The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) accomplished several key tasks for the Chang'e-4 mission, as one of three core organizations involved in the project.
A research team at the Institute of Neuroscience, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, achieved a technical milestone in non-human primate cloning by generating two genetically identical long-tailed macaque monkeys using somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Sodium oligomannate (GV-971), an innovative, orally administered drug for treating Alzheimer's disease, completed its phase III clinical trial in July 2018. It is the fruit of of a 21-year research effort at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica.
Researchers observed Majorana bound states in an iron-based superconductor for the first time. Pure Majorana bound states appear in the vortex core, which are protected by a large topological gap and survive at relatively high temperature.
The China Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) is our country's first and the world's fourth pulsed spallation neutron source. The Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Wuhan P4 Laboratory) is China's first national biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory.
QIN Zhongjun, a molecular biologist at the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences of the Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, and his collaborators created the world's first eukaryotic cell containing only a single chromosome.
"Zhongke 804," a new rice variety developed by CAS Academician LI Jiayang from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, showed excellent performance in 2018 at a 3,000-mu (200-ha) demonstration field in Heilongjiang Province.
Four pairs of Beidou Navigation System (BDS-3) satellites manufactured by the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites were launched into space in 2018. Each pair of satellites was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center by one rocket into medium Earth orbit.
A series of high-performance streak cameras, four kinds of high-end microscopes, and ultra-low dose X-ray intensity correlation imaging of two-dimensional objects and a natural biological specimen with a portable table-top X-ray source were developed by CAS scientists.
The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology reported the oldest and highest early Stone Age (Paleolithic) archaeological site yet known anywhere in the world in November 2018.
A cold atomic space clock, developed by the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, was launched into space with Tiangong-2. It is the first cold atomic clock in the world that is operating in orbit and carrying out scientific experiments.
Researchers from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health of CAS characterized the entire process of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) homing in vivo and discovered a novel subpopulation of macrophages, called "Usher cells," which can recognize and guide HSC into a vascular niche.
