Formed in 1999 and listed in 2000, Long Ping HighTech is China’s largest and most advanced seed company, with sales of Long ping High-Tech has a focus on new crops variety breeding or innovation; seeds multiplication; seeds sales and extension system of hybrid rice, hybrid pepper, hybrid rape, hybrid corn, hybrid cotton, musk melon and vegetables with high quality etc .Till the end of 2004, the total assets of Long ping High-Tech has reached at 1.2 billion yuan, and the sales revenue has reached at 1 billion yuan.

China Bio news release, March 11, 2014

Muyang Group is specialized in feed and food machinery with a Chinese market share of 50 %. It has about 4.500 employees. The Denmark expansion is planned to test equipment for biomass to energy conversion.

China Bio news release, March 11, 2014

Based on developments by Peking University and CAAS Institute of Biotechnology, glyphosate-resistant corn was developed based on a proprietary G2-EPSPS gene. After approval by the Ministry of Agriculture in 2012, several rounds of breeding were done since and it is expected that several transgenic corn varieties with improved traits will be widely planted within 2 – 3 years.

China Bio news release, March 10, 2014

The group of Jing LI has optimized carbon flux in s. cerevisiae with a focus on betulinic acid and fatty acid pathways to increase the yield of betulinic acid to a significant level.

CAS news release, March 8, 2014

B cell lymphoma cells overexpress BTK kinase. In collaboration with Harvard Medical School, a team around Chao WANG found an inhibitor QL47 which strongly inhibits this tyrosine kinase leading to strong inhibition of cell proliferation.

CAS news release, July 7, 2014

The sugar is isolated from Flos sophorae immaturus and purified to “good quality”.

CAS Bio news release, March 7, 2014

In collaboration with CAS Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, researchers around Liangxue LAI developed Tibet mini-pig mutants which will develop amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) within a few months. To this end, a mutant human SOD1 gene was expressed using somatic cell nuclear transfer. The pigs will be used to study the mechanism and therapy of this disease.

Huaqiang YANG et al., Cell Research 2014, doi 10.1038/cr.2014.25

Using transcriptomics, the group around Dr Chaoguang TIAN found out that arabinose induces various transporters, transcription factors and enzymes well, but not xylose. Several new factors such as glucose transfer protein (GLT-1), pentose transporterx XYT-1 and XAT-1) and a xylanase regulatory factor (HCR-1) were identified which may help to enhance the metabolism of xylose in this organism

CAS news release, March 7, 2014

Shanxi Sequoia Co. is engaged in biomedical R&D with a focus on Taxol. It owns thousands of acres of yew trees in Shanxi. Cardium Therapeutics has its focus on the treatment of cardiovascular disease and vascular regeneration, including wound healing and tissue engineering.

China Bio news release, March 6, 2014

The group of Lijian HUI at CAS SIBS Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology succeeded to obtain hepatocytes from fibroblasts by introducing three transcription factors which induced activities such as glycogen storage, secretion of albumin, drug metabolism and biliary excretion.

CAS news release, March 6, 2014

In an attempt to identify breeding targets for bioethanol production at elevated temperature, a team around Qian CHEN analyzed thermotolerant yeast strain M206111 transcriptomics during ethanol production above 37 °C. Parameters relevant to bioethanol production, e. g., trehalose accumulation and heat shock protein production, were identified.

Qian CHEN et al., Annals of Microbiology, 2013,4 (63) :1433-1440

According to the China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Planning Institute, Chinese coal consumption will reach 4.1 billion tons in 2020, accounting for 58,5 % of total energy consumption.

China Bio news release, March 5, 2014

China’s Cotton Research Institute, CAS, has registered over 300 varieties. All transgenic cotton in China is of domestic origin and considered to be of world-leading quality.

CAS news release, March 4, 2014

The group around Xiurong ZHANG reports a high-quality genome sequence of the 2.1 Mb genome, containing an estimated 27,148 genes. The results reveal novel, independent whole genome duplication. Candidate genes and oil biosynthetic pathways contributing to high oil content were discovered by comparative genomic and transcriptomic analyses.

Linhai WANG et al., Genome Biology doi:10.1186/gb-2014-15-2-r39

Barley is the Tibetian staple food, accounting for 70% of the acreage of grain crops in Tibet, with 10.6 million planted acres and an annual production of over 660,000 tons. Resequencing of an ancient Tibetian barley variety led to a genome size around 4.5Gb with a total of 39,197 protein-coding genes.

China Bio news release, March 3, 2014

Total capacity is said to be 1 billion doses per year under a revised pharmaceutical GMP, according to WHO standards. Smallpox is eradicated, since 2000, China is polio-free, and children under 5 years carrying the hepatitis B surface antigen was down to 0.96 % in 2006. Chengdu Institute of Biological Products is among the WHO-classified laboratories for the production of live attenuated Japanese encephalitis vaccine.

China Bio news release, March 3, 2014

The group of Professor ZHANG Xueli has announced that through combined engineering of MEP, β-carotene synthesis, TCA, pentose phosphate and ATP synthesis modules, a genetically stable Escherichia coli strain was obtained which exhibited 74-fold yield increase over the wild type. This strain produced 2.1 g/L β-carotene with a yield of 60 mg/g.

CAS news release, March 3, 2014

The group of Professor Tingting TANG developed a multiphase porous bioceramics from cuttlefish bone which was successfully used in heterologous bone tissue transplantation.

China Bio news release, March 3, 2014

Since January 2, 2014, GM-labeled food is offered at specially labeled counters in a supermarket in Lanzhou, Gansu province. The program is considered to help consumers make a choice between GM- and non-GM-food such as salad oil offered side by side. The idea is to discuss GM-related issues with consumers, to improve on the current GM food labeling , and to offer consumers a free choice.

China Bio news release, March 3, 2014

Samples of birth defects number close to 13.000, and genetic data over 5.000. The number of birth defects in China is about 5.6 %, with an annual increase of about 900.000. Mr ZHANG Yong, head of the National Gene Bank, hopes to elucidate origin of birth defects by genetic and sample collection throughout China.

China Bio news release, March 2, 2014