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Contributed by Professor Chuan-Chou Shen, Department of Geosciences An Asia–Europe international team, led by Professor Chuan-Chou Shen of the Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (NTU), has uncovered the mechanism behind the most dramatic warming and fastest sea-level rise event of the past million years. Published on June 16, 2026, in Nature Communications (1) and chosen as one of the journal's Featured Articles, the findings show that extended weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) resulted in the accumulation of large amounts of heat within the ocean interior. When…
Contributed by: Institute of Oceanography Dr. Raúl Tapia Researchers at National Taiwan University and partner institutions, led by research associate Dr. Raul Tapia and associate professor Sze Ling Ho at the Institute of Oceanography, have uncovered new evidence that Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) — a distinct layer sitting 500–1,500 meters below the ocean surface — played a pivotal role in a major atmospheric CO2 transition that occurred roughly 500,000 years ago. The findings, published in Science Advances, challenge the prevailing view that changes in the deepest layers of the Southern…
Contributed by: Professor Chih-hao Hsieh, Ruo-Yu Pan (Institute of Oceanography) and Professor Chun-Wei Chang (Institute of Fisheries Science) Prof. Chih-hao Hsiehand studentRuo-Yu Panfrom the Institute of Oceanography, together with Prof. Chun-Wei Chang from the Institute of Fishery Sciencesat NTU, led an international research team in developing a new analytical framework based on Empirical Dynamic Modeling. This framework can quantify how response diversity varies over time using time-series data. Published in Nature Communications (May 2026), the study offers the first direct empirical evidence that greater response diversity helps stabilize total community biomass. This breakthrough addresses a longstanding methodological challenge…
Dr. Hsun-Ming Hu, a postdoctoral researcher of the Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University (NTU), along with an international team led by NTU’s Distinguished Professor Shen Chuan-Chou, has made a significant advancement in geochronology by redefining the half-life of uranium-234 with remarkable accuracy. This new measurement extends the range of uranium-thorium dating from 600 to 800 thousand years (ka), greatly enhancing the precision in understanding Earth's climate history and human evolution. This paper was published on October 1, 2025, in the journal Science Advances (1). The uranium-thorium dating method determines…
A new interdisciplinary study, recently published in Nucleic Acids Research (2025), uncovers how accessory proteins influence the growth of protein filaments essential for DNA repair. The research, led by Prof. Hung-Wen Li (Department of Chemistry) and Prof. Peter Chi (Institute of Biochemical Sciences), combines expertise in biophysics and biochemistry to investigate how RAD51, an enzyme central to homologous recombination, assembles on DNA during repair. Their collaboration reflects a growing trend of bridging the physical and life sciences to understand complex cellular mechanisms. A key challenge in studying filament-forming proteins like…
Meiotic recombination generates genetic diversity and promotes proper chromosomal segregation of parental chromosomes. This process requires a set of recombinases polymerized on single-stranded (ss)DNAs called the nucleoprotein filament to undergo homology search and strand exchange between homologous DNAs. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae meiosis, programmed DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are formed by Spo11 to generate 3’-ssDNA tails. Once formed, ssDNA overhangs are rapidly bound by the abundant high-affinity ssDNA-binding protein, Replication protein A (RPA), to protect these ssDNAs from nucleolytic degradations or formation of the higher-order DNA structures. RPA-coated ssDNA substrates are…