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The service was started two years after launching its Tiantong-1 01 mobile communications satellite into orbit. The goverment decided to develop their own satphone service after a major earthquake hit Sichuan province in 2008. The quake put an end to all ground communication systems, and the whole disaster relief depended on foreign satellite systems. Satellite […]
The automatic stem cell induction and cultivation equipment covers an area of 25 square meters and consists of six modules: automated incubator, automated liquid processing system, microscopic online observation system, high-accuracy clone picker, culture dish delivery system, and equipment control system. The reprogramming of stem cells begins with an incubator for 24 individually induced pluripotent […]
Transparent conductive films (TCFs) are an important component of touch screens, smart windows, liquid crystal displays, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and organic photovoltaic cells. CHENG Huiming and LIU Chang at CAS Institute of Metal Research have synthesized transparent conductive films of good optoelectronic performance by a chemical vapor deposition method. The pristine SWCNT films showed a […]
China’s new mother vessel for the manned deep-sea research submersible Jiaolong will be named Shenhai Yihao (Deep Sea No. 1). Jiaolong, which is undergoing a major maintenance check at the base, will start a global deep-sea scientific exploration mission in 2020. The new vessel, to be delivered around March 2019, will have a displacement of […]
A team around SONG Wenjuan from Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, LIN Hui from Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences and other researchers investigated the occurrence and distribution antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in Chinese and global lakes. The meta-analysis showed that seven antibiotics (sulfamethoxazole, sulfamerazine, sulfameter, tetracycline, oxytetracycline, erythromycin, and roxithromycin) were found at high concentrations in […]
The group around SUN Jibin used a ribosomal 5S rRNA gene as a promoter to mediate the expression of sgRNA in a novel and efficient CRISPR/Cas9 system which enabled Cas9 to cut 100% of the Aspergillus niger genome. This allowed to establish an efficient Aspergillus niger genome editing toolkit. With a 40 bp short homology […]
Following an initiative oft he Ministry of Agriculture, China attempts to improve rural milk qualit standards. By now, 15 milk enterprises in China have passed the high-quality milk standard tests which are claimed to be more stringent than current standards of the dairy industry in Europe and America. Since the Sanlu infant milk powder incident […]