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Chinese scholars announce breakthough in HIV virus study
(Xinhua) 07:41, January 10, 2014

Chinese scholars announce breakthough in HIV virus study - People's Daily Online

HARBIN: Chinese researchers said they have made a significant breakthrough in the structural analysis of the viral infectivity factor (Vif) of the HIV virus, which will help in the development of new medications to treat or even cure the disease.

The new research was published on the website of science journal "Nature" on Wednesday.It was carried out by a team of Chinese researchers led by Huang Zhiwei, professor of structural molecular biology with the School of Life Science and Technology at Harbin Institute of Technology.

The research reveals the structural analysis of HIV-1 protein Vif, whose role is to subvertantiviral activity.

The results lay a foundation for the design of novel anti-HIV drugs, the paper said. The Chinese team launched the research program in March 2012.

Ever since the AIDS virus was discovered in 1981, people have had insufficient knowledge of the virus itself, including the structure of Vif, which is extremely important to virus infection and replication, said Huang.

Analyzing Vif structure is vital to the design of AIDS treatment medicines, Huang added.

The study of Vif structure has been the most important subject for scientists worldwide on AIDS in recent years.

China is the first to come out with research achievements on the subject, showing it is at the forefront of structural molecular biology study in AIDS, according to Huang.

The research team has begun cooperation with drug producers to develop new types of medicines for treating AIDS, Huang told Xinhua on Thursday.

"After medicine development succeeds, it will break a new path for treating AIDS worldwide, even hopefully curing it," Huang said, adding that it will also pave the way for Chinese-made drugs to fight HIV/AIDS.

China has about 434,000 people living with HIV/AIDS, according to government statistics.Worldwide, the number reached about 35 million at the end of 2012.


Here the above research paper published in Nature:

Structural basis for hijacking CBF-[bgr] and CUL5 E3 ligase complex by HIV-1 Vif : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

 

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We have successfully completed more than 300 meters saturation diving:

我国首次人工潜入300米深海探摸成功|深海|人工潜入300米深海底|潜水_新浪新闻

We will be attempting greater depths in the near future!

Some pix:

Credit: Xinhuanet and Huangqiu

 

[cirr]

We have successfully completed more than 300 meters saturation diving:

我国首次人工潜入300米深海探摸成功|深海|人工潜入300米深海底|潜水_新浪新闻

We will be attempting greater depths in the near future!

Firing on all barrels。

 

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The saturation diving is preparing to work in conjunction with our deep sea exploration station here:

Video clip of our 龙宫 Dragon Palace testing in water

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Credit：csic.com.cn

 

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China Focus: Top natural science prize honors superconductor findings - Xinhua | English.news.cn

Diagram of the Iron-based hightemperature superconductors
Credit: China Academy of Science

BEIJING, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Following a three-year vacancy, China's top natural science prize in its annual national science award was given for the discovery of iron-based compounds as high-temperature superconductors and research on their traits.

Superconductivity refers to a phenomenon where electrons travel with no resistance when a conducting material, known as a superconductor, is cooled below a certain temperature.

With applications in a range of high-tech inventions, superconductivity has become a part of daily life, from boosting cell phone signals to offering medical imaging.

At Friday's award ceremony, leading project contributors, including Zhao Zhongxian and Chen Xianhui, received the 200,000-yuan (33,040 U.S. dollars) prize on behalf of their research team with the Institute of Physics under Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the University of Science and Technology.

Most superconductors only work at temperatures close to 0 kelvin, or -273.15 degrees Celsius -- the lowest temperature possible, known as absolute zero.

The discovery marked a new "family" of iron-based superconducting materials that lift the highest temperature for resistance-free flow to 55k, Chen said.

The discovery was listed as a major achievement by science media and academic groups, including American magazine Science, which selected it among the top ten major scientific breakthroughs of 2008.

Ten people working in the superconductivity field have previously won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

"Awards are not the original motive for scientific exploration ... If a group of people go in the right direction and make constant and no-nonsense efforts, they will find discoveries that benefit humans," Zhao said.

The Chinese government has given the award to distinguished scientists and achievements for 14 consecutive years. The award is aimed at boosting innovation-fueled development.

Official figures show that this year's prize winners have an average age of 46.6, revealing a growing trend of young and middle-aged talents becoming the main force in the country's science and technology cause.

Winners of a second prize in the natural science category for their research on carbon-hydrogen bond activation include 39-year-old first contributor Professor Shi Zhangjie with Peking University. The team's youngest member is only 27.

China aims to build itself into an innovative country by 2020, when scientific progress will contribute nearly 60 percent of the nation's economic growth, according to a national science and technology development plan.

 

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Another nice reporting by cirr here:

China establishes advanced science research centers

 

[dontsuspendme]

Does not china already have infinite technology and the most powerful?

 

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Does not china already have infinite technology and the most powerful?

We set our own courses in R and D.
What others see us, if not retarded / derogatory as that bloke on the net like @gambit, are up to the writers perception.

 

[gambit]

Does not china already have infinite technology and the most powerful?

Yes...It is called 'Chinese physics'. It is inscrutable and if you are not racially Chinese, you cannot comprehend it. Never can. 'Chinese physics' are most prominent on the Internet. Its principles are infinitely flexible, depending on the Chinese person's perspectives on things technical.

 

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Yes...It is called 'Chinese physics'. It is inscrutable and if you are not racially Chinese, you cannot comprehend it. Never can. 'Chinese physics' are most prominent on the Internet. Its principles are infinitely flexible, depending on the Chinese person's perspectives on things technical.

Chinese physicists are some of the best in the world
There are so many articles written by Chinese physicists in reputed journals BUT those are not for people of your level of capacity to understand
Take your pills!

 

[gambit]

Chinese physicists are some of the best in the world
There are so many articles written by Chinese physicists in reputed journals BUT those are not for people of your level of capacity to understand
Take your pills!

Yes...And I have great respect for them. But they uses real physics, not 'Chinese physics'.

An example of 'Chinese physics' is on this forum where a Chinese member who claimed to be a physics professor, probably at some local community college somewhere, declared that the 10-lambda rule violated Born Approximation. Despite ample evidences presented to the man, from Chinese to Iranian sources, he never admitted his error on a public forum. And when it comes to the J-20, 'Chinese physics' abounds.

 

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Yes...And I have great respect for them. But they uses real physics, not 'Chinese physics'.

An example of 'Chinese physics' is on this forum where a Chinese member who claimed to be a physics professor, probably at some local community college somewhere, declared that the 10-lambda rule violated Born Approximation. Despite ample evidences presented to the man, from Chinese to Iranian sources, he never admitted his error on a public forum. And when it comes to the J-20, 'Chinese physics' abounds.

just GTFO!
it was the comment made by one member and you are insulting all Chinese Physicists!

 

[gambit]

just GTFO!
it was the comment made by one member and you are insulting all Chinese Physicists!

No...I made fun of the Chinese members here. Not professional Chinese scientists and engineers. If I used Chinese sources to prove the man wrong, then how can I have insulted real professionals?

 

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No...I made fun of the Chinese members here. Not professional Chinese scientists and engineers. If I used Chinese sources to prove the man wrong, then how can I have insulted real professionals?

just GTFO! take your pills properly!

 

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just GTFO! take your pills properly!

But i am surprized that china is still putting some effort on research.
As per PDF chinese, they say china is already saturated with lots of technology...