Chengdu Spaceon Electronics Co. announces “Beidou Xinhe”, a wearable ECG monitoring product
The “Beidou Xinhe” electrocardiograph is suitable for early arrhythmia screening, chronic disease, and daily ECG monitoring of postoperative patients. On the user-side, it does sensing + data transmission storage + AI interpretation. The ECG data are processed by AI interpretation to complete the evaluation of ECG signal quality and ECG. Data of the sensor, which is worn on the breast, are transmitted via Beidou satellite to a receiving hospital from where the patient is monitored.
Japan JST China news, December 16, 2019
Shanghai group delivers functional protein with poly-lysine functionalized nanodiamonds
The group of SONG Haiyun at CAS SIBS has developed a method based on functionalized nanodiamonds for the oral delivery of RNAse A. Functional RNase A delivered by this procedure caused apoptosis in enterocytes, stimulated regenerative divisions in intestinal stem...
BI opens biopharmaceutical pilot plant in Shanghai
Located in Shanghai Pudong Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, Boehringer Ingelheim's Chinese bio-pharmaceutical production base was officially opened. This is the first multinational pharmaceutical company in China to establish a biopharmaceutical contract production (CMO)...
CAS QIBEBT team doubles lignocellulose degradation by engineering Clostridium thermocellum
The team around Ya-Jun LIU has used a genome editing system to create a recombinant strain of C. thermocellum wich secretes an additional ß-glucanase. The mutant strain showed twofold increased degradation of 100 g/L Avicel in a two-stage saccharification process. The...
Dragonboat Festival
China signs MOUs with six countries on polar research cooperation.
The countries are Argentina, Chile, Germany, Norway, Russia and the United States, and the cooperation will be in fields such as site inspection, scientific research, logistic support, environmental protection and management, personnel exchanges, policy planning and...
China steps up international polar research cooperation
The Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration (CAAA) signed MOUs with 6 polar research institutes, from Argentina, Chile, Germany, Norway, Russia and the United States, to step up cooperation in site inspection, scientific research, logistic support, environmental...
CAS opens Shanghai Institute of Biotechnology Industrial Park in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province
The center will be focused on new drug developments and manufacturing, using the competences of the Ningbo Institute of Drug Research as a core function. In addition, development of novel medical equipment will be of central interest. Total investments are planned at...
China’s Beidou satellite system goes global by 2020
According to LI Wang, chairman of China’s Satellite Navigation System Committee, China will launch some 18 Beidou navigation satellites by 2018. Six to eight Beidou satellites will be sent into orbit in the second half of 2017. The Beidou (North Star) satellite...
Chinese group produces graphene from corn stalks
A joint team of Heilongjiang University, FU Honggang, and the Jinan Shengquan Group have found a procedure to prepare graphene from corn cob cellulose. The production line allows for an output of 100 t/y and will be further scaled-up. China produces 100 million tons...
China launches fully automated cryogenic cell storage center in Shanghai
On May 18, Shanghai Changzheng Hospital inaugurated the “Long March Cell Clinical Research Center”, a joint military and civilian unit. The center comprises a fertility preservation center" which stores ovarian tissue and eggs and provides 3 years of free preservation...
Nanjing group isolates Clostridium strain which forms n-butanol and isopropanol/acetone from xylose
The group of JIANG Min at Nanjing Tech University has isolated Clostridium strain NJP7 which, in an optimized medium containing vitamin B3, forms 2.06 g/L n-butanol and 054 g/L of isopropyl alcohol during simultaneous saccharification of hemicellulose and...
Wo Yuan Biotechnolog Co. gets approval for clinical trial on recombinant human serum albumin (rHSA) produced in transgenic rice
The startup company, located in Wuhan Optical Valley in Hubei Province, claims to have achieved yields of 10 g/kg of rice at a purity of 99,9999 %. A clinical trial is planned from August 2017 at Beijing Tongren Hospital. Presently, the output of rHSA by the company...