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...

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...

CFDA approves China’s first antisense drug

CT102 is an antisense nucleic acid drug targeting the IGF1R gene involved in liver cancer. The drug was jointly developed by WANG Shengqi, a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences, and Hangzhou Tianlong Pharmaceutical Co. China is a country with a high...

CAS Institute of Chemistry: improved catalyst for hydrogen production

Yuliang LI and colleagues from the CAS Institute of Chemistry have found a new catalyst for hydrogen production from water. They used graphdiyne and molybdenum disulfide as a catalyst and found it in alkaline media even superior to Pt/C. The high intrinsic activity...

China’s first „test-tube dogs“ born in Beijing

Sino Valley Technology Co. has reported the birth oft he first in vitro fertilized dogs in China, 2 male dogs and 4 female puppets. The company has successively established canine somatic cell lines, acquired mature oocytes, done somatic cell nuclear transfer and...

China’s Chang’e-4 lunar probe will carry a biosphere

The probe, to be landed on the far side of the moon later this year, will carry a tin containing seeds of potato and Arabidopsis, a small flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard, and probably also some silkworm eggs, to conduct the first biological experiment...

China launches joint laboratories in ASEAN countries

At the China-ASEAN Innovation Forum held in Beijing, WANG Zhigang, China’s minister of science and technology (MOST) reported that joint laboratories include the China-Indonesia joint laboratory for high temperature gas cooled reactors, the China-Thailand...