Located in Beijing’s Zhongguancun Life Science Park, the building uses over 100 super large refrigerators running at -66°C. China currently has 70,000 new leukemia patients each year, half of whom are children. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is an effective treatment for leukemia , but success depends on whether the transplant between donors and patients with HLA ( human leukocyte histocompatibility antigen ) matches

China Bio news release, May 14, 2014

By introducing enzyme technology, it is hoped to reduce water pollution, energy consumption and to increase profits.

China Bio news release, May 13, 2014

The product can be used for the treatment of viral hepatitis, cancer and acute infectious diseases and will compete with Tonghua Dongbao’s PEGasys and Roche’s and Scheering-Plough’s products

China Bio news release, May 13, 2014

On display are large-format images and video clips from cutting-edge science projects on nano technology, such as green printing, diagnosis and treatment integration and oncology drugs. MPS has 33 partner groups in China and about 800 researchers are interchanged per year.

CAS news release, May 13, 2014

The ethylene tetrafluoroethylene-based membrane is transparent, tough, impact resistant and longliving. It has been used for London’s “Garden-of-Eden” and Munich’s Allianz-Arena. China Railway will use this material for the first time at its high-speed rail station at the Beijing-Tianjin line Jiabao station at a dimension of 143 m x 82 m.

China Bio news release, May 12, 2014

The group of CHEN Zugen solved the sequence of the Gram-positive thermo-acidophilic strain, originally isolated in Yunnan province, and found open-reading frames for many hydrolytic enzymes. The strain is related to Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius DSM446.

CAS news release, May 12, 2014

The team around WENG Yuxiang from CAS Institute of Biophysics and CHANG Zhengyi from Peking University studied the dynamics of DegP, an E. coli heat-shock protein. Using the behaviour of several enzyme mutants as controls, the dynamics of DegP hexamer disassembly were clarified.

CAS news release, May 9, 2014

The Shuanghu-based station will monitor weather, glaciers and pastures and study grass output and quality

CAS news release, May 9, 2014

Part of the 118 million yuan business was Suntory’s Oolong tea drink

China Bio news release, May 8, 2014

According to Weichen SHI, Chairman of China’s Fermentation Industry Association, major products such as yeast , amino acids, organic acids and enzymes continued a double-digit growth. Starch sugar production was about half (12 million tons), amino acid production 4 million tons, organic acids 1,6 million tons, polyol production 1.6 million tons, and enzyme production 1.1 million tons. Exports showed significant growth with 3.28 million tons, an increase of 13.2 % over 2012.

China Bio news release, May 8, 2014

The demonstration plant, developed by Sinopec, Shanghai Research Institute of Petrochemistry and Nanjing University of Technology was OKed by the National Development and Reform Commission.

China Bio news release, May 7, 2014

In food packaging, total output value is expected at 600 billion Yuan (about 70 billion €) for the period of 2011 – 2015 (5 years). Paper packaging will contribute 36 million tons by 2015, plastic packaging 9,5 million, metal packaging 4,9 and glass packaging 15,5 million. 1.2 million sets of packaging machinery will be available by 2015. As a consequence, the China Plastic Film Industry Association decided to implement a product registration system from May 1st, 2014, to strengthen brand building.

China Bio news release, May 6, 2014

According to Bio Valley Founder ZHANG Bao, China’s market for these products is 20 billion yuan , of which 13 billion yuan are reagents. Per capita consumption of diagnostic products is only about $ 2, as compared to $ 25-30 in developed countries. Roche , Siemens, Abbott, Beckman Coulter , BD and Sysmex account for 60% of domestic IVD market share. Mindray and Kehua are the Chinese leaders. With a tendency to improved quality of life, the size of the market is expected to exceed 30 billion yuan by 2015.

China Bio news release, May 5, 2014

According to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce, the export of Chinese pharmaceuticals to emerging markets such as Australasia, ASEAN, Russia and other countries grew as much as 20 % last year. The number of EU CEP-certified products rose by 56 % in 2013, reacing a total number of 428, and US-approved DMP files reached 1116.

China Bio news release, May 5, 2014

The center, staffed with about 200 academic researchers, will focus on nutrition and health, biotechnology, animal nutrition and other areas.

China Bio news release, May 4, 2014

The group around Dr HUANG Yanyi developed a microfluidic method to prepare sufficient cDNA from the RNA of single mouse embryonic cells for transcriptome analysis.

China Bio news release, April 4, 2014

Novozymes operates a major production and development center at TEDA since 1994, producing industrial enzymes and recombinant hyaluronic acid.

China Bio news release, April 30, 2014

The alliance comprises 16 Chinese enzyme companies, six universities and five research institutes, mainly from CAS, with major support from CAS Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnolgoy (Professor MA Yanhe). The focus will be on independent technology and IP.

China Bio news release, April 30, 2014

The group around Prof. HU Hanhua found that methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase regulates triacylglycerol accumulation in the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum, up to a level of 40 – 60 % of lipid production

CAS news release, April 29, 2014

According to an analysis of the Shandong Institute of Environmental Sciences, China’s natural gas demand of 400 billion m3 in 2030 will be filled by 200 billion m3 of national production, 150 billion m3 of imports and 50 billion m3 of biogas produced from biomass and organic waste.

China Industrial Biotechnology Network, April 28, 2014