Beijing University of Sports tests “Smart Ice Field” for 2022 winter Olympics
In Heilongjiang Ice Base Speed Skating Pavilion, a model system acquires exercise information in real time based on AI technology. It automatically tracks the position on ice, draws the trajectory of the run, and calculates a speed-related index. The AI component is based on viewing angle algorithms and full panorama connection technology.
Japan JST China news, January 21, 2020
Chinese team finds high concentrations of seven antibiotics in Chinese lake waters and sediments
A team around SONG Wenjuan from Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, LIN Hui from Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other researchers investigated the occurrence and distribution antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in Chinese and global...
China implements rural milk quality standards
Following an initiative oft he Ministry of Agriculture, China attempts to improve rural milk qualit standards. By now, 15 milk enterprises in China have passed the high-quality milk standard tests which are claimed to be more stringent than current standards of the...
CAS Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology reports progress in Aspergillus niger genome editing
The group around SUN Jibin used a ribosomal 5S rRNA gene as a promoter to mediate the expression of sgRNA in a novel and efficient CRISPR/Cas9 system which enabled Cas9 to cut 100% of the Aspergillus niger genome. This allowed to establish an efficient Aspergillus...
CAS QIBEBT team builds value chains starting from xylose
The group around ZHAO Guang has engineered E. coli to produce a range of value-added chemicals starting from D-xylose, a sugar which makes up about 25 % of biomass. The researchers introduced the xylose metabolism pathway of Caulobacter crescentus into E. coli,...
China implement zero tariff on imported anticancer drugs from May 1st
China has over 3.5 million new cases of cancer every year, and the anti-tumor drug market has exceeded 100 billion yuan, about half of which is imported. In order to meet urgent needs, in recent years, China has introduced a number of policies to encourage and...
CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics has new green process for cyclohexane-based oxygenated chemicals
LI Ning and colleagues have developed a biomimetic route to synthesize pyromellitic acid from lignocellulose. Based on this reagent, a three-component cycloaddition reaction catalyzed by proline using formaldehyde, crotonaldehyde or acrylate/fumarate as raw materials...
CAS QIBEBT researchers synthesize thiazole isoindigo polymers, a promising material for logic circuits
The excellent bipolar conjugated polymer material can both conduct electrons and holes and thus is an interesting base material for organic FETs. WAN Xiaobo and colleagues at QIBEBT used a large hindered base to successfully synthesize the thiazole isoindigo...
President Xi Xinping: China must strive for high-tech self-reliance
During a visit at Optical Valley in Wuhan, president Xi stressed that core technologies that are important to the country should always be fully mastered by the country itself. When visiting FiberHome Telecommunication Technologies Co, a pioneer in the optical...
CAS Institute of Subtropical Agriculture: straw pretreated with urea and nitrate is better digested
The group of ZHANG Xiumin has found that urea+nitrate pretreatment of straw could destroy its physical structure and increase the neutral-detergent soluble content that degrades easily and fast in the rumen. Using wheat and rice straw, such pretreatment increased in...
Group at CAS Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology finds mechanism how C. gluatmicum resists saline-alkali stress
The group of JIN Gongsheng identified four potential Na+/H+ antiporters (Mrp1-2, NhaP and ChaA), and systematically described the physiological adaptation strategies of Corynebacterium glutamicum under saline and alkali stress conditions. They found that the Mrp1...
BGI: a major initiator of the Earth BioGenome Project
The program, launched on April 23, 2018, by an US consortium, https://www.earthbiogenome.org/organization/, plans to decipher the genomes of all known eukaryotic species in the next 10 years, and use genomics techniques to help discover the remaining 80% to 90% of...
China to launch Chang’e-5 lunar probe in 2019
According to PEI Zhaoyu, deputy director of the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), the Chang'e-5 lunar probe will contain four parts: an orbiter, a returner, an ascender and a lander. The lander will put moon...