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| The John Innes Centre (JIC) has launched a major collaborative venture with Institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This builds on the strong associations between JIC and China that began more than three decades ago. There are over 100 JIC alumni with academic positions in China, and many of these alumni are in senior positions, including three who are Academicians at CAS. |
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| Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Process Engineering (CAS-IPE) announced that they have used the world's fastest supercomputer to run a molecular simulation to examine potential improvements in the production of crystalline silicon. |
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| Dr. BAI Chunli, President of CAS, signed an agreement on June 2nd establishing the International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural and Cultural Heritage (WHIST) on behalf of the Chinese Government. This is the first centre established by UNESCO applying space technologies to monitor and conserve UNESCO Natural and Cultural World Heritage Sites. |
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| "The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is open to more international scientists and young research fellows. Talents both home and abroad will strengthen our innovative force and help tackle major science and technology problems,” said CAS President BAI Chunli at the Meeting of CAS Senior International Scientists and Young Fellows (2011) held on June 9th in Beijing. |
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| A Sino-American scientific team, sponsored by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, produced a new species of birch mouse- Sicista primus from the Early Miocene deposits in the central region of Inner Mongolia, as reported in the latest issues of the scientific journal Naturwissen... |
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| Although the existence of an active H3K27me3 demethylase activity is strongly implicated, how H3K27me3 is actively removed in plants remains unknown. Recent research in CAO Xiaofeng’s lab at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences describes the long-sought-after H3K27me3 demethylase in Arabidopsis.
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