In a paper published in SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences, the formation and evolution of the biota in Hainan Island were revealed via research on their genomes, phylogeny, and molecular biogeography. It was found that the biological groups distributed in Hainan Island that present evolutionary divergence at the genus and species levels，were closely related to the taxa in southwest China and Vietnam, which supported the idea that Hainan Island connected Vietnam and Guangxi during the Eocene-Oligocene proposed by geological tectonics.

Recently, Yulong Yin/Fengna Li from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture Chinese Academy of Sciences published a paper entitled "Metabolome and RNA-seq reveal discrepant metabolism and Metabolism" in SCIENCE CHINA Life Sciences. This study investigated the metabolic difference of longissimus dorsi muscle between Taoyuan black pigs (Chinese native breed, obese) and Duroc pigs (lean) at different ages, and revealed the mechanism of muscle-adipose tissue interaction mediated by muscle-derived secretory metabolites.

Researchers led by François Fuks - Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics, ULB Faculty of Medicine, ULB-Cancer Research Center and Jules Bordet Institute, H.U.B. - have discovered a new mechanism which enables precise gene regulation by combining DNA and RNA epigenetics. Published in the journal Cell, their discovery opens up new perspectives in biology and could revolutionise future cancer treatments through personalised therapies.