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According to the National Bureau of Statistics, R&D spending in 2019 was 2.214 trillion CN¥ or about 320 billion US$. Investment in basic researcb accounted to 6% of total, company expenditure on R&D was 76.4%. Xinhua news release, August 27, 2020
A group around Dr. GAO Lizeng from the CAS Institute of Biophysics (IBP) has found that a chitosan- functionalized iron oxide nanozyme (IONzyme) functions as a catalytic adjuvant to enhance nasal mucosal immunity. The modified nanozyme combines with flu virus particles loaded with negative charges to produce the composites of nanozyme and inactivated flu virus, thus promoting the […]
A consortium around Xiaoli ZHAO at CAS Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technologies prepared a hydrogel composed of catechol-modified quaternized chitosan and poly(d,l-lactide)-poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(d,l-lactide, loaded with bioactive glass. When the hydrogel formed after injection into ruptured skin of mice, the skin was sealed and wound healing was accelerated, probably due to endothelial cells migration and angiogenesis stimulated […]
According to the manufacturer, Kylin V10 features excellent user experience, a rich extended ecosystem, and its security level ranks first in China. It is seid to be compatible with over 10,000 hardware and software products, including CPU, firmware, cloud platform and big data, produced by over 1,000 domestic and foreign enterprises. The company will develop […]
An irrigation system developed by Ningxia University includes technologies and equipment involving wind-solar-powered water extraction, underground seeping pipes and a control software system operated on smartphones. It has been alredy applied over a total area of 575,733 hectares in northwest China, Oman and Egypt and will now be installed in Qatar in a project worth […]
Locust swarms have recently devastated large agricultural areas in Eastern Africa and Southern Asia. A team around Xianhui WANG and Le KANG at CAS Institute of Zoology and CAS University of Science and Technology has investigated 35 odorous compounds emitted by locusts and their interaction with over 100 locust receptors, with the result that 4VA […]
The team of James C. LIAO at the Institute of Biological Chemistry of Academica Sinica in Taipei, Republic of China, has reprogrammed E. coli using metabolic robustness criteria followed by laboratory evolution to establish a strain that can efficiently utilize methanol as the sole carbon source and grows to high cell density at a rate […]