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BGI’s non-invasive prenatal genetic testing NIFTY has been introduced to > 40 Chinese cities and regions

Jun 18, 2015

The prenatal test discovers fetal chromosomal aneuploidy (T21, T18, T13) and needs only 7 days. BGI news release, June 18, 2015

Team at Fudan University develops companion diagnostics for non-small lung cancer (NSLC) treatment

Jun 16, 2015

The group around Du XIANG at Fudan University Cancer Hospital is using the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene as a marker for the early identification of NSLC which support appropriate therapy. China Bio news release, June 16, 2015

CAS SIBS researchers claim progress in muscle stem cell preparation

Jun 15, 2015

The group around HU Ping claims to have found a procedure to grow muscle stem cells in sufficient quantity to heal permanent wounds, in particular those caused externally, e. g., in sports CAS news release, June 15, 2015

CAS-Max-Planck Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai finds genetic region involved in high-altitute adaptation of Tibetians

Jun 15, 2015

By bioinformatics-based population genetics, a 3.4-kb copy number deletion near EPAS1, a hypoxya pathway, was found to be significantly enriched in high-altitude Tibetans. CAS news release, June 15, 2015

Lighthouse Biotechnology Co. develops mass production of trehalose

Jun 12, 2015

The Shanghai-based company has mastered to scale up a procedure which is based on simulating moving bed chromatography separation of starch sugar. China Bio news release, June 12, 2015