Sep 30, 2014
Waste oil (gutter oil) is an important Chinese option for biodiesel but its quality and adulteration with inferior oil is difficult to detect. Professor Honbgin DING and coworkers at Dalian University of Technology have developed a laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy...
Sep 29, 2014
With this nomination, USTC is at the ranks of Peking U., Tsinghua U., Jiaotong U. etc. USTC, located in Hefei (Anhui Province), has produced some 50.000 graduates and 36 members of the CAS. The campus hosts the National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory and the Hefei...
Sep 28, 2014
The consumption of narcotics is generally on the rise and considered grim. Half of the drug abusers are under age 35. Medical drug abuse is low and declining, but synthetic drug consumption, with a preference for “ice” (metamphetamine) is 80 % of total and rose 42 %...
Sep 25, 2014
The allotetraploid genome consists of 100 chromosomes and is 1,7 Mb in size. It contains over 52000 functional genes. As carp is the most extensively farmed fish, it is expected that this work contributes to breeding. Partners were the Chinese Academy of Fishery,...
Sep 24, 2014
The “Innovation Team” headed by Duanqing Pei consists of five departments and will work for a period of 10 years. The focus is on differentiation of regulatory networks and mechanisms of reprogramming somatic cells. Financial support is from the host institute and...
