Chinese Academy of Sciences
Warming and increased nitrogen concentrations are expected scenarios in the near future as consequences of the global climatic changes. This may reduce submerged macrophyte growth due to an increase in periphyton biomass, which could significantly affect the function of freshwater ecosystems. However, little is known about the role of increased nitrogen for the growth of macrophytes under warming in shallow phosphorus-enriched lakes.
To investigate the effects of warming on the growth of two macrophyte species (Potamogeton crispus Linn. and Elodea canadensis Michx.) and periphyton on the two species in eutrophic experimental mesocosms with high phosphorus levels, Ph.D. student LIU Yang, supervised by Prof. CAO Yu and Juan Pablo Pacheco from the Wuhan Botanical Garden, conducted a microcosm study on plant and periphyton traits by using an experimental heating facility across warming in spring and early summer (summer showed higher nitrogen loading) in Den
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A Chinese-born husband and wife who became U.S. citizens have been sentenced in a conspiracy to steal sensitive medical research from Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio while being financially supported by the Chinese government, with the couple pursuing the goal of selling the stolen secrets for a profit in China.
Yu Zhou, 51, and Li Chen, 47, of Dublin, Ohio, pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud and conspiring to steal at least five exosome-related trade secrets tied to the identification and treatment of a number of pediatric medical conditions while working at the elite Columbus hospital’s research institute, even as they were receiving benefits from the Chinese government, including China’s State Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
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Dietary sugars and gut microbes play a key role in promoting malaria parasite infection in mosquitoes. Researchers in China have uncovered evidence that mosquitoes fed a sugar diet show an increased abundance of the bacterial species Asaia bogorensis, which enhances parasite infection by raising the gut pH level. The study appears April 20 in the journal
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