Chinese researcher who made CRISPR babies is sentenced to three years in prison

BMJ ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. m11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen Dyer
Keyword(s):  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 6-13

China boosts plans to motivate its scientists. Chinese researcher recognized by World Food Prize. Breakthrough new rice variety announced in Northern China. Ebola vaccine approved in China. Study reveals anti-cancer properties of a fungus used in traditional medicine. CRISPR bacon: Chinese scientists create genetically modified low-fat pigs. A new weapon of fighting Malaria. Gene sequencing technology saw rapid growth in China. Chinese scientists map genome sequences for Peony. Werum IT Solutions and Neotrident sign partnership in China.


Nature ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 567 (7748) ◽  
pp. S3-S3
Author(s):  
Sarah O’Meara

Author(s):  
Sevki Adem ◽  
Volkan Eyupoglu ◽  
Iqra Sarfraz ◽  
Azhar Rasul ◽  
Muhammad Ali

COVID-19, a rapidly spreading new strain of coronavirus, has affected more than 150 countries and received worldwide attention. The lack of efficacious drugs or vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 has further worsened the situation. Thus, there is an urgent need to boost up research for the development of effective therapeutics and affordable diagnostic against COVID-19. The crystallized form of SARS-CoV-2 main protease (Mpro) was demonstrated by a Chinese researcher Liu et al. (2020) which is a novel therapeutic drug target. This study was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of medicinal plant-based bioactive compounds against COVID-19 Mpro by molecular docking study. Molecular docking investigations were performed by using Molegro Virtual Docker 7 to analyze the inhibition probability of these compounds against COVID-19. COVID-19 Mpro was docked with 80 flavonoid compounds and the binding energies were obtained from the docking of (PDB ID: 6LU7: Resolution 2.16 Å) with the native ligand. According to obtained results, hesperidin, rutin, diosmin, apiin, diacetylcurcumin, (E)-1-(2-Hydroxy-4-methoxyphenyl)-3-[3-[(E)-3-(2-hydroxy-4- methoxyphenyl)-3-oxoprop-1-enyl]phenyl]prop-2-en-1-one, and beta,beta'-(4-Methoxy-1,3- phenylene)bis(2'-hydroxy-4',6'-dimethoxyacrylophenone have been found as more effective on COVID-19 than nelfinavir. So, this study will pave a way for doing advanced experimental research to evaluate the real medicinal potential of these compounds to cure COVID-19.


2012 ◽  
Vol 610-613 ◽  
pp. 2053-2057
Author(s):  
Mei Li ◽  
Hang Xu ◽  
Shuhua Dai ◽  
Zhi Qiang Liang

At present, many researchers focus on UV/H2O2 technology which is used to treat wastewater. In this paper, using “UV” and “Hydrogen Peroxide” as key words, all literatures in EI Index from 1969 to 2011 were searched by principle of literature metrology analysis. A detailed analysis was carried out in view of the year, journal, institution, country and language to reveal the status of international research and development on this technology. The statistics results show that a total of 1936 articles is published in 42 years and the literature number has increased year by year. The most articles were published in the last 10 years. Chinese researcher publishes the most articles all over the word. University is the main publication institution and English is the main language. Most of the articles were published on Journal of Hazardous Materials, Water Research and Water Science & Technology.


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