According to the Ministry of Agriculture, cheap imports have hurt Chinese sugar producers considerably. As a consequence, the government considers to introduce stronger regulations on imports and start agricultural promotion programs China Bio news release, Sept. 30,...
When a queen bee dies, her daughters select a lucky egg and feed it with royal jelly in hope of creating a suitable replacement. But the egg doesn’t always hatch. When that happens, the bee colony enters a state of anarchy, and a third of the workers starts laying...
In experiments with undifferentiated stem cells, the group of PEI Duanqing found that c-Jun, a well-known transcription factor and oncogen, resulted in the differentiation of embryonic stem cells but inhibited reprogramming of somatic cells cultured with the „Yamanaka...
The system developed by the group of MA Yanhe is based on the construction of a mutant library of Pichia anomala followed by protoplast fusion of fluorescence-labeled mutants and a chromogenic assay for high sugar alcohol producers. High-performance producers of D-...