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The group around Professor MA Yanghe activated transhydrogenase and NAD kinase in constitutively stable strains of E. coli. Under anaerobic conditions, isobutyl alcohol yield increased to 39% (0.92 mol/mol), close to the theoretical value. Under aerobic conditions, isobutyl alcohol yield increased by by 22%; within 24 hours, 10.8 g/l isobutanol were produced, and production rate […]
According to the University’s Director for the Center of Technical Engineering, Professor WANG Shuyang, this will be a solid development at a present straw prize in China of 250 RMB per ton. China Industrial Biotechnology Network, Dec. 24, 2012
Wind power will obtain 5,8 billion additional funds, followed by 2 billion for biomass-based power generation. Solar power funding is only 723 million RMB. Major budgets go to Shandong, Jiangsu and Inner Mongolia. China Industrial Biotechnology Network, Dec. 21, 2012
Professor ZHAO Liping from Jiaotong University, an expert in intestinal community studies, has found that Enterobacter cloacae B29 made up 1/3 of the intestinal bacteria of a highly obese volunteer and could be reduced to undetectable levels after 23 weeks on a diet of whole grains, traditional Chinese medicinal foods and prebiotics. The weight of […]
Researchers at the CAS Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology have shown that 3-D culture, compared with traditional two-dimensional (2-D) cell culture, can provide physical signals and 3-D matrix close to the in vivo microenvironments. Here, sponge-like collagen scaffolds were used to assess how 3-D culture would affect the differentiation and self-renewal of neural progenitor […]
Following a decision by the national development reform committee in January 2011, Shenzhen Huaqiao University’s Gene Research Institute set up national gene pool whose pool sample size has reached by now 1.3 million, of which of 1.15 million are human samples, and 150.000 are animals, plant, microorganisms and other samples. By the end of 2013, […]
http://www.polyenzyme.com/template/about_en.html China Industrial Biotechnology Network, Dec. 18, 2012
A Chinese official from CAAS has predicted, at a Shanghai Conference on Agricultural Innovation, that by 2050 50 % of the energy required by humans will be derived from biomass. China’s biomass energy supply at present is number 4 in the world and 500 – 700 biomass power plants are under planning. According to the […]
Based on metabonomics, a team from CAS Institute of Northwestern Plant Resources and CAS Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics has found that besides uric acid, creatinine and tryptophan in human serum and creatinine, guanosine and hippuric acid in urine can all be used as biomarkers to differentiate between gout from non-gout. CAS English News, Dec. […]
The map contains 4.400 SNP markers and all 19 linage groups at a total genetic distance of about 2.000 centimorgans. CAS News, December 12, 2012