Xiamen University team develops humanized mouse model for hepatitis B

Feb 12, 2019

Previous studies had shown that mesenchymal stem cells from human bone marrow have the potential to differentiate into hepatocyte-like cells in vitro and continue to maintain essential hepatocyte functions after being transplanted into host mouse livers. After HBV...

China attempts to green the Kubuqi desert in Inner Mongolia

Feb 12, 2019

Over the past 30 years, planting shrubs and trees led to greening of over 6000 square kilometers of this desert. Carbon sequestration is now 15.4 million tons, water source recharge is 24,376 million cubic meters, and oxygen release about 18.3 million tons. The region...

Metal-free photocatalyst destroys E. coli in water in 30 minutes

Feb 8, 2019

A team from Yangzhou University, CAS Institute of Process Engineering and the University of Technology in Sydney has developed a mthod which killed model Escherichia coli under visible-light irradiation within 30 min, by using an edge-functionalized graphitic carbon...