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Nanjing Agricultural University succeeded to breed pigs of different genders using a somatic cell mixed cloning technology.From a total of four pigs, one male and one female, somatic cells of the ear tissue were cultured and stored. From the oocytes of a female pig, the cell nuclei were removed by microscopic surgery, cultured in vitro, […]
In the middle of the rice planting season, a smart rice transplanter with automatic operation is deployed in a smart agriculture model area of Hongwei Farm Co., Ltd., Heilongjiang Province, and is performing precise rice planting work. The autonomous driving rice transplanter applies the Beidou satellite positioning system, can automatically avoid obstacles, make U-turns, and […]
According to Egypt’s Health Minister Hala Zayed, Egypt will start locally producing China’s Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine in June at the plants of the Egyptian Holding Company for Biological Products and Vaccines (VACSERA). The vaccine produced in Egypt will be dubbed Sinovac-Vacsera. So far, Egypt has reported 236,272 COVID-19 cases, including 13,845 deaths and 176,363 recoveries. Xinhua […]
YU Ziniu and colleagues of CAS South China Sea Institute of Oceanology have completed the whole genome sequencing of Nautilus. Its genome is only 730.59 Mb and encodes 17,170 genes. Nautilus’s eyes lack a lens and use small hole imaging to adjust vision, forming a unique pinhole eye in nature, providing valuable materials and clues […]
The share of core papers from China ranks second in the world, and the areas of competitive advantage cover nanotechnology, computer and engineering, environmental governance, but they account for a relatively small share in medicine, social sciences, economics and business, and biological sciences. The United States publications dominate in life sciences, medicine and environmental ecology. […]
The newly launched Shanghai Immune Therapy Institute is the latest example of the city’s efforts to build world-class immunology research hubs. It will focus on three research areas: tumor immunotherapy, chronic inflammatory diseases and transplantation immunology, and infectious diseases and vaccines. CAS news release, May 5, 2021
On May 11th, Xinhua News reported the results of the 7th national population census. In the newly released data from the results, China’s population at mainland reaches 1.41 billion. Compared with the sixth national census data in 2010, an increase of 72.06 million people, an increase of 5.38%, with an average annual growth rate of […]
Biotech in China Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, April 2021
China’s future space sation Tianhe (“Heavenly Palace”) Tianhe is the largest spacecraft developed by China so far, with a total length of 16.6 meters, a maximum diameter of 4.2 meters and a take-off mass of 22.5 tonnes. When the construction is completed, the space station will be T-shaped, with the core module at the center and […]
