Nature China highlights the best research coming out of Mainland China and Hong Kong, providing scientists from around the world with a convenient portal into publications drawn from across all scientific disciplines.
MicroRNA detection: Spot the difference
A new method can detect and distinguish microRNAs that differ from each other by only one nucleotide
Botany: External affairs
Researchers in China have direct evidence to show that calmodulin is an extracellular signalling peptide in plants
Microbiology: A bacterium's superbowl
Heat-shock proteins protect Escherichia coli from high temperatures by forming a range of bowl-shaped structures on its lipid membranes
Analytical chemistry: Finding singles
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy has been successfully applied to a single nonpolar molecule
Human evolution: Peking Man just got older
Researchers have dated the 'Peking Man' fossils as 200,000 years older than previously thought
Optics: Invisibility in the vicinity
There is now a way to hide objects at a distance outside the invisibility cloak
