The China Association for Science and Technology on Wednesday released the country's 10 most significant advances in 2020 in the life sciences field.

The discovery of the mechanism and regulation of organ aging in humans led by joint research teams from the ISCR including Profs Guanghui Liu and Jing Qu. The ISCR scientist worked together with Prof Weiqi Zhang (Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), and Prof Fuchou Tang (Peking University) systematically invesigated key biomarkers and regulatory targets in mammalian organ aging process. This research discovery deeply improves our current knowledge of organ aging mechanims and lays a solid basis for establishing early alert and prevention strategy for aging and related diseases.

The selection of the top 10 advances in life sciences has been hosted by the association every year since 2015.