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According to WAN Gang, Minister of Science and Technology, in future a committee of senior experts will be formed to carry out appraisals before each major scientific project is launched. In addition, professional agents will be hired to manage each project, instead of government and supervisors of science and technology managing the programs themselves. CAS […]
EpimAb Biotherapeutics, a Shanghai startup, announced that it had completed the Series A funding of 25 million dollars. The funds will be used to further develop Fabs-In-Tandem Immunoglobulin (FIT-Ig), a proprietary bispecific antibody, and to expand the pipeline of bispecific antibodies for cancer immunotherapy etc. The company plans to submit an application to start the […]
Instead of generating energy from the breakdown of lithium nitride (2Li3N) into lithium and nitrogen gas, the battery prototype runs on atmospheric nitrogen in ambient conditions and reacts with lithium to form lithium nitride. According to Xinbo ZHANG, one of the researchers, its energy output is brief but comparable to that of other lithium-metal batteries. […]
The product consists of several bio-active chemicals, such as polyphenols and soluble sugars isolated from the Pistacia chinensis leaves, together with some amino acid and microelements, which significantly induces the anthocyanin and proanthocyanidin biosynthesis in the leaf and thus makes the leaf color turned into red in a few days after treatment. The product could […]
According to MOST, China will increase its annual per capita spending on research and development (R&D) to 500,000 yuan by 2020 from 370,000 yuan in 2014, According to the 13th five-year plan for national science and technology talent development (2016-2020), China had 5.35 million people working in R&D by the end of 2015, the world’s […]
The experiments on China’s space station Tianzhou-1 will study the basic development and maturation of germ cells in a micro-gravity environment, and the developmental potential of human embryonic stem cells, thus taking a first step in investigations concerning human reproduction in space. Scientists on the ground will remotely control the research equipment to change the […]
The Cambricon research project is led by two brothers, CHEN Yunji (陈云霁) and CHEN Tianshi (陈天石), two young full professors at the CAS Institute of Computing Technology. Unlike existing neural networks which require thousands of GPU-based accelerators, Cambricon processors are designed to operate more efficiently and run on much less power. The latest Cambricon-1A chip […]
The cargo ship is 10.6 meters long and has a maximum diameter of 3.35 meters. Its maximum takeoff weight is 13.5 tonnes, enabling it to carry over 6 tonnes of supplies. Tianzhou-1 will dock with Tiangong-2 space station three times. After the first docking, aerospace engineers will test the controlling ability of the cargo spacecraft […]
The group of YANG Sheng at CAS SIBS has developed a series of genome editing tools for Yarrowia lipolytica and generated an efficient biosynthetic pathway using strong promoters and multiple gene copies for each of the 12 steps involved in ß-carotene biosynthesis. Using fed-batch fermentation with an optimized medium, the engineered Y. lipolytica cells could produce […]
The occurrence of many tumors is caused by abnormal activation of growth-related kinases. Inhibitors of these mutant kinases are effective in inhibiting the growth of cancer cells. The institute’s cell bank contains nearly 70 kinds of cancer kinase target, with cell types of more than 150 species, covering almost all the current knowledge of tumor-related […]