Healthy ageing may be related to composition of gut microbiome

A Canadian-Chinese study on the intestional microbiome of over very healthy 1000 Chinese people, aged from 3 to 100 years, found that a healthy older person is more likely to have a young” intestinal tract microbiome composition. Gut microbe composition of an...

China waits for regulations on several transgenic food products

Examples are a transgenic Yellow River carp, developed by ZHU Zuoyan’s group at the CAS Institute of Hydrobiology. Engineered for a triploid expression of the fish’s growth hormone, it grows 50 – 100 % faster. Taste and ecological behavior are considered equivalent to...