BGI publishs genome study based on over 140,000 Chinese
About 78 percent of all studies about the relationship of gene and diseases are based on European individuals. Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), one of the most prolific global DNA sequencing institutions located in Shenzhen, has now published a study on the genomes of 141,431 Chinese women generated for non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), mostly Han Chinese from China’s East coast. Features include that six genes display significant differences of Chinese people across latitudes, and people from the southern part of China have developed stronger immunity against malaria than those in the north, but a gene related to fatty acid metabolism has a much higher frequency in most of the northern provinces. In addition, people in Gansu and Qinghai provinces, a key area of the Silk Road, share more similar genes with Europeans.
BGI publishs genome study based on over 140,000 Chinese
About 78 percent of all studies about the relationship of gene and diseases are based on European individuals. Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), one of the most prolific global DNA sequencing institutions located in Shenzhen, has now published a study on the genomes...
read moreCAS Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology uses in-vitro multi-enzyme cascade to achieve complete conversion of cellulose
Aresearch team led by researcher YU Wei, a researcher at the In Vitro Synthetic Biology Center of CAS Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, designed an enzymatic phosphate pathway for the stoichiometric conversion of cellulosic biomass using an in vitro...
read moreCAS team finds bamboo shoot fibers to improve insulin sensitivity in mice on a high-fat diet
The group of ZHANG Ping at CAS Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden has studied body weight gain in mice fed with isoenergenic high-fat diets and containing bamboo shoot fiber (BSF) from eitherD. hamiltonii or D. latiforus. They found that bamboo shoot fibers...
read moreSix Chinese military trade companies at largest African Air Aeronatics and Defense Trade Show
At the 10th African Air Aeronautics and Defense Trade Show in Pretoria, among over 300 companies from 37 countries worldwide, there also was a China Defence mission with six military trade companies. Their emergence was widely noticed by the government, military...
read moreNew sensing material detects mercury pollution in real time
A team around YANG Jintao from Zhejiang University of Technology and colleagues from the AS Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering have developed a hydrophilic fluorescent hydrogel‐coated flexible paper/textile film chemosensor which displays a...
read moreCAS DICP achieves 80 % selectivity for coupling of methanol and CO to produce aromatic hydrocarbons
LIU Zhongmin and ZHU Wenliang, at the CAS Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have developed a metal-modified H-ZSM-5 zeolite which showed excellent selectivity for preparing aromatics by coupling methanol and carbon monoxide. China has abundant coal reserves and is...
read moreCAS Institute of Chemistry achieves electrocooling using new organic thermoelectric materials
Electrocooling can be achieved by the Peltier effect with appropriate materials.Using poly(Ni-ett) thin-film devices, a temperature difference of > 40 degrees Celsius was achieved, allowing for electrocooling of organic thermoelectric devices. It is predicted that...
read moreChina boosts science literacy by science museums
The China Association for S&T (CAST) held a World Conference on Science Literacy in Beijing which was attended by over 1,000 scientists and representatives from 38 countries and regions, as well as 23 international scientific organizations and 58 national scientific...
read moreCAS Xishuangbanna Tropical Gardens and others develop “AI Botanical Garden Plan”
The plan involves several botanical gardens throughout China and is first implemented as a test point in Shanghai Botanical Garden, which offers a test base during the 2018 World Artificial Intelligence Competition. Visitors can obtain knowledge about plants by using...
read moreChina opens “virtual satellite ground stations” in 10 countries along the “belt and road”
The Institute of Aerospace Information Research has opened “virtual ground stations” in Mongolia, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Thailand, Venezuela and Belgium. In these 10 countries, the institute's self-developed virtual ground stations...
read moreChina plans for juvenile health improvement using big data
Beijing recently held a symposium on child nutrition and health, and experts agreed that nutritional deficiencies still exist, and the obesity rate continues to rise. Nationwide data are now covered in a public database which include information on average height,...
read moreAmazon and other internationals will establish AI-related innovation centers in Shanghai
At the World AI Conference 2018 in Shanghai, several technology giants announced to establish AI-related centers in Shanghai. Thus, Amazon Web Services, the cloud services platform of Amazon, will establish the Amazon Web Services AI Research Institute here, to...
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