Month: January 2013

The Taiwanese businessman Samual YIN has announced to fund, starting from 2014, a Chinese version of the Nobel prize, the “Tang Award”, named after the golden age of Chinese civilization. It will be awarded for sustainable developments, biopharmaceutical science, sinology and rules of law. The winners will receive 1.35 million USD plus 341.000 USD research funds. The donation is at 102 million USD Press release of Tang Prize Foundation, January 28, 2013; http://en.prnasia.com/story/74325-0.shtml

The layout allows for 300 days, 7.200 hours operation. The layout allows for 300 days, 7.200 hours operation.

According to the Ministry of Transport, during this year’s extended spring festival season (Jan. 26 to March 6) trains will be used by 225 million Chinese, highways by 3,1 billion and air traffic by 35,5 million, thus testing the Chinese traffic infrastructure. Science Daily, January 28, 2013

The company is located in Xiangtan High-Tech Zone. The process is claimed to preserve all health ingreadients of tea seed and arrive at an oil which is similar to olive oil in quality China Industrial Biotechnology Network, January 28, 2013

The method, developed by Prof. TANG Zhuo’s group, is based on a reproducible DNA extraction procedure followed by visual identification of plant-specific sequences on an array with visual readout. CAS press release, January 23, 2013; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3518818/

The PLA hollow-fiber membrane (Chinese patent pending) reaches urea clearance at 175 ml/min and BSA rejection rates above 95 %. CAS press release, January 22, 2013

The method is based on solution thermodynamics (“thermodynamic optimum searching”) and improves prediction accuracy by 10 – 48 %. Yan ZHU et al., Biotechnology and Bioengineering, DOI: 10.1002 / bit. 24739

According to a vote of Academicians of both organizations, the most important breakthroughs were 1. Successful docking of 3 Chinese astronauts to orbiting module 2. Successful dive of manned submersible to over 7.000 m depth in the Pacific 3. Start of operation of Dalian-Harbin high-speed railway in an area with extremely low temperatures 4. Publication of a full moon map captured by Chang-2 moon orbiter 5. Successful test of petaFlop supercomputer Sunway BlueLight 6. Successful test of 120 t liquid oxygen-kerosene engine for Long-March5 carrier rocket 7. Breakthroughs in quantum information processing 8. Identification of a third type neutrino oscillation 9. Approval of a hepatitis E vaccine developed by Xiamen Innovax Biotech Co 10. Inauguration of Asia’s biggest radio telescope in Shanghai Source: CAS press release, January 21, 2013

China is the world’s largest vaccine producer, with nearly 1 billion samples. The official installment by WHO, first for a developing country, expresses confidence that production technology and quality assurance of biological products has reached international standards China Industrial Biotechnology Consortium, January 18, 2013

Jiahe Biotech claims to build on their technology within 3 years 50 factories for straw processing, at an investment of 10 billion yuan, which will process 10 million tons of straw, a value of 30 billion yuan. China Industrial Biotechnology Consortium, January 18, 2013