China assembles first amphibious aircraft, receives 17 domestic orders

Built by China Aviation Industry General Aircraft Co., the AG-600 can carry 50 people during a maritime search and rescue mission. To extinguish forest fires, it can take on 12 metric tons of water from a lake or sea within 20 seconds and pour it on the fire. Powered...

CAS Institute of Oceanography solves sea cucumber genome

20 varietis of edible sea cucumbers are currently bred in China. Farming area is 215,000 hectares, total output is 194,000 tons with a value of nearly 30 billion yuan (5 bill €), accounting for about 15% of the annual mariculture output. It is expected that genomic...

Korean-Chinese team breed “super-muscle” transgenic pig

Using gene editing technologies, the groups of Jin-Soo KIM at Seoul National University and of Xi-Jun JIN at Yanbian University succeeded to breed “double-muscular type” pigs by inserting the gene for myostatin expression derived from Belgian blue cattle into a...