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Chinese hybrid wheat grows along the silk road
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China signs MOUs with six countries on polar research cooperation.
The countries are Argentina, Chile, Germany, Norway, Russia and the United States, and the cooperation will be in fields such as site inspection, scientific research, logistic support, environmental protection and management, personnel exchanges, policy planning and education.
CAS news release, May 26, 2017
China steps up international polar research cooperation
The Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration (CAAA) signed MOUs with 6 polar research institutes, from Argentina, Chile, Germany, Norway, Russia and the United States, to step up cooperation in site inspection, scientific research, logistic support, environmental protection and management, personnel exchanges, policy planning and education.
CAS news release, May 26, 2017
CAS opens Shanghai Institute of Biotechnology Industrial Park in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province
The center will be focused on new drug developments and manufacturing, using the competences of the Ningbo Institute of Drug Research as a core function. In addition, development of novel medical equipment will be of central interest. Total investments are planned at 4.85 billion yuan (650 million €).
China Bio news release, May 24, 2017
China’s Beidou satellite system goes global by 2020
According to LI Wang, chairman of China’s Satellite Navigation System Committee, China will launch some 18 Beidou navigation satellites by 2018. Six to eight Beidou satellites will be sent into orbit in the second half of 2017. The Beidou (North Star) satellite navigation system will be able to provide services for countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative by 2018. By 2020, the Beidou satellites will form a complete global satellite navigation system. The output value of China’s satellite navigation and locating services totaled 210 billion yuan (30 billion €) in 2016, with the Beidou system contributing more than 30 percent of the total value.
CAS news release, May 24, 2017
Chinese group produces graphene from corn stalks
A joint team of Heilongjiang University, FU Honggang, and the Jinan Shengquan Group have found a procedure to prepare graphene from corn cob cellulose. The production line allows for an output of 100 t/y and will be further scaled-up. China produces 100 million tons of corn cobs per year, mostly in Shandong, Hebei aund Liaoning province.
China Bio news release, May 23, 2017
China launches fully automated cryogenic cell storage center in Shanghai
On May 18, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital inaugurated the “Long March Cell Clinical Research Center”, a joint military and civilian unit. The center comprises a fertility preservation center” which stores ovarian tissue and eggs and provides 3 years of free preservation of perinatal cell for each baby born here. Immune cells of cancer patients are stored for treatment of refractory tumors. And pancreatic cells are stored for later islet cell transplantation in case diabetes develops – a procedure already tested successfully on 7 patients.”
China Bio news release, May 23, 2017
Nanjing group isolates Clostridium strain which forms n-butanol and isopropanol/acetone from xylose
The group of JIANG Min at Nanjing Tech University has isolated Clostridium strain NJP7 which, in an optimized medium containing vitamin B3, forms 2.06 g/L n-butanol and 054 g/L of isopropyl alcohol during simultaneous saccharification of hemicellulose and fermentation.
China Bio news release, May 22, 2017
Wo Yuan Biotechnolog Co. gets approval for clinical trial on recombinant human serum albumin (rHSA) produced in transgenic rice
The startup company, located in Wuhan Optical Valley in Hubei Province, claims to have achieved yields of 10 g/kg of rice at a purity of 99,9999 %. A clinical trial is planned from August 2017 at Beijing Tongren Hospital. Presently, the output of rHSA by the company is limited to 1 t/y, but construction of a plant at Xiantao is planned which would provide 40 t of rHSA by 2020. China’s annual demand of HSA is estimated at 420 t, bot domestic production from blood plasma is only about 100 t.
China Bio news release, May 18, 2017
China to support a Kenya biodiversity project with Sh300 million (2.6 million €)
Under the collaborative program between the National Museums of Kenya and the CAS SINO-Africa Joint Research Center, Kenyo will document and categorize in detail more than 7000 indigenous plant species as an online resource
CAS news release, May 19, 2017
China sets up National Laboratory on Brain Intelligent Technology and Application
As approved by the National Development and Reform Commission in January 2017, the laboratory will be organized by CAS’ University of Science and Technology in Hebei but will also have units at Fudan University, Shenyang Institute of Automation, CAS Institute of Microelectronics and Baidu Co. The focus will be on artificial intelligence, on brain-like brain chips, brain-like intelligent robots and other emerging technologies.
China Bio news release, May 16, 2017
CAS Hefei Institute of Physical Science develops portable kit for drug detection
The grou of Lingbao YANG at the institute of Intelligent Machines (IIM) has developed a portable kit for detection of drugs such as heroin, methamphetamine etc. in human urine. The kit consists of 4 parts: a pretreatment module, an enhanced chip module, an intelligent identification module and a spectrometer module which is based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). The system will now be tested in Anhui Province and eventually in public security units around the whole country.
CAS news release, May 16, 2017
MOST publishes “135” master plan for biotechnology
Thematically, the focus for the next 5 years will be on so-called “subversive technologies” such as genome editing and interdisciplinary fields such as artificial intelligence. Key programs will be on biomedicine, bioresources utilization and highly integrated biosecurity threat defense system. China wants to become a leader in biotechnology by strengthening biotech innovation alliances, e. g., in the Beijing Tianjin Hebei area, in the Yantze River and in the Pearl River Deltas. Strategic resources such as gene centers or strain/tissue collection centers will be built, preferentially in specialized parks within national high-tech parks, and a biotech technology transfer service system aims at a biotech contract turnover of over 100 billion Yuan.
China Bio news release, May 15, 2017
CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics prepares Au-CeOx catalyst for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction
The group around Xin BAO has designed and prepared Au-CeOx catalysts based on Au nanoparticles. Density functional theory calculations showed that the Au-CeOx interface contributes to the stabilization of the key intermediate species, *COOH, during the subsequent hydrogenation process, thereby promoting the formation and desorption of carbon monoxide. At -0.89 V (vs. RHE), the Faraday efficiency of carbon monoxide formation of such Au-CeOx catalyst was 89.1%.
CAS news release, May 12, 2017
Beijing University for Aeronautics and Astronautics sets up „Lunar Palace 1“, a simulated space cabin for 8 volunteers
The device consists of a major living space and two plant greenhouses.” The major cabin covers 42 square meters the size of a very small urban apartment while each of the plant cabins is 3.5 meters high and 50 to 60 square meters in area. The major cabin hosts four bed cubicles, a common room, a washroom, a waste-treatment room and an animal-raising room. Eight Chinese volunteers will live in “Yuegong-1,” a simulated space “cabin for the next year, all civilians and elite postgraduate students from Beihang University. The first four two men and two women, will stay in the cabin for 60 days, then be replaced by the second group, also two men and two women, who will stay there for 200 days. After that, the first group will return for the remaining 105 days. The purpose of the new program is to test the stability of the BLSS when astronauts with different metabolic rates take turns to live in the cabin and when they face sudden situations such as blackouts.”
CAS news release, May 11, 2017