CAS QIBEBT team improves cellulosome purification and analysis

The group around LIU Yajun at the CAS Institute of Bioenergy and Bioproess Technology achieved directed engineering of cellulosome for in situ purification of the catalytic domain of Cel48S, an exoglucanase, in one step with high purity and full activity. Substantial...

China opens tsunami warning center on the South China Sea

The center, built and managed by China, monitors major earthquake subduction zones — where the Earth plates converge — in the South China, Sulu and Sulawesi seas and provides 24-hour uninterrupted warning services. Until now, services relied on American...

New type of rapeseed oil approved in China

CAAS has approved a novel type of rapeseed oil „Zhong Yusha 1“, obtained from radiation-induced mutagenesis of an African variety of rapeseed. Characteristics are high yield, high oil content and good quality. The tuber seed oil content is 31.3%, which is the oilseed...

Gan Li Pharmaceuticals competes on recombinant insulin markets

The company, which has just started clinical phase III in the USA on glargine, in 2015 ranked 3d in the Chinese insulin market, with 11.2%, behind 53.1% of Nordisk and 26.7% of Sanofi, but has overtaken Eli Lilly (9%). Prices offered by Gan Li are about 20 % under...

East Asia VLBI radio telescope Network starts scientific commission

The network is composed of 21 radio telescopes from China, Japan and South Korea. Some new telescopes are under construction (e.g., a 110 meter telescope in Xinjiang, China) or planned (Thailand VLBI network, the expansion of KVN), continuously enlarging the EAVN...

Shenyang builds Sino-German Northern Drug Valley

Sino-German (Shenyang) High-end Equipment Manufacturing Industry Park Management Committee, Sino-German (Shenyang) International Industry Investment and Development Co., Ltd. and Shenyang Sansheng Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. signed a cooperation agreement. The three...

China takes action in microbiome research

In October 2017, the CAS Institute of Microbiology, jointly with the Microbial Resource Collection Center of 12 countries around the world, announced the co-sponsorship of a collaborative global and indigenous microbial genome sequencing program. The program will...