China’s Largest Science Facility in Operation

The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF), a third-generation of synchrotron radiation light source, has opened its door to users recently.     

Science and the ‘modern values of control’

Conclusion  This is a challenging book and it addresses important questions. This review has focused on what I think is the most important question of all: just what is the relationship between the ‘strategies’ which drive modern science and the social values which guide the societies we live in. I have much sympathy with the way in which Lacey tries to answer this question and how he tries to open up alternative possibilities and give us a view of the future which is not just a continuing catalogue of environmental disaster ‘for the relief of man's estate’. However, I have expressed doubts as to whether he has been entirely successful in this regard, especially concerning the alternatives to the materialist strategies.     

Molecular mechanism of horsefly’s antithrombotic effect

Horseflies are a blood-feeding arthropod, notorious as a common pest of animals and sometimes of humans. While a target of the biological control in green farming and animal husbandry, dried bodies of the females, known as mangchong, are used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) to treat cardiovascular diseases. Although the unique drug is believed to contain various bioactive substances, little has been known about its biochemical functions in the secretion of the insect's salivary glands and, in parti...