CAS Shanghai SIBS achieves human haploid embryonic stem cells

A group around LI Jinsong and others at the CAS Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences have developed a procedure to obtain haploid parthenogenetic embryos derived from human blastocyst stem cell lines. Haploid human embryonic stem cells have characteristics...

China launches her first commercial remote sensing satellite Jilin-1

Jilin-1 was developed by Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co. Ltd – belonging to the CAS Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics (CIOMP). The 420kg Jilin-1A optical satellite which is in a 656 km orbit is providing images of a maximum full...

Qingdao establishes large biomass-to-energy unit

The project which is jointly managed by CAS QIBEBT, Qingdao Huatong Co. and Qingdao Energy Co. will eventually handle 110,000 tons of biomass/year (straw and vegetable dishes), producing about 660 million cubic meters of natural gas, 2.5 million tons of solid organic...

China’s First Home-grown Maglev in Operation

The first Chinese middle-to-low speed magnetically levitated (maglev) rail line began operating in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province. The maglev shuttles between Changsha’s south railway station and the airport, with one stop in between....