Recently, to enhance the management and treatment of Rare Diseases and protect the patients’ rights and interests, National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China planed to establish a National Network of Rare Diseases Diagnosis and Treatment Cooperation, in which Lanzhou University Second Hospital was selected as a member....

There are only a few birds living in arid desert and they mainly perch on the ground. Generally, several birds can be detected in 1 kilometer but leaving no trace of wrings in decades kilometers. If anything, wader can be seen in xerothermic summer. BadainJaran Desert is an easily concealed landscape with good natural environment, in which over 110 lakes with water accumulation all year around exist. Hygrophyte such as Phragmites communis and Typha orientalis Presl growing along these lakes prov...

On February 15 th , Science reportedthe collaboration work titled as “Double-negative-indexceramic aerogels for thermal superinsulationan” , which was jointly completed by Lanzhou University, Harbin Institute of Technology, UCLA, UC Berkeley, etc. Prof.Qiangqiang Zhang, a young scholar from College of Civil Engineering and Mechanics of Lanzhou University, was listed as the co-first author as well as Xiang Xu (UCLA, Harbin Institute of Technology) andMenglong Hao (UC Berkeley). Prof. Hui Li (Harb...