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A team of Shihua LI at Emory University, Liangxue LAI at CAS South China Institute of Stem Cells and Regeneration Medicine, and Sen YAN at Jinan University used the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technique to introduce a segment of a human gene causing Huntington’s, with a very long glutamine repeat region, into pig fibroblast cells, Somatic […]
The team of ZHU Tingxuan at the Institute of Psychology, CAS, combined cultural psychology and big data analysis (Twitter), to analyze the characteristics such as independence or individualism of countries or regions along the belt and road initiative. The world values database (WVS) project of the institute investigates and studies human values and beliefs on […]
As an important base chemical, ethylene glycol is not only the main raw material of PET, an important plastic product, but also widely used in other fields of the chemical industry. At present, more than 90% of ethylene glycol production in the industry is through the oil route, namely the ethylene-epoxy hydration route, which is […]
On March 26th, CAS launched the Strategy Pilot Project of Science and Technology” (A Class) in Beijing. The project networks between the CAS Institute of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Innovation, and various CAS teams in interdisciplinary fields of materials science, chemistry, biomechanics, and clinical medicine. XIANG Libin, vice president of the Chinese Academy of […]
The group of XU Yun at CAS Institute of Semiconductors and GAO Qianqiang at Buffalo University have engineered a flexible TENG based on crumpled gold films. By introducing crumpled morphology onto the gold thin film using macrocontrol, the TENG delivered a maximum voltage of 124.6 V, a maximum current of 10.13 μA and maximum power density of […]
A pilot drug store in Shandong has officially opened. This pharmacy is similar to a supermarket, but it is manned by a robotic pharmacist “Little Joe”. The level of the robotic pharmacist is equivalent to a pharmacist with 10 years of experience. He can diagnose the patient through consultation and give advice on medication. The […]
According to a Nature symposium in Guangzhou, Chinese researchers published more than 90 original research papers in Nature in 2016, accounting for about 11 percent, compared with 0.4 percent in 1997. CAS news release, March 26, 2018
The first phase of the project is aimed at understanding how cancer and other complicated diseases develop by addressing the relationships and internal mechanisms between genes and phenotypes. As a first step, the project will produce a reference atlas for complete phenotypes of 20,000 healthy Chinese. Chief scientist of the project is LI Jin, Vice […]
A research team of SUN Jian and GE Qingjie at CAS DICP reported a CO2 hydrogenation to olefin process that reaches 72% selectivity and produces 50.3% of heavy alkenes (C4-C18), among which linear α-olefins account for 80%. The process is catalyzed by carbon-supported iron, commonly used in C-C coupling reactions, with multiple alkali promoters extracted […]
The project, inaugurated at March 1, 2018, aims to build a global and open international big earth data science center over the next 5 years. A team of 129 institutions from home and abroad with a total of more than 1200 researchers will focus on three areas of work. The first is to solve a […]