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...