Waste oil will stimulate change to biokerosene

China presently consumes over 2 billion tons of aviation fuel per year. IATA preducts that by 2020 bio-kerosene will reach 30 % oft he total aviation fuel. Recently, Sinopec at its Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Branch has also expanded the production of bio-aviation...

NNSF Foundation funded projects of nearly 27 billion Yuan in 2016

In 2016, the National Natural Science Foundation (NNSF) funded 41,184 projects, with a total funding for equipment, materials, travel costs and other direct costs 22.706 billion Yuan. Indirect costs for for project organization were 4.1 billion Yuan. in 2016, the...

Nanjing will build China’s largest human genome sequencing center

The Nanjing Yangzi state investment group will create a laboratory with a total area of ​​200,000 m2 and settle China’s first national health medical data center in this location. At present, the center has 10 Hiseq X-ten high-throughput sequencers in operation....