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Longping YUAN, aged 86 and China’s Father of hybrid rice” working at the Wuhan Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology’s Institute of Crop Science, believes in the commercialization of polyploid rice varieties within the next 5 years, leading to yield improvements from presently 15 to 17 t/ha.” China Bio news release, September 26, 2016
The group around Professor Jianyong LIU has developed a two-stage process based on an primary oxidation-reduction step followe by a 1,5 min protease treatment which helps in the anti-shrinking of wool. The wool textile industry is an important part of China’s textile industry. China Bio news release, Sept. 28, 2016
The 4900 to ship, with home port Shanghai, is the mthership for Rainbow fish”, a manned submersible which can dive 11,000 m deep. Test dives have been done at 8,000 m in the Solomon sea near Papua New Guinea and are planned, later this year, at an unmanned dive at 10,000 m in the Mariana […]
In view of China’s huge medical device industry market, with a 2015 market size of more than 300 billion yuan and a growth rate of more than 20%, Suzhou Hi-Tech Zone will attempt to built a leading national park which attracts domestic and foreign companies in this field. China Bio news release, September 23, 2016
The group of Zhiping XU at Tsinghua University and MJ Buehler at MIT have found that layered structures of water at the nanometer interface between cells and graphene have a lower diffusion coefficient compared to bulk water, leading to reduced thermal resistance between cells and graphene. This helps in an efficient heat dissipation in bio-nanodevices […]
The 180 days experiment with 4 volunters was started in June, 2016, and will finish in December. It is examined how oxygen, water and food can be used and reused in space. The physiological changes and emotional fluctuations of the volunteers brought by a hermetic environment will be checked, and a total of 25 kinds […]
The combined-cycle aerospace vehicle will be propelled by a combination of turbine, ramjet and rocket engines. It will use turbine engines, like those installed on jetliners, or rocket-based combined-cycle engines, when it takes off from a conventional runway. CAS news release, September 22, 2016
The index is based on an assessment of a select group of scientific journals in which research papers are published, and of authors’ contributions to such papers. Among 100 top institutions in the life and basic medical sciences, 48 are located in the USA, 10 in the UK, 8 in France and 3 in China. […]
The group of Yanlei YU at Fudan University has developed a novel concept for liquid handling. It is based on channels with deformable tubular microactuators containing azobenzene derivatives. Upon illumination, these channels change shape and drive the liquid into a desired direction, without any need for pumps. The new concept is expected to help design […]