Day: 11. November 2018

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) in Hefei, East China’s Anhui province claims to have reached for the first time a plasma central electron temperature of 100 million C, the ignition temperature of nuclear fusion. China designed and constructed the EAST in 2006. The facility is 11 meters tall, with a diameter of 8 meters, […]

Autophagy is a mechanism to selectively degrade damaged proteins from cells and organelles in the lysosome. A research group at CAS Institute of Zoology has investigated peripheral blood leukocyte transcriptome data of 171 longevity families in Hainan (centenarians, their F1 offspring and spouses of F1 offspring) and found the up-regulation of autophagy – lysosomal signal […]