Chinese scientist explores plant factory in Antarctica

Dr HU Miao, a medical doctor from Tongji University Oriental Hospital, serving since December 2019 at China’s Great Wall station on King George Island in Antarctica, has started to grow vegetables such as cucumbers and Pak Choi in a home-built plant factory there. In...

Two Chinese companies display COVID-19 vaccines at International Fair

During the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing this weekend, China National Biotec Group (CNBG) and Sinovac Biotech presented their candidate COVID-19 inactivated virus vaccines at the opening ceremony. Sinavac has reportedly kicked off...

China’s R&D spending in 2019 rose another 0.1% to 2.23% of GDP

According to the National Bureau of Statistics, R&D spending in 2019 was 2.214 trillion CN¥ or about 320 billion US$. Investment in basic researcb accounted to 6% of total, company expenditure on R&D was 76.4%. Xinhua news release, August 27,...

Injectable hydrogel accelerates wound healing in mice

A consortium around Xiaoli ZHAO at CAS Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technologies prepared a hydrogel composed of catechol-modified quaternized chitosan and poly(d,l-lactide)-poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(d,l-lactide, loaded with bioactive glass. When the hydrogel...