UNESCO endorses Green Carbon Programme to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs)

http://english.qibebt.cas.cn/ne/rp/202512/t20251201_1134324.html

UNESCO’s “Decade of Sciences” aims to engage science in achieving its sustainable development goals (SDGs).

UNESCO has just endorsed the long-standing commitment of the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology QIBEBT to providing open science solutions for green and sustainable technologies.

QIBEBT’s “Green Carbon Programme” focuses on four core themes,

development and utilization of green carbon resources,
green conversion and utilization of fossil carbon resources,
efficient fixation and utilization of carbon emissions, and
analysis and management of multi-scale carbon cycles.

In addition, QIBEBT operates the editorial office of the Green Carbon journal https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/green-carbon which offers an in-depth and multidisciplinary view of research advances in the field.

With the leverage of the UNESCO endorsement, QIBEBT will boost its efforts to drive innovation and improve public science literacy, supporting high-quality, sustainable, and low-carbon development in China and worldwide for achieving the SDGs.

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A humanoid robot training center in Qingdao improves robot efficiency

https://en.people.cn/n3/2026/0324/c90000-20439477.html

At the Qingdao Humanoid Robot Data Training Center in Laoshan District of Qingdao, humanoid robots are trained for jobs such as intelligent industrial manufacturing, smart home, and commercial services. Data collectors here control robots to complete specific tasks like logistics sorting, supermarket restocking, kitchen operations, and component assembly. Through thousands of repetitions and trials, massive amounts of motion data are generated, endowing robots with a smarter “intelligent brain,” and helping humanoid robots enter all walks of life to serve thousands of households.

RamEx: high-throughput microbial ramanome analyses with accurate quality assessment

https://www.cas.cn/syky/202602/t20260226_5102870.shtml

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-026-02339-3

A research team at the CAS Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology has developed RamEx, an integrated analysis framework for Ramanome big data. This platform, tailored to the characteristics of Raman spectroscopy data, establishes a one-stop workflow from data reading and standardized preprocessing to downstream data mining, centered on automated quality control algorithms and efficient parallel computing processes. It also demonstrates a systematic analysis of microbial metabolomical heterogeneity and metabolic pattern differentiation at the single-cell level.

Raman genomics deep analysis can track the dynamic changes in the composition of macromolecules such as lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids in different cells, thus revealing the differentiation and succession patterns of microbial metabolic states at the population scale with single-cell precision. This provides new research ideas and technical pathways for understanding the functional organization and environmental adaptation mechanisms of complex communities.

RamEx removes spectral noise in Raman-based microbial cell sorting

http://english.cas.cn/newsroom/research-news/202602/t20260224_1151116.shtml

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-026-02339-3

Scientists from the CAS Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology have developed a novel computational tool, RamEx, designed to resolve the computational bottleneck in high-throughput microbial Ramanomics.

RamEx streamlines the full Ramanomic analysis pipeline, from data preprocessing and automated quality control to advanced data mining. An Iterative Convolutional Outlier Detection (ICOD) algorithm tackles spectral noise in an unsupervised manner to dynamically identify and eliminate spectral artifacts, ensuring high-quality input for downstream analysis.

The platform’s performance was validated using diverse datasets, including pathogenic bacteria, probiotics, and yeast fermentation systems. Notably, RamEx successfully captured phenotypic heterogeneity in genetically identical yeast cells by detecting subtle metabolic fluctuations and tracking the dynamic accumulation of intracellular macromolecules, including lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.

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