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He Xionglei, a professor at the School of Life Sciences at Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) in south China's Guangdong Province, has made significant progress with his research group in how chromatin structure regulates DNA mutations. The findings were published in the journal Science, one of the two most influential academic journals in the world, on March 9, according to the official website of SYSU. This is the first time that an academic from SYSU has published a paper in the elite journal.

He, 35, received his bachelor's and master's degrees from SYSU and earned his doctorate at the University of Michigan in the United States. In 2007, He returned to China and was hired as a professor at SYSU, the youngest professor in the history of SYSU.