Chinese scientists have recently developed a facile photochemical route for the preparation of gold nanoparticles with excellent luminescence properties. The study paves the way for facile synthesis of high performance luminescent gold nanoparticles for a wide range of bio-imaging applications.
Researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences examined the diversity and distribution patterns of soil arthropods in four forests with different latitudinal distributions in Yunnan Province, southwestern China.
Prof. Daniel Falush of the Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. Yoshio Yamaoka of Oita University, Japan, and Prof. Kaisa Thorell of Gothenberg University, Sweden uncovered fascinating new details about the long association of humans and our stomach bacteria.
Researchers from Kunming Institute of Botany and Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden found an unknown Lysionotus species with unusual flowers living on trees in secondary forest of Cangyuan County, southwestern Yunnan. They confirmed that it represented a new species and named it as Lysionotus cangyuanensi.
Catalytic bioparts are fundamental to the design, construction and optimization of biological systems for specific metabolic pathways. A research team from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has recently developed a Registry and Database of Bioparts for Synthetic Biology. Containing 83,193 catalytic bioparts with experimental evidences, this database is designed and developed to be the first comprehensive resource for catalytic bioparts in synthetic biology.
Recently, a research team led by Prof. SU Yanjun from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed that canopy structure significantly influences local-scale variations in autumn phenology by mediating microclimate conditions. These findings offer new insights into the mechanisms driving local-scale variation in temperate forest autumn phenology and its response to climate change.
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