The contract was signed by Prof. TAN Tianwei, President of BUCT, and Mr Hepburn, Vice-Chancellor of UBC.

China Bio news release, August 26, 2015

Based on China’s good experience with heat- and insect resistant transgenic cotton which now has 96 % market share in China, the Ministry proposes studies on safety evaluation and management of GEM crops, in view of a growing population and global warming.

China Bio news release, August 26, 2015

The duplex RT-PCR test features an internal reference control and claims an extremely low detection limit

CAS news release, August 26, 2015

A team from Tongji University and various institute of the CAS in Shanghai could show with mouse embryonic fibroblasts in vivo that the addition of 3 – 6 small molecules was enough to transdifferentiate these cells into cardiomyocytes which showed rhythmic contraction, cardiac-specific gene expression and cardiac-like electrophysiological characteristics.

CAS news release, August 25, 2015

The group of ZHANG Ruiping has developed water-soluble melanin-based nanoparticles (MNP) which have been loaded with the anti-cancer drug sorafenib and nuclide 64Cu, permitting tumor PET and PAI bimodal molecular imaging guided chemotherapy.

China Bio news release, August 25, 2015

In cooperation with Foster Wheeler (Hebei) Engineering Co., the Changzhou-based company (常州仁晟生物能源科技有限公司) has established a process which uses waste oil pretreatment followed by hydrogenation, decarbonylation, decarboxylation and isomerization using a novel solid catalyst. The oxygen-free product consists of straight and branched paraffins, has a freezing point of – 50 °C and a cetane number of ≥80. It can be used as aviation biofuel.

China Bio news release, August 25, 2015

Splicosomes are resonsible for correct gene expression and involved in up to 1/3d of genetic disorders. A group around Yingong SHI at Tsinghua University succeeded to solve the x-ray structure of this hitherto elusive group of enzymes. Chinese commentaries consider this finding as relevant for a Nobel prize.

CAS news release, August 24, 2015

The robot “4500 m AUV” built by CAS Shenyang Institute of Automation has been successfully tested at the South China Sea during 15 trials for 35 days, going down to 4.500 m and exploring polymetallic sulphides and other seabed resources.

CAS news release, August 24, 2015

The park will be built in Shenzhen’s “Biovalley” (Dapeng New District) on 100.000 m2 and comprise R & D laboratories, organ transplant hospitals, SPF stations for mini-pigs etc., and training facilities for personnel.

China Bio news release, August 21, 2015

Based on studies at the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology at SIBS, the gene „ERECTA“ was expressed in various plants such as rice and tomato and led to enhanced heat resistance of the crops at 40 °C ambient temperature or higher. First field tests seem to confirm these findings.

CAS news release, August 21, 2015

A mesoporous material, [Cu4(tddb)·(H2O)4]n·(solvent)x, developed by HONG Maochun and YUAN Daqiang at Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter can store around 200 cm3/g of acetylene at ambient conditions and may be a good candidate for safe storage and transportation of acetylene.

CAS news release, August 21, 2015

The JV between Boehringer-Ingelheim and Shanghai Zhangjiang Bio-Pharmaceutical Base Development Co. which offers also contract production of biologics for Chinese companies will start full production by 2017. At present, the plant provides samples for toxicity testing and early clinical studies.

China Bio news release, August 21, 2015

The Chinese market for salmin is about 30.000 – 50.000 t/year. Shandong Oriental Ocean Sci-Tech, a company listed in Shenzhen, has now started to produce salmon in China by aquafarming. Productivity at present is about 800 t/year.

CAS news release, August 20, 2015

In a carbon inventory for fossil fuels and cement production for the period of 200 – 2013, done by CAS and 24 international partners such as Harvard University and others, it was shwon that China’s energy consumption is 10 % higher than the original estimate, but the total amount of carbon emission from coal was 6 % lower than foreseen, and carbon emission from cement production was 40 % lower. The results were published in a “Nature” article “Reduced carbon emission estimates from fossil fuel combustion and cement production in China”.

CAS news release, August 20, 2015

NNSF is the Chinese Agency, under MOST, for financing rather fundamental research. In 2014, 37.612 projects were supported, about half in medicine and in the life sciences.Top recipients were Huazhong Agricultural University and Zhejiang University, followed by China Agricultural University, Nanjing Agricultural University and CAS Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences.

China Bio news release, August 20, 2015

According to a survey by the ministry, mechanization will beincreased to > 80 % by 2020 (present 68 %). Major crops under consideration are rice, corn, wheat, potato, cotton, rapeseed, peanut, soybean and sugar cane.

China Bio news release, August 20, 2015

The group of Xin XIE at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica has found that bromodeoxyuridine can replace Oct4 in mouse embryonic fibroblasts, the most critical factor in the „Yamanaka factors“ used for cell reprogramming.

CAS news release, August 19, 2015

The high-resolution device was developed at the CAS Institute of High-Energy Physics since 2007, and tested in clinical trials since 2014. IP is completely Chinese.

CAS news release, August 19, 2015

The plan calls for the establishment of more and networked regional test laboratories and more tests on pesticides, antibiotics, heavy metals etc. Construction of high-speed transmission and ubiquitous interconnect national agricultural product quality safety monitoring information collection network of national farming, animal husbandry, fisheries-related data visualization” were mentioned as priorities, “to achieve the monitoring program online preparation, monitoring task quick release, rapid test results reporting, monitoring results fast analysis, to provide decision-making information gathering, technical support, guidance and other services for the safe consumption of agricultural products quality and safety monitoring and management. “”

China Bio news release, August 19, 2015

Total biomass in 2010 was 31,3 billion tons, of which 70 % were forests. Tibet had the largest biomass per capita (807 t), Shanghai and Tianjin the least (0,5 t).

CAS news release, August 17, 2015