COVER ARTICLE

The PIWI-specific insertion module helps load longer piRNAs for translational activation essential for male fertility

Xin Wang, Di-Hang Lin,?Yue Yan,?An-Hui Wang,?Jiaoyang Liao,?Qian Meng,?Wen-Qing Yang,?Heng Zuo,?Min-Min Hua,?Fengjuan Zhang,?Hongwen Zhu,?Hu Zhou,?Tian-Yu Huang,?Rui He,?Guangyong Li,?Yue-Qiu Tan,?Hui-Juan Shi,?Lan-Tao Gou,?Dangsheng Li,?Ligang Wu,?Yonggang Zheng,?Xiang-Dong Fu,?Jinsong Li,?Rujuan Liu,?Guo-Hui Li,?Mo-Fang Liu

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1459-1481

REVIEW

Innate and adaptive immune abnormalities underlying autoimmune diseases: the genetic connections

Xinxin Chi, Miaozhen Huang,?Hailin Tu,?Bin Zhang,?Xin Lin,?Huji Xu,?Chen Dong,?Xiaoyu Hu

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1482-1517

A comprehensive review on natural phenolic compounds as alternatives to in-feed antibiotics

Jingxia Gao, Zhe Yang,?Chongqi Zhao,?Xiongzhuo Tang,?Qian Jiang,?Yulong Yin

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1518-1534

RESEARCH PAPER

From oral structure to molecular evidence: new insights into the evolutionary phylogeny of the ciliate order Sessilida (Protista, Ciliophora), with the establishment of two new families and new contributions to the poorly studied family Vaginicolidae

Borong Lu, Xiaozhong Hu,?Alan Warren,?Weibo Song,?Ying Yan

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1535-1553

Enlarged fins of Tibetan catfish provide new evidence of adaptation to high plateau

Liandong Yang, Ning Sun,?Honghui Zeng,?Ying Wang,?Wenjun Chen,?Zufa Ding,?Yang Liu,?Jing Wang,?Minghui Meng,?Yanjun Shen,?Jingliang Kang,?Xiuhui Ma,?Wenqi Lv,?Juan Chen,?Axel Meyer,?Baocheng Guo,?Shunping He

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1554-1568

Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate alleviated diarrhea and colitis via?Lactobacillus johnsonii?biofilm-mediated maturation of sulfomucin

Ning Ma, Pingting Guo,?Jingyu Chen,?Zengkai Qi,?Chunchen Liu,?Jiakun Shen,?Yiwei Sun,?Xiyue Chen,?Guo-Qiang Chen,?Xi Ma

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1569-1588

Orally administered BZL-sRNA-20 oligonucleotide targeting?TLR4?effectively ameliorates acute lung injury in mice

Dandan Zhao, Yuhao Qin,?Jiaqi Liu,?Kegong Tang,?Shuaiyao Lu,?Zirui Liu,?Yexuan Lin,?Cong Zhang,?Fengming Huang,?Jiahui Chang,?Chang Li,?Mingyao Tian,?Yiming Ma,?Xiaoyun Li,?Congzhao Zhou,?Xiao Li,?Xiaozhong Peng,?Ningyi Jin,?Chengyu Jiang

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1589-1599

The patterns and participants of parental histone recycling during DNA replication in?Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Zhongqing Shan,Yan Zhang,?Jiachen Bu,?Huizhi Li,?Zhuqiang Zhang,?Jun Xiong,?Bing Zhu

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1600-1614

Machine learning-aided scoring of synthesis difficulties for designer chromosomes

Yan Zheng, Kai Song,?Ze-Xiong Xie,?Ming-Zhe Han,?Fei Guo,?Ying-Jin Yuan

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1615-1625

Integrating polygenic and clinical risks to improve stroke risk stratification in prospective Chinese cohorts

Qingmei Cui, Fangchao Liu,?Jianxin Li,?Xiaoge Niu,?Zhongying Liu,?Chong Shen,?Dongsheng Hu,?Keyong Huang,?Shufeng Chen,?Jie Cao,?Xiaoqing Liu,?Ling Yu,?Fanghong Lu,?Xianping Wu,?Liancheng Zhao,?Jianfeng Huang,?Ying Li,?Zhibin Hu,?Hongbing Shen,?Dongfeng Gu,?Xiangfeng Lu

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1626-1635

Network prediction of surgical complication clusters: a prospective multicenter cohort study

Xiaochu Yu, Peng Wu,?Zixing Wang,?Wei Han,?Yuguang Huang,?Shijie Xin,?Qiang Zhang,?Shengxiu Zhao,?Hong Sun,?Guanghua Lei,?Taiping Zhang,?Luwen Zhang,?Yubing Shen,?Wentao Gu,?Hongwei Li,?Jingmei Jiang

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1636-1646

TaMADS29 interacts with TaNF-YB1 to synergistically regulate early grain development in bread wheat

Guoyu Liu, Runqi Zhang,?Sen Li,?Rehmat Ullah,?Fengping Yang,?Zihao Wang,?Weilong Guo,?Mingshan You,?Baoyun Li,?Chaojie Xie,?Liangsheng Wang,?Jie Liu,?Zhongfu Ni,?Qixin Sun,?Rongqi Liang

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1647-1664

Autophagy mediates a direct synergistic interaction during co-transmission of two distinct arboviruses by insect vectors

Dongsheng Jia, Qifu Liang,?Hongyan Chen,?Huan Liu,?Guangjun Li,?Xiaofeng Zhang,?Qian Chen,?Aiming Wang,?Taiyun Wei

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1665-1681

Nitrogen addition and mowing alter drought resistance and recovery of grassland communities

Zhuwen Xu, Heyong Liu,?Yani Meng,?Jinfei Yin,?Haiyan Ren,?Mai-He Li,?Shan Yang,?Shiming Tang,?Yong Jiang,?Lin Jiang

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1682-1692

INSIGHT

Transformation of cognition from mechanical to biological aqueous outflow pump may be a breakthrough in solving the problem of intraocular pressure regulation in glaucoma

Shen Wu, Chen Xin,?Wei Zhu,?Yue Wan,?Qing Sang,?Rong Du,?Jian Wu,?Jin Wang,?Ningli Wang

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1693-1696

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

The effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection on human embryo early development: a multicenter prospective cohort study

Xiaolei Chen, Huangcong Shi,?Cheng Li,?Wanxia Zhong,?Linlin Cui,?Wenjun Zhang,?Ling Geng,?Kuona Hu,?Mei Fang,?Daimin Wei,?Junhao Yan,?Yun Sun,?Keliang Wu,?Han Zhao,?Zi-Jiang Chen

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1697-1700

A simple and efficient carbon nanotube-based nanocarriers simultaneously delivers multiple plasmids into diverse mature tissues of monocotyledonous crops

Xuedong Liu, Wenwen Kong,?Nian Xiao,?Lijuan Huang,?Yu Zhang,?Weizhao Chen,?Beixin Mo,?Yu Yu

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1701-1704

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT

Advances in the genetic etiology of premature ovarian insufficiency

Qi Guo, Xiao-yan Liang

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1705-1707

PIWI-specific insertion module: a newly identified regulatory element essential for longer piRNAs loading and male fertility

Chunyu Liu, Feng Zhang

SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences 66(7), 2023,?1708-1710