FAST radiotelescope in Guiyang officially in operation
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a single-dish telescope with a diameter of half a kilometer and a receiving area equivalent to about 30 football fields, was officially taken in operation. It is located in a naturally deep and round karst depression in Southwest China’s Guizhou province.
Xinhua news release, January 13, 2020
CAS Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biology selected a COMSATS Center for International Technology Excellence
CAS TIB was elected the 22nd International Centre of Excellence in Science and Technology at COMSATS, and will host COMSATS Coordination Committee meeting in 2019. CAS TIB is actively preparing for the establishment of a National Synthetic Biotechnology Innovation...
CFDA approves China’s first antisense drug
CT102 is an antisense nucleic acid drug targeting the IGF1R gene involved in liver cancer. The drug was jointly developed by WANG Shengqi, a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences, and Hangzhou Tianlong Pharmaceutical Co. China is a country with a high...
China’s first „test-tube dogs“ born in Beijing
Sino Valley Technology Co. has reported the birth oft he first in vitro fertilized dogs in China, 2 male dogs and 4 female puppets. The company has successively established canine somatic cell lines, acquired mature oocytes, done somatic cell nuclear transfer and...
CAS Institute of Chemistry: improved catalyst for hydrogen production
Yuliang LI and colleagues from the CAS Institute of Chemistry have found a new catalyst for hydrogen production from water. They used graphdiyne and molybdenum disulfide as a catalyst and found it in alkaline media even superior to Pt/C. The high intrinsic activity...
China features two sequencing giants among global top 10
According to an article in Genetic Engineering News (GEN), Shenzhen’s BGI and Suzhou’s Genewiz rank 3 and 8 in sales among the top 10 global sequencing companies. On top are Illumina and Thermo Fisher. GEN news release, April 13, 2018
Telomerase-based contrast agent helps cancer diagnosis and surgical navigation
ZHANG Zhongping and colleagues at CAS Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences have developed a spherical nucleic acid beacon (SNAB) probe based on specific double-stranded DNA tagged with biocompatible Au nanoparticles which binds to telomerase, a hallmark of rapidly...
CAS QIBEBT team improves graphdiyne (GD)-based solar cells
JIU Tonggang's group from CAS Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) has developed a dual doping GD into electron transport layers of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), and reached a certified power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 20%. The...
China launches joint laboratories in ASEAN countries
At the China-ASEAN Innovation Forum held in Beijing, WANG Zhigang, China's minister of science and technology (MOST) reported that joint laboratories include the China-Indonesia joint laboratory for high temperature gas cooled reactors, the China-Thailand railway...
China has nearly 100 million patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD)
According to a Lancet publication on China Adult Lung Health Research” completed by Chinese scholars, the prevalence of COPD in adults aged 20 years and over in China is 8.6%, 13.7% in patients over 40 years of age, and in people over 60 years of age over 27%. The...
Tsinghua Group solves structure of a photosystem-I light-harvesting (LHCR) complex using cryo-EM
SUI Senfang and colleagues from Tsinghua University revealed the structure of a PSI-LHCR from a red alga Cyanidioschyzon merolae by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) at a resolution of 3.63 Å. It has two forms of the PSI-LHCR supercomplex, one with 3...
Heart-on-a-chip” device will aid in drug screening”
ZHAO Yuanjin and colleagues from the state key laboratory of bioelectronics at China's Southeast University have developed a heart-on-a-chip" device to mimic the beat and contraction of cardiac muscle cells in vitro. The concept is based on a colored hydrogel which is...
China opens a satellite navigation center in Tunisia
The center is established as a pilot project between China and the Tunisia-based Arab Information and Communication Technology Organization (AICTO), an Arab governmental organization under the Arab League. The center is the first overseas base for China's BeiDou...