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2024 UNESCO International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences goes to three scientists from China, Egypt and Greece

http://en.people.cn/n3/2024/0425/c90000-20161248.html https://www.unesco.org/en/prizes/equatorial-guinea Qiao Jie of China, Mohamed Ali Farag of Egypt, and Triantafyllos Stylianopoulos of Greece received the awards for outstanding contributions to improving the quality of human life through scientific research at a ceremony held in Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the 10th Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development. The prize is funded […]

Dengue protection by changing the mosquito’s microbiome?

https://english.news.cn/20240419/c1645294c8f84729a9a1b0bd6a983f40/c.html https://www.science.org/content/article/bacteria-found-mosquito-guts-could-help-scientists-fight-dengue-zika Chinese scientists have developed a new strategy to prevent mosquito-borne diseases by changing insects’ gut microbes, as an alternative to experiments that see genetically-modified mosquitoes released in Florida. Mosquito-borne viruses, such as dengue and Zika, cause several potentially fatal human viral infections. Dengue viruses infect approximately 390 million each year globally. In China, an […]

CAS Institute of Microbiology develops “turboPETase” for PET depolymerisation

https://www.cas.cn/syky/202402/t20240227_5006277.shtml https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45662-9 The research team of Wu Bian at the CAS Institute of Microbiology has redesigned a cutinase for nearly complete PET depolymerization at industrially relevant high-solids loading. In recent years, enzymatic depolymerization for PET recycling has become the primary option for solving the PET plastic pollution crisis in the plastics circular economy. in 2020, […]

Proton-exchange membrane in acid medium permits sustainable electrochemical conversion of CO2 to formic acid

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06917-5 https://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2024/2/517295.shtm A Chinese-New Zealand team has developed a proton-exchange membrane system that reduces CO2 to formic acid at a catalyst that is derived from waste lead–acid batteries and in which a lattice carbon activation mechanism contributes. When coupling CO2 reduction with hydrogen oxidation, formic acid is produced with over 93% Faradaic efficiency. The system […]

Cell-wall based leaching of Ce(III)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S138589472304799X?via%3Dihub https://www.cas.cn/syky/202312/t20231205_4990265.shtml Researchers at the CAS QIBEBT in Qingdao have developed a new type of biomimetic adsorbent material for the green and efficient adsorption of low-concentration rare earth ions from leach tailings in rare earth mining areas based on the enrichment motifs of the rare earth super-enriched plants- In this work, a novel cellulose/pectin composite […]

China’s PubScholar starts with 190 million documents, PubMed holds 36 million

On Nov. 1, 2023, the National Science Library and the Knowledge Serice Platform of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released PubScholar, a public information database modelled after PubMed of the USA. https://pubscholar.cn It operates in Chinese language and aims to build scholarly platform for the public good, to provide high-quality public academic resources for […]

Shenzhen team develops Corynebacterium engineering chassis and converts biomass to lycopene

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41589-023-01489-x https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/research_news/life/202307/t20230731_334150.shtml A research team from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed an integrated technological workflow for engineered living materials ELMs by synergistically combining tools from bioinformatics, structural biology, and synthetic biology. The workflow enables the exploration, comprehension, and utilization of bacterial biopolymers of interest and […]

MIIT: China leads the world in industrial robot production and installations

https://www.recordchina.co.jp/b919111-s6-c20-d0189.html According to an address of Xin Guobin, deputy director of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MII), at the opening ceremony of the 2023 World Robot Games in Beijing, China robot industry sales in 2022 were more than 170 billion yuan (1 yuan = approx. 20 yen), and industrial robot installations accounted for […]

New Chinese high-speed train targets 1,000 km/h

http://j.people.com.cn/n3/2023/0424/c95952-20010257.html The “New High-Speed Train” theme science and education exhibition held by the Aerospace Science and Technology Group opened in Beijing on April 23. According to what was revealed at the exhibition, there has been a new development in the “new high-speed train” that China is developing. China’s first full-scale superconducting running test has recently […]

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