MACAO - Macao International Airport (MIA) has handled more than 2.33 million passengers in the first quarter, representing 17 percent year-on-year growth, MIA said on Thursday.The airport said in a statement that the flight movements at MIA also recorded an increase of 17 percent year-on-year to over 18,000 movements in the first quarter. The daily average traffic of the airport reached 25,000 passengers and 205 flight movements.MIA added that with the continuous increase of air routes and new airlines entering the market, the markets of Chinese mainland, China's Taiwan region and Southeast Asia recorded increases of 28 percent, 4 percent and 14 percent respectively compared to same period of last year.Passengers traveling with conventional and low-cost airlines increased by 11 percent and 29 percent in the first quarter respectively.MIA said it will continue to develop a diversified aviation market, and cooperate with airline companies to develop other potential medium and long-haul charter routes to help develop Macao as a world tourism and leisure center.It will also accelerate the pace of airport facility improvement in the future to meet the demand of growing passenger traffic, and provide new services such as a check-in center at Macao Border Inspection Building on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. silicone bracelets no minimum ordersilicone diabetic braceletssilicone wristbands no minimumbracelets made with rubber bandssmall silicone wristbands
NANJING -- A Chinese research team used two critical genes to regulate the size of mice organs and bodies as similarly seen in the sci-fi movie Ant-man.The research team, led by Professor Xu Yujun of the Nanjing Medical University in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, said the research could lead to new methods of human tumor therapy.Xu said they removed two genes called Pum1 and Pum2 in the mice's embryonic periods and observed the newborn mice bodies were integrally and proportionally smaller than normal ones. Researchers can exclude the effects of other factors like feeding and growth hormones.Further study showed that mice embryos without Pum1 were already smaller than others during the 13.5 days of their embryonic periods.Knocking out the Pum1 gene did not affect the lifetime or health conditions of the mice, said Xu. He pointed out that the research team observed the mice over 96 weeks, which is equivalent to the human age of 70. No significant defects were shown in the mice.We believe without the Pum1 gene, the growth speed of cells slows, which led to a reduction of cell quantity, said Xu. He explained that the genes play a regulatory role in the process of RNA producing proteins, so as to control the proliferation of cells.Xu said another member of Pum gene family, Pum2, can affect the mice's weight, but its effect was less significant than Pum1.His team has achieved a precise control over the size of mice after they found any reduction of Pum1 or Pum2 can lead to the reduction of size.The mechanism has great potential to be used for treating human tumors, Xu said. A tumor is an abnormal mass of cells that proliferate uncontrollably. We are looking forward to opening a new road for human tumor therapy using gene technology for regulating the speed of cell proliferation.The research result was published in the latest issue of Cell Press, a top international journal in the field of bioscience.
