China’s CO2 emissions gradually decline

According to the 2018 World Eco-Environment Remote Monitoring Report released by the Ministry of Science and Technology, CO2 emission intensity per unit GDP of China decreased by 46% between 2005 and 2017. Since 2013, there was nearly no growth in CO2 emissions in...

CAS QIBEBT develops big-data mining tools for microbiome research

The group of SU Xiaoquan at CAS QIBEBT has established a “microbiome search engine” which is based on two indices: a microbiome novelty score MNS evaluates the compositional uniqueness of a microbiome sample at the time of its birth, whereas a microbiome...

China’s Tokamak claims stable fusion breakthrough

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in Hefei, East China’s Anhui province claims to have reached for the first time a plasma central electron temperature of 100 million C, the ignition temperature of nuclear fusion. China designed and...

Longevity might be related to high autophagy competence

Autophagy is a mechanism to selectively degrade damaged proteins from cells and organelles in the lysosome. A research group at CAS Institute of Zoology has investigated peripheral blood leukocyte transcriptome data of 171 longevity families in Hainan (centenarians,...