China science, technology news summary -- Aug. 7

Xinhua
07 Aug 2022, 21:48 GMT+10

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- The following is a summary of published science and technology news in China.

TIGER LINEAGE IDENTIFICATION

Chinese paleontologists identified an extinct and deeply divergent tiger lineage from a fossil found in northeastern China, revealing a more complex evolutionary picture of the big cats.

The researchers from China University of Geosciences, Wuhan found that the ancient lineage diverged from modern tigers approximately 268,000 years ago. More than twice the known age of modern tigers' maternal ancestor, living around 125,000 years ago.

SATELLITE DATA

China has received data from its newly launched terrestrial ecosystem carbon monitoring satellite.

The satellite was carried into space on Thursday by a Long March-4B rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province.

Since Thursday night, ground stations located in Beijing and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have tracked and received the data from the satellite in three tasks, which lasted 25 minutes with a total size of 306 GB.

BRAIN CANCER TREATMENT

Chinese and U.S. scientists have proposed a new drug delivery system that can improve immune therapy treatment for brain cancer.

The researchers from Shandong University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison designed an injectable hydrogel that contains nanoparticles targeting the glioma stem cells.

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