Sun Fanglin, Chinese scientist who paved the way for new cancer drugs, dies aged 58

Sun Fanglin, a leading Chinese scientist and director of the Advanced Institute of Translational Medicine at Tongji University, died on July 10 at age 58. According to an obituary posted by the institute, Sun’s research into cell aging and epigenetics provided a core theoretical framework for new anti-tumour drugs and cell therapies, specifically by discovering … Read more

Space Reproduction: Chinese Study Reveals New Challenges and Potential Solutions

Human reproduction in space faces significant biological hurdles, according to a recent study by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics and Tsinghua University. Experiments conducted aboard two Tianzhou cargo missions reveal that microgravity and cosmic radiation disrupt the development of human reproductive cells, with precursor germ cell generation dropping … Read more