November 8, 2021, Dongmin Yin, key laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, Ministry of Education, East China Normal University, published a research paper online in Nature Communications entitled “Dopamine D2 receptor regulates cortical synaptic pruning in rodents”, reveals the cellular and molecular mechanisms of synaptic pruning in the cortex. East China Normal University is the only institution to complete this work. Yaqiang Zhang, Weipeng Lin and Liping Huang, PhD students from the School of Life Sciences, are the co-first authors of this paper, and Professor Dongmin Yin is the corresponding author of this paper. Bing Zhao, a PhD student, and Chengcheng Zhang, a master's student, were involved in the study. Full text links: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-26769-9.