Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB) elects GAO Fu as chairman

The Society, established in 2008 and by now comprising 13 countries and regions including Taiwan, Japan and Korea, has elected Mr Fu GAO (“George Fu Gao”). Mr Gao is Director of the CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology at the CAS Institute of...

CAS QIBEBT team applies genome editing to microalgae

The group of Jian XU and colleagues at the Single Cell Center of QIBEBT has established a CRISPR/Cas9-based precise genome editing approach for the oleaginous microalga Nannochloropsis oceanica, using the deletion of nitrate reductase (NR; g7988) as example. Mutants...