State Council: stem cell research will be strengthened

In the coming 5 years’ plan of MOST, the following topics will be pursued: 1. pluripotent stem cell dry maintenance. Genealogy, development of lineage markers, cell type conversion molecular modeling and gene regulation patterns. 2. The organization of obtaining stem...

Chinese patent applications number 4 at European Patent Office

According to EPO’s president Benoit Battistelli, among the 2014 274174 patent applications, Chinese applicants ranked number 4 after the USA, Japan and Germany, an increase of 18.2 % vs. 2013. Among the granted 64.000 patents in 2014, the Chinese share was only 2 %....