BGI joins genome program of United Arab Emirates
Within the program, large-scale genomic data will be collected to establish a health care system with predictable, preventative and individual-based medical treatment for the citizens of the UAE. Coordinator is the Abu Dhabi-based Group 42.
Xinhua, December 12, 2019
San’an Sino-Science, a leader in vertical farming in China
One of their plant factories in Anxi, Fujian province, covers 1 ha and supposedly is the largest vertical farming complex in the world. By inventing energy efficient LEDs and recyclable hydroponic solutions, as well as new energy-conserving methods the factory's...
Roland Berger: China’s health care products market to reach 180 billion Yuan in 2020
According to the report, China's health care products market size was about 120 billion Yuan in 2015 and increased 2.7 times from 2005 (about 45 billion Yuan). The United States and China occupy half of the global health care products market. According to WHO...
CAS Kunming Institute of Botany solves tea genome
Tea is the world's most ancient and most widely consumed caffeine soft drinks, the current global more than 160 countries, 3 billion people drink tea tea. It is widely believed that tea originated in China's Yunnan, Sichuan and other places. Tea trees are commercially...
Chinese research consortium develops conducting polymer composites for flexible electronics
A study team led by Xiaodong FANG from Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (AIOFM), Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, and Mingming MA at CAS’ University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), designed and synthesized a series of polyol-polypyrrole...
Yue Tang Sugar Co. offers food image recognition software based on AI
The app provided by the company is claimed to have a recognition rate of 87 % even for complex Chinese food and predicts „sugar points“ for postprandial blood sugar. It takes into account the amount of a dish, cooking methods, diet patterns and different consumer...
CAS Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica develops candidate antibiotic active against multidrug-resistant microorganisms
The group of Yushe YANG has designed and synthesized a siderophore-conjugated monocyclic ß-lactam YT-14 which was very potent, in a phase I clinical study, against multidrug-resistant P. aeruginosa, A. baumannii and K. pneumoniae. CAS news release, May 2, 2017
CAS Dalian Institute of Physical Chemistry develops multifunctional catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation to gasoline
The team of Jian SUN and Qingjie GE at DICP have prepared an efficient, stable, and multifunctional Na–Fe3O4/HZSM-5 catalyst for the direct production of gasoline from CO2 hydrogenation. This catalyst exhibited 78% selectivity to C5–C11 as well as low CH4 and CO...
MOST estimates that China’s biotech industry will contribute more than 4 % to the national GDP by 2020
According to a spokesman of the Ministry of Science and Technology, by 2020 China will have built 10 to 20 biomedical professional parks with production values of over 10 billion Yuan each, and another 5 to 10 biotechnology industry parks with production values of 10...
Shenzhen to establish a hematopoietic stem cell transplant base for the treatment of leukemia
The program was started at Peking University in 2013 and since has cured ofer 5,800 Chinese leukemia patients, based on haploid allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. This original treatment program will now be transplanted to Shenzhen University,...
Shanghai Jiaotong University team completes CAR-T clinical trial on refractory or recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma
The group of Zonghai LI at Renji Hospital’s Shanghai Cancer Research Institute and Keji Biomedical (Shanghai) Co. have jointly developed more than ten candidate CAR-T products (chimeric antigen-modified T lymphocytes"), covering leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, liver...
EpimAb Biotherapeutics Co. plans clinical trials of about 2.7 billion procured tetravalent bispecific antibodies
EpimAb Biotherapeutics, a Shanghai startup, announced that it had completed the Series A funding of 25 million dollars. The funds will be used to further develop Fabs-In-Tandem Immunoglobulin (FIT-Ig), a proprietary bispecific antibody, and to expand the pipeline of...
China will change scientific evaluation system
According to WAN Gang, Minister of Science and Technology, in future a committee of senior experts will be formed to carry out appraisals before each major scientific project is launched. In addition, professional agents will be hired to manage each project, instead...