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Energy resources will be built on biomass, wind, solar, geothermal and other clean energy. Part of the mix is a 200 t/d kitchen waste recycling and safe disposal project. China Bio news release, August 31, 2015
With a total investment of 730 million yuan, a therapeutic monoclonal antibody pilot plant was built which offers a scale of up to 2000 L for the production of monoclonal antibodies for clinical tests and will be further scaled up to 80.000L, enough to produce 3 tons of monoclonal antibody protein (anti tumor) per year. The plant is located in Fujian’s Sanming Hi-Tech Zone. China Bio news release, August 29, 2015
Over the past 10 years, this topic was substantially funded but mostly reached only pilot-scale. According to plans, power generation from biomass should reach 13 million kW by 2015, with the next target as 20 million kW. To this end, 200 biomass power plants will be supported by up to 90 billion Yuan investment provisioned to regional biomass-related industry. China Bio news release, August 29, 2015
The essential progress was due to protein engineering of a 2-deoxy-D-ribose 5-phosphate aldolase obtained from Klebsiella pneumonia. The whole-cell process led to 287 g/L yields after 16 hrs in an E. coli host. CAS news release, August 27, 2015
A team from Tongji University and various institute of the CAS in Shanghai could show with mouse embryonic fibroblasts in vivo that the addition of 3 – 6 small molecules was enough to transdifferentiate these cells into cardiomyocytes which showed rhythmic contraction, cardiac-specific gene expression and cardiac-like electrophysiological characteristics. CAS news release, August 25, 2015
The duplex RT-PCR test features an internal reference control and claims an extremely low detection limit CAS news release, August 26, 2015
Based on China’s good experience with heat- and insect resistant transgenic cotton which now has 96 % market share in China, the Ministry proposes studies on safety evaluation and management of GEM crops, in view of a growing population and global warming. China Bio news release, August 26, 2015
The contract was signed by Prof. TAN Tianwei, President of BUCT, and Mr Hepburn, Vice-Chancellor of UBC. China Bio news release, August 26, 2015
Using the concept of synthetic biology with E. coli as a host, yields of 3,5 g/L L-sorbose and 2,3 g/L L-psicose were obtained. CAS news release, August 26, 2015
In cooperation with Foster Wheeler (Hebei) Engineering Co., the Changzhou-based company (常州仁晟生物能源科技有限公司) has established a process which uses waste oil pretreatment followed by hydrogenation, decarbonylation, decarboxylation and isomerization using a novel solid catalyst. The oxygen-free product consists of straight and branched paraffins, has a freezing point of – 50 °C and a cetane number of ≥80. It can be used as aviation biofuel. China Bio news release, August 25, 2015