Chinese scientists at the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology (TIB) recently reported a de novo route for artificial starch synthesis from carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) for the first time, making it possible to shift the mode of starch production from traditional agricultural planting to industrial manufacturing, and opens up a new technical route for synthesizing complex molecules from CO<sub>2</sub>.
The Minister of Ecology and Environment of China and the Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences discuss the potential for change from COP15. The fate of humans is linked to the fate of all living creatures. Awareness is growing of the critical state of biodiversity loss, and of the need to protect biodiversity if we are to safeguard our future.
A joint Sino-Brazilian research team led by Dr. WANG Xiaolin from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology has reported new dinosaur fossils from the Early Cretaceous Hami Pterosaur Fauna.
An international research team studying data from thousands of people worldwide has shown that people's metabolisms peak earlier and decline later in life than previously thought.
Researchers from Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology and Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica have revealed the structural basis of antidepressant ketamine action on human <EM>N</EM>-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors.
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