The program, which is still in the planning stage and not financed, will focus on sequencing of eukaryotic populations, including all plants, animals and single cell organisms. In a first step the genomes of about 9330 eukaryotic families will be refined to obtain a...
Chang’e 5, China’s newest lunar probe, is scheduled to bring 2 kilograms of lunar soil and rock samples back to Earth before the end of 2017. The 8.2-metric ton probe has four components, an orbiter, lander, ascender and re-entry module. After the probe...
China’s first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou I is expected to dock with the orbiting Tiangong II space lab three times. It will be sent into space from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan aboard a Long March-7 Y2 carrier rocket. CAS news release, March 6,...
French Prime Minister Cazeneuve participated in the opening ceremony of the laboratory on March 2. In design, it is similar to the French Lyon P4 laboratory. It will provide a complete advanced biosafety system and become China’s infectious disease prevention...
The group of Zhenfang WU has produced nerve growth factor in the salivary glands of transgenic mice. Within a state-funded project, the team explores if saliva from transgenic animals such as pigs might become a commercial production method for therapeutic proteins,...
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