CAS QIBEBT: Raman-based single-cell analysis for carbon storage

Using algae such as Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Nannochloropsis and others, the group of Jian XU at CAS Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioproess Technology (QIBEBT) has succeeded to quantify, label-free, the amount of starch, protein and triacylglycerol in single...

China launches world’s first 30 m resolution global land map

The map is based on recordings in 2015 and has a resolution of 30 m by 30 m per pixel, 100 times clearer than the 300 m by 300 m per pixel resolution of landsat. The map documents that forests, grasslands and desert cover more than 82 % of the area earmarked for the...

Major changes in China’s pharmaceutical market 2018

A review on imminent changes includes: 1. A „two vote“ system for instruments and consumables, 2. Policy support for home-made instruments, 3. Outpatient services will be improved, 4. County-level hospitals will be upgraded, 5. Genetic screening will be reformed 14...

China has launched the „Pig Model Project“ (PMP)

Following an International Forum on Animal Biotechnology, the Chinese Academy of Engineering has announced that the country will launch the international pig model project (PMP, http://www.pigmodel.org). Organized by the Ministry of Science 
and Technology and...

CAS QIBEBT promotes duckweed as a bioremediation plant

The group of ZHOU Gongke at QIBEBT has used molecular biology, cell biology and bioinformatics and other research methods to elucidate the molecular biology of cadmium ion absorption, transport and detoxification in duckweed. The advantage of duckweed bioremediation...