Chinese nanotech pioneer leaves US, panda stem cell breakthrough: 7 science highlights

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1. Top US scientist and nanotech ‘world leader’ resigns to work in China

A world-leading nanoscience and nanotechnology scientist – known as “the father of nanogenerators” – has left his decades-long career in the US to focus his research efforts in his native China.

2. Respected mathematician Kenji Fukaya leaves US for China’s Tsinghua University

Award-winning Japanese mathematician Kenji Fukaya has left Stony Brook University in the US to join China’s Tsinghua University as a full-time professor.

3. Chinese scientists hope panda stem cell breakthrough can help species survive

There are thought to be just 2,000 giant pandas left in the wild. Photo: Xinhua
There are thought to be just 2,000 giant pandas left in the wild. Photo: Xinhua

Chinese scientists have created a type of self-renewing stem cell from giant pandas for the first time, an important step for the conservation and preservation of the animals and possibly other endangered species.

  

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