The secret inside embryos that decides how bodies take shape
Professor Jing Chen's team found that adding a phosphate at a single site on the protein Huluwa switches on signaling that sets up the body axis in fish and frog embryos.
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Sichuan University
Features on peer-reviewed research by scientists at Sichuan University.
This natural frog remedy may revolutionize skin protection from radiation
Professor Shuyu Zhang's team found that a peptide from dark-spotted frog skin protected skin cells and mice from radiation injury by damping an inflammation pathway, speeding wound healing.
Targeting IRF1 to Combat Inflammation from Radiation and Viral Infections
Professor Shuyu Zhang's team found that radiation and SARS-CoV-2 proteins activate the protein IRF1 in structural skin cells, driving inflammation and cell death that small-molecule inhibitors suppressed.