Merkel visits Wuhan

Angela Merkel on Saturday visited Central China’s Wuhan during her 12th trip to the country as German Chancellor since 2005.

Before Wuhan, capital city of Hubei Province, Merkel had visited a number of cities besides Beijing during her China trips in the past. When talking with students of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Merkel highlighted the importance of international cooperation in the era of globalization, and called on the students to be participants.

Frozen tissue birth

The country’s first baby has been born using a technique in which a woman’s ovarian* tissue was frozen and then transplanted back at Shanghai Changzheng Hospital.

The 28-year-old woman was suffering from premature ovarian failure and had tried almost every kind of assisted reproductive technology to become pregnant, including in vitro fertilization*, but to no avail. After hearing that a team led by Professor Li Wen, director of the hospital’s reproductive medicine center, had developed the technique of transplanting cryopreserved* ovarian tissue, she and her husband went to the hospital and tried the new treatment.

First cloned kitten

Would you shell out 250,000 yuan (US$34,985) to clone your beloved Mr. Whiskers? That’s the asking price for one pet cloning company in China, which has now reportedly become the first in the country to create a genetically identical cat.

Seven months after Huang Yu’s pet cat Garlic died, the British shorthair was given a 10th life. Born on July 21, the new Garlic was created by Chinese firm Sinogene, becoming the Beijing-based company’s first successfully copied cat.

Facial recognition

Ditching classes, sleeping or playing with mobile phones in class may become history at one university in Nanjing in East China’s Jiangsu Province as the school is testing a facial recognition system in some of its classrooms, thepaper.cn reported.

The system, which can automatically monitor the attendance and behavior of students, is on trail in two classrooms and other campus locations at China Pharmaceutical University. (SD-Agencies)