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The target is to increase fish production in a sustainable manner. Main partner ist he CAS Institute of Hydrobiology, Wuhan, and students working on this issue will obtain a dual degree from CAS and the University of Ottawa. CAS news release, Nov. 28, 2014
The plan contains 5 strategic tasks: 1. enhance independent energy supplies (clean use of coal, increase in domestic oil and natural gas production, provide emergency reserve), 2. revolutionize and lower energy consumption, 3. optimize energy structure (less coal, more natural gas and nuclear energy, more renewables), 4. expand international cooperation and participate in global energy […]
Researchers around Chaoguang TIAN used transcriptome sequencing in Neurospora crassa and found that cellooligosaccharide transporters CDT1 and CDT2 play a crucial role in cellulose utilization in this organism. CAS news release, Nov. 28, 2014
Nature has ranked CAS as No. 6, shortly behand the Max-Planck-Society, in global scientific output, as measured by the number of publications in 68 Nature-associated magazines. CAS in 2013 published 165 papers in these magazines, as compared to Harvard University with 387 papers. Nine Chinese institutions were placed in the top 200, up from three […]
According to an interview of deputy director Lijun XIONG of CGMCC (China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center), the Center, located at the CAS Institute of Microbiology in Beijing and founded in 1979, a signatory of the Budapest Treaty in 1995, also hosts a gene library for about 10.000 strains. Stocks are usually preservied in liquid […]
Anhui’s Anke Biotechnology Co. has already licensed KGF-2 (lyophilized recombinant human keratinocyte growth factor-2). The licensing of aFGF is to develop technology for diabetic foot treatment. China has 114 million diabetic patients, over 30% of all patients have skin lesions, one of the most typical and most harmful symptoms of diabetic foot. 3% to 6% […]
The study was lead by LI Ming from the CAS Institute of Zoology, Beijing. This monkey is specialized in eating leaves and seeds and has a special stomach compartment to digest such food. The researchers also tested the microbiome of this animal and found a closer relation to cattle than to humans. CAS news release, […]
In a multi-center study led by the China Ocean University and supported by several marine industries, molecular markers were obtained which may become relevant for breeding. China Bio news release, Nov. 26, 2014
CAS SIBS publishes already Cell Research since 8 years (impact factor 12). Cell Discovery is focused on molecular and cell biology, chief editors are Gang PEI and Dangsheng LI. CAS news release, Nov. 25, 2014
In a recent agricultural fair at Shenzhen, BGI offered to build a genotyping, gene and genome mining platform which can be used by SMEs for plant or animal molecular breeding. About 20 breeding companies are said to have expressed interest. China Bio news release, Nov. 24, 2014