Tue, 21-Oct-2025

The rise of virtual human

virtual human

BEIJING – The young woman, Cuixiaopan, is busy monitoring the overdue tasks and outstanding operations, and emailing reminders to colleagues. She won the 2021 Outstanding Newcomer Award of China Vanke Co. Ltd, one of the country’s major property developers, and works around the clock untiringly. As bizarre it may sound, overtime and overwork aren’t concerns … Read more

China speeds up COVID-19 medicine development

China speeds up COVID-19 medicine development

BEIJING: With the world still in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese scientists are accelerating the development of COVID-19 medicines. Tsinghua University, the Third People’s Hospital of Shenzhen and Brii Biosciences have jointly developed a cocktail therapy of monoclonal antibodies BRII-196 and BRII-198, which are derived from antibodies isolated from people who had recovered … Read more