receptor for Equilibration
Recently, Professor Sun Jinpeng’s team at Shandong University and collaborators published a research paper titled “A force-sensitive adhesion GPCR is required for equilibrioception” in Cell Research. This study employed high-throughput screening combined with animal models and electrophysiological recordings to identify LPHN2, a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) expressed at the apical membr...