China’s largest biobank opens in Shanghai

The Zhangjiang Biobank has a storage capacity for 10 million samples of tissue, cells, organs, blood samples and other. It will also store 500,000 tumor tissue samples presently held in Shanghai’s National Engineering Research Center. The Zhangjiang Biobank will also...

Chinese-French oceanographic satellite to be launched in 2018

The satellite named CFOSAT will operate in an orbit of 500 km for 3 years. It will be equipped with a surface-wave monitoring radar developed in France, which is already delivered, and a wind scatterometer developed in China. The satellite will analyze the wind and...

China develops unmanned boats for coastal survey

Along a coastal line of 18,000 km, China is initiating the first unmanned boats „Jianghai“ to collect data and take videos. Jinghai No. 3 is 6.28 meters long and 2.86 meters wide, with a load capacity of 2.6 tonnes and a cruising power of 200 nautical miles. It can...