China plans to build a rare diseases registration system by 2020

As to ZHANG Shuyang, vice president of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, by 2020 China will have included 59 types of orphan diseases into its registration system. At present, there are about 7,000 rare diseases recognized internationally, accounting for about...

China-US team stabilizes PLA by simple heating

A joint team of Jiangnan University in Wuxi and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln found that when PLA fiber is first heated to 200 C followed by slow cooling, the heat resistance of the resulting intertwined complex has improved to > 200 C, and structural integrity...