A team around TAN Zheng from the CAS Institute of Zoology has found that single nucleotide variations (SNVs) in human genomes interact with DNA motifs that can form four-stranded secondary structures called G-quadruplexes (G4s). Such interactions result in...

After three years of planning, the national carbon emission trading scheme will be launched online in June. Live tests are said to have involved more than 30 Chinese enterprises. The major goal of the carbon market is to serve companies to reduce carbon emissions, so...

Chinese scientist YUAN Longping, renowned for developing the first hybrid rice strain that relieved countless people of hunger, died of organ failure at 91. At present, as much as 50 percent of China's total number of paddy fields grow Yuan Longping's hybrid...

According to a report from the CPC, China's national e-government platform, www.gjzwfw.gov.cn, had 809 million registered users by the end of 2020. The platform provides integrated public services across different administrative regions and government...

According to Academician ZHAI Wanming, a railway expert, China had completed at the end of 2020, "four longitudinal and four transverse" high-speed rail routes, with a total length of 38,000 kilometers, accounting for about 69% of the world's total. By 2035, China’s...

Sinovac Life Sciences has established the China Center for BRICS Vaccine R&D. The center will promote joint development and testing of vaccines from the five BRICS countries, cooperation in plant construction, out-licensed production, and mutual certification of...

A "Smart Farm Innovation Consortium" in Changsha, Hunan Province, will build more than 100 smart unmanned farms during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25). The project will be led by Huazhi Biotech Co., an agricultural service...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

China will put a regulation into effect to supervise the operations of commonly used apps that collect users' personal information. 39 types of apps, covering navigation, car booking, instant messaging and shopping, should not refuse to provide basic services to users...

The optical remote sensing satellite will be used for the survey of land resources, urban planning, the confirmation of land rights, road network design, crop yield estimation, and disaster prevention and reduction. It will also provide information services for the...

In this test, metabolically active bacteria in the presence of D2O will take in deuterium from D2O via NADPH and add D into biomolecules to form carbon-deuterium (C-D) bonds. The cells containing C-D bonds show a distinguishable Raman band shifted from C-H...

China has decided to participate in this project, jointly funded, built and run by over 10 countries and located at several sites in Western Australia and Southern Africa. The construction of the SKA is scheduled to begin in July 2021. The first phase of the SKA,...

The 245,000 m2 center, located in Nanchang, Jianxi Province, with 16 buildings, will be at the heart of a large civil aircraft industry chain which eventually will have the capacity to deliver about 30 aircrafts every year, including the domestically produced ARJ21...

Staff and academy members of many research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai have given lessons in microbiology, biotechnology, drug development, fiber optic communications, nuclear energy, lasers, thermodynamics, acoustics to more than 20,000...

China has about 40 million female science and technology workers. In a national ceremony,  female scientists were honored for their work for providing  role models and offer valuable contributions to the construction of a modern socialist China....

Using enrichment of microbial cultures on PET- and PE-trash, the group around SUN Chaomin isolated marine consortia composed of five types of dominant bacteria and fungi which had a remarkable ability to break down PET and PE waste into pieces within two weeks. Apart...

Key actions of the inter-ministerial committee are the construction of a “Chinese ecological civilization” by building a natural reserve system with national parks as the main body, and eventually to apply for the title of a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve....

According to China’s Hydrogen Energy Federation, the number of hydrogen stations in China was 128, and the cumulative fleet of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles exceeded 7,000. Of China's hydrogen gas production in 2019, 63 % was produced from coal, 14 % from natural gas,...

The Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS), an international organization, aims to reduce the growing gap between the developed and developing world through applications of science and technology, It has 27 member...

FITI was constructed by 40 Chinese universities, based on Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) technology. IPv6 is a communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks’ and routes’ traffic across the internet. The core...

According to news from Japan, at a press conference on April 19 a spokesperson for the National Development and Reform Commission said, "China will plan future industries ahead of time and actively nurture and develop them. The focus will be on advanced technologies...

A team led by WANG Qintao of Qingdao Energy Institute QIBEBT and FENG Yanbin at Dalian University of Technology used both metabolic and protein engineering to adjust at will the fatty acid chain length in the oil-producing microalgae Nannochloropsis oceanica along the...

A team around Caixia GAO at CAS Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology found that the specific activity of phoshpoglucose isomerase PGI localized in cytosol (PGIc) was much higher than its plastidic isoenzyme counterpart (PGIp). Engineering of PGIc into...