MT gene engineering strain of giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) which was carried by the Shijian-8 seed breeding satellite successfully returned on Sept. 24th after its first travel to outer space for 15 days. On Sept. 30th, a handover ceremony for the returned strain was held by the Beijing Head Office for Space Satellite Application and the project principals of the Hunan Runfu Bioengineering Co., Ltd. After isolation and culture experiments of the returned strain, the scientists announced that the scheduled tasks had been completed perfectly. At present, the project is on the stage of breeding experimentation on the earth.

　　MT gene engineering strain of giant salamander was applied to aerospace mutation breeding experiments for the first time in China. The strain was provided by the Hunan Runfu Bioengineering Co., Ltd., and transferred by the Beijing Head Office for Space Satellite Application to the Shijian-8 seed breeding satellite designed and manufactured by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. In the middle of August, principals of the Beijing Head Office for Space Satellite Application and Prof. Zhuang Fengyuan of the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics visited the giant salamander breeding base of the Hunan Runfu Bioengineering Co., Ltd. The project caught each side's attention, and then a cooperation agreement was reached soon.

Materials were being loaded on the Shijian-8 seed breeding satellite

The handover ceremony for the returned MT gene engineering strain of giant salamander which was loaded on the Shijian-8 seed breeding satellite

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