
By Liu Xingy

Over the centuries, Dunhuang murals, the paintings on the inner walls of the Mogao Grottoes in China, an UNESCO World Heritage Site have been eroded by wind, sandstorms and human activity.Fig. 1: Dunhuang murals stored in DNA.A synthetic biology team at Tianjin University answers the call for mural protection and restoration with DNA-based data storage technology. The team developed a new DNA s...

WHO released the Global Guidance Framework for the Responsible Use of the Life Sciences(Framework) and defined Tianjin Biosecurity Guidelines for Codes of Conduct for Scientists (Tianjin Guidelines) as high-level principle.The Framework is the first global, technical and normative framework for mitigating biorisks and governing dual-use research. It aims to provide values and principles, tool...

Established in January 2000, the School of International Education of Tianjin University administers international student affairs of the whole university and is responsible for Chinese language teaching of international students. The School is responsible for international students’ policy formulation and monitoring, enrollment, entry and exit, logistics support, education, management, and de...

On the Jingye Lake of Weijin Road campus of Tianjin University sits a pavilion with gray tiles. It is one of the landmark buildings of Tianjin University-Qiushi Pavilion (Qiushi means seeking truth).Academician Peng Yigang, a master architect in China and professor of Tianjin University, didn’t follow the traditional approach of building the pavilion inan archaistic, elegant and magnificent wa...

Source: XinhuaEditor: huaxia2022-09-19 16:08:00BEIJING, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- The DNA, a natural structure that has evolved to encode biological information, can be artificially modified into a durable, minuscule "digital museum."A team of Chinese scientists enciphered 10 digital pictures of Dunhuang murals into 210,000 DNA strands through the nucleotide sequences in a 6.8 MB zipped file, and th...