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    Gut microbiota impacts bone via Bacteroides vulgatus-valeric acid-related pathways

    Although the gut microbiota has been reported to influence osteoporosis risk, the individual species involved, and underlying mechanisms, remain largely unknown. We performed integrative analyses in a Chinese ...

    Xu Lin, Hong-Mei **ao, Hui-Min Liu, Wan-Qiang Lv in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Camrelizumab combined with apatinib in patients with first-line platinum-resistant or PD-1 inhibitor resistant recurrent/metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a single-arm, phase 2 trial

    Immunotherapy combined with antiangiogenic targeted therapy has improved the treatment of certain solid tumors, but effective regimens remain elusive for refractory recurrent/metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinom...

    Li Yuan, Guo-Dong Jia, **ao-Fei Lv, Si-Yi **e, Shan-Shan Guo in Nature Communications (2023)

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    Transition-metal free C–N bond formation from alkyl iodides and diazonium salts via halogen-atom transfer

    Construction of C-N bond continues to be one part of the most significant goals in organic chemistry because of the universal applications of amines in pharmaceuticals, materials and agrochemicals. However, E2...

    **g Zhang, Min Jiang, Chang-Sheng Wang, Kai Guo, Quan-**n Li in Nature Communications (2022)

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    Innovative ochre processing and tool use in China 40,000 years ago

    Homo sapiens was present in northern Asia by around 40,000 years ago, having replaced archaic populations across Eurasia after episodes of earlier population expansions and interbreeding14. Cultural adaptations ...

    Fa-Gang Wang, Shi-**a Yang, Jun-Yi Ge, Andreu Ollé, Ke-Liang Zhao, Jian-** Yue in Nature (2022)

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    Identification of geographical origins of Panax notoginseng based on HPLC multi-wavelength fusion profiling combined with average linear quantitative fingerprint method

    The aim of this study was to establish a method for geographical origins identification of Panax notoginseng (P. notoginseng) based on abundant chromatographic spectral information. Characteristic fingerprints of...

    **g Bai, Pan Yue, Qiang Dong, Fang Wang, Chengyan He, Yang Li in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    Optimising surface d charge of AuPd nanoalloy catalysts for enhanced catalytic activity

    Understanding the catalytic mechanism of bimetallic nanocatalysts remains challenging. Here, we adopt an adsorbate mediated thermal reduction approach to yield monodispersed AuPd catalysts with continuous chan...

    **aojuan Zhu, Qishui Guo, Yafei Sun, Shangjun Chen in Nature Communications (2019)

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    Improved security bound for the round-robin-differential-phase-shift quantum key distribution

    The round-robin-differential-phase-shift (RRDPS) quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol has attracted intensive study due to its distinct security characteristics; e.g., information leakage is bounded without...

    Zhen-Qiang Yin, Shuang Wang, Wei Chen, Yun-Guang Han, Rong Wang in Nature Communications (2018)

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    Tighter bound of quantum randomness certification for independent-devices scenario

    Quantum random number generation attracts considerable attention, since its randomness inherently originates in quantum mechanics, but not mathematical assumptions. Randomness certification, e.g. entropy estim...

    **n-Wei Fei, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Wei Huang, Bing-Jie Xu, Shuang Wang in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Ground-to-satellite quantum teleportation

    Quantum teleportation of single-photon qubits from a ground observatory to a satellite in low-Earth orbit via an uplink channel is achieved with a fidelity that is well above the classical limit.

    Ji-Gang Ren, ** Xu, Hai-Lin Yong, Liang Zhang, Sheng-Kai Liao, Juan Yin in Nature (2017)

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    Harvesting more grain zinc of wheat for human health

    Increasing grain zinc (Zn) concentration of cereals for minimizing Zn malnutrition in two billion people represents an important global humanitarian challenge. Grain Zn in field-grown wheat at the global scale...

    **n-** Chen, Yue-Qiang Zhang, Yi-** Tong, Yan-Fang Xue in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    GWAS follow-up study of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma identifies potential genetic loci associated with family history of upper gastrointestinal cancer

    Based on our initial genome-wide association study (GWAS) on esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) in Han Chinese, we conducted a follow-up study to examine the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) assoc...

    **n Song, Wen-Qing Li, Nan Hu, Xue Ke Zhao, Zhaoming Wang in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    Loss-tolerant measurement-device-independent quantum private queries

    Quantum private queries (QPQ) is an important cryptography protocol aiming to protect both the user’s and database’s privacy when the database is queried privately. Recently, a variety of practical QPQ protoco...

    Liang-Yuan Zhao, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Wei Chen, Yong-Jun Qian in Scientific Reports (2017)

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    A buried Neolithic paddy soil reveals loss of microbial functional diversity after modern rice cultivation

    It has been documented that human activities are causing the rapid loss of taxonomic, phylogenetic, genetic and functional diversity in soils. However, it remains unclear how modern intensive rice cultivation ...

    Yong-Guan Zhu, Jian-Qiang Su, Zhihong Cao, Kai Xue, John Quensen in Science Bulletin (2016)

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    Experimental demonstration on the deterministic quantum key distribution based on entangled photons

    As an important resource, entanglement light source has been used in develo** quantum information technologies, such as quantum key distribution(QKD). There are few experiments implementing entanglement-base...

    Hua Chen, Zhi-Yuan Zhou, Alaa Jabbar Jumaah Zangana, Zhen-Qiang Yin in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Randomness determines practical security of BB84 quantum key distribution

    Unconditional security of the BB84 quantum key distribution protocol has been proved by exploiting the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics, but the practical quantum key distribution system maybe hacked by c...

    Hong-Wei Li, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Shuang Wang, Yong-Jun Qian, Wei Chen in Scientific Reports (2015)

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    Oxalic acid and sclerotial differentiation of Polyporus umbellatus

    The present investigation aimed to uncover the effects of exogenous oxalic acid during the sclerotial formation of Polyporus umbellatus, with an emphasis on determining the content of the endogenic oxalic acid in...

    Yong-Mei **ng, Wan-Qiang Yin, Meng-Meng Liu, Chun-Lan Wang in Scientific Reports (2015)

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    Security of modified **-Pong protocol in noisy and lossy channel

    The “**-Pong” (PP) protocol is a two-way quantum key protocol based on entanglement. In this protocol, Bob prepares one maximally entangled pair of qubits and sends one qubit to Alice. Then, Alice performs s...

    Yun-Guang Han, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Hong-Wei Li, Wei Chen, Shuang Wang in Scientific Reports (2014)

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    Proof-of-principle experiment of reference-frame-independent quantum key distribution with phase coding

    We have demonstrated a proof-of-principle experiment of reference-frame-independent phase coding quantum key distribution (RFI-QKD) over an 80-km optical fiber. After considering the finite-key bound, we still...

    Wen-Ye Liang, Shuang Wang, Hong-Wei Li, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Wei Chen in Scientific Reports (2014)