BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- The following are the highlights of China's science news from the past week:
TRANSGENIC MONKEYS
-- Researchers from China and the United States have created transgenic monkeys carrying a human gene that is important for brain development, and the monkeys showed human-like brain development.
FEMALE INFERTILITY GENE
-- Chinese researchers have recently made a breakthrough in discovering the phenotypes and genes responsible for female infertility.
GREEN SUPER RICE
-- Chinese agriculture scientists have bred new rice varieties named "Green Super Rice (GSR)" for developing Asian and African countries to reduce hunger and increase local farmers' income.
OBSERVATION PLANS FOR FAST
-- An international team of astronomers are making observation plans for the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), by far the largest telescope ever built, expecting discoveries to change human understanding of the universe.
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE TREATMENT
-- Chinese researchers have found why cholesterol-control drug gemfibrozil and synthetic chemical pirinixic acid could be used to treat Alzheimer's disease. Enditem
