Qatar and China cooperate in digital water-saving irrigation

An irrigation system developed by Ningxia University includes technologies and equipment involving wind-solar-powered water extraction, underground seeping pipes and a control software system operated on smartphones. It has been alredy applied over a total area of...

Synthetic biology turns E. coli into a methylotroph

The team of James C. LIAO at the Institute of Biological Chemistry of Academica Sinica in Taipei, Republic of China, has reprogrammed E. coli using metabolic robustness criteria followed by laboratory evolution to establish a strain that can efficiently utilize...