"Newborn” (or de novo) DNA sequences come into this world just like newborn human babies—naked. So, how do new sequences get their DNA methylation on? Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences say they've figured out what happens after the histones settle in: H3 tails that lack methylation at K4 bind to and activate de novo methyltransferases, priming them to methylate nearby DNA.
A senior Chinese scientist with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) project said that all parts of the AMS-02, a particle detector used to detect antimatter and dark matter, have been operating smoothly since the detector was launched into space in May. "Judging from the data we have received so far, all components and units of the particle detector have been working normally,"
SU Dezao, a retired paleoichthyologist of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found a new paleogene leuciscin fish, Tianshanicus liui sp. nov., in the Anjihaihe Formation in the Manas County in northern Xinjiang, as reported in the latest issue of Vertebrata PalAsiatic 2011(2).
China's State Forestry Administration (SFA) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have jointly established a research center that will focus on epidemic diseases that affect China's wild animal population, according to the vice president of the CAS. The center is expected to monitor, forecast, research and control the spread of disease in the
In a ceremony today, the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) announced a collaboration agreement with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to develop a joint Center of Excellence in Brain Mapping for the purpose of collaborative research and education in neuroimaging.
The marine Triassic deposits in southwestern China have yielded numerous vertebrate fossils (ichthyosaurians, sauropterygians, thalattosaurians, and fishes). A new eosauropterygian, Diandongosaurus acutidentatus gen. et sp. nov., a complete skeleton with the skull articulated, was found from the Upper Member of Guanling Formation
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