Scientists list year's 10 top questions

2020-11-12

Ten major scientific questions that are crucial for humanity's socioeconomic development-covering public health, security and resource management-were released by scientists at a forum in Beijing on Monday.

Hsien Wu, the founder of Chinese biochemistry and nutriology

2020-11-10

Hsien Wu (1893-1959) was a world-renowned biochemist and nutrition scientist with excellent achievements in protein chemistry, clinical chemistry, immunochemistry, nutriology and so on.

Researcher asked by top journal to pen paper on human brain

2020-11-10

At the invitation of the journal Current Opinion in Neurobiology, researcher Wang Xiaoqun, from the Institute of Biophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, wrote and on Oct 30 published the paper "Modeling brain development and diseases with human cerebral organizations".

China to deepen sci-tech institutional reform, international cooperation

2020-11-09

China will further advance the reform of sci-tech governance system, and optimize the national sci-tech planning system and operation mechanism, according to the full text of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee's development proposals made public on Nov 2.

BSC members receive prestigious national science awards

2020-11-06

Members of Biophysical Society of China (BSC) were given prestigious national science awards at the presentation ceremony of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize, held in Beijing on Nov 3.

China fosters research on brain-inspired computing

2020-11-03

The human brain is dubbed "the world's most sophisticated computer" and Chinese scientists are fostering research on brain-inspired computing systems, which have the potential to drive the next wave of computer engineering.