Beidou network helps develop Inner Mongolia

The regional Beidou network in Inner Mongolia provides positioning, navigation, timing and short message services, allowing, e. g., herdsmen to control water pumps across hundreds of hectars to provide fresh water for their cattle, using remote palm computers. CAS...

China studies ultrafast bullet trains

China develops a next-generation bullet train that can run at 400 kilometers an hour and is suitable for cross-border services. The train will have wheels that can be adjusted to fit various gauges on other countries’ tracks. The train will operate on...

Northwestern Polytech University develops Ebola quick-test

The group of Pavel Neuzil at NPU in Xi’an has developed a palm-size 80 g device based on RT-PCR which detects viral loads of Ebola virus in blood within 37 min. It can be used in remote locations. CAS news release, June 2, 2016

CAS Kunming Institute of Botany produces astaxanthin in Chlorella

Using Chlorella zofingiensis, the group of Junchao HUANG has found at the institute that this organism has all genes for required for the production of astaxanthin through the MEP pathway and that, under stress conditions, these genes are upregulated, leading to the...