Chang’e-4’s lunar lander sprouted cotton-seeds for 9 days

In an experiment to popularize space science, sprouting cottonseed was taken up to the moon by China’s Chang’e-4 Lunar Exploration Program on January 3. The payload has a heating system which kept the seed warm for sprouting. When the payload turned...

Genome editing may lead to improved vascular cells

A team from CAS Institute of Biophysics, Institute of Zoology and Peking University has prepared human vascular cells with improved self-renewal and increased resistance to oxidative injury. In human ESC-derived vascular cells, they engineered FOXO3, an evolutionarily...

China announces first graphene national standard

Science Daily reported that China’s first graphene national standard “China’s ninth technical term part 13: graphene and related two-dimensional materials” (GB / T 30544.13-2018 ) was officially announced. According to the standard, graphene...