May 27, 2014
China operates large breeding programs and is a leader in hybrid technology, e. g. in “super rice” varieties which are cultivated on some 1 million mu (~70.000 ha). Transgenic cotton is planted on 4,6 million mu (~300.000 ha), and disease-resistant high-quality wheat,...
May 25, 2014
Coal-derived methanol is a new commodity in Western Chinese states such as Shanxi, and the government pushes the addition of methanol to car fuel. In the city of Jinzhong, 150 methanol taxis have made 5.8 million km in one year, consuming 700,000 liters of methanol....
May 25, 2014
By various steps of metabolic engineering, and by building reducing power on NADPH, succinic acid conversion rate in an engineered E. coli strain improved from 1.12 to 1.5 mol/mol glucose (88% of the theoretical maximum conversion rate) CAS news release, May 25,...
May 24, 2014
The center in Zhangjiang High-Tech Park, constrcuted for 700 million Yuan, will focus on health-related protein science including stem cell technology, and provide skills in protein preparation, structure analysis, database establishment and computerized processing....
May 22, 2014
The 259 State Key Laboratories, often cooperative laboratories among the CAS and universities, will be supported in 2014 by 3.05 billion Yuan (495 million USD), of which 1/3 is for equipment and upgrades. CAS news release, May 22, 2014
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