A team of international scientists has found a tapeworm body fossil in a mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber, dating back approximately 100 million years, according to the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This fossil displays unique external and internal features that are most consistent with the tentacles of extant trypanorhynch tapeworms that parasitize marine elasmobranchs (mainly sharks and rays).
The joint scientific expedition conducted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Indonesia's National Research and Innovation Agency successfully dived 7,178 meters deep into the Java Trench in the Indian Ocean, setting the deepest dive record for Indonesia, the expedition team said Saturday.
A team of Chinese researchers has discovered a new species of asparagus in the Dabie Mountains in central China's Hubei Province and named it Asparagus dabieshanensis, according to the Wuhan Botanical Garden (WBG), under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
A Chinese research team has developed a multicellular scaffold based on inorganic bioceramics for treating tendon-to-bone injuries. Restriction of motor activity due to loss of natural structure is a major cause of decreased life quality in patients suffering from tendon-to-bone injuries.
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