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'Unacceptable': Award-winning writer talks about Beijing censored film broadcast in Australia

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If you watch the film China One Second on a streaming platform, you won’t see credit to the author whose book inspired the film. That’s because Chinese authorities have managed to remove any mention of the globally renowned Chinese-American writer Yan Geling, both in China and abroad. The film — directed by renowned Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou — is available in Australia from platforms including Prime Video, Google Play and Apple TV. “I can understand if you don’t want to include my name because censorship doesn’t allow it in China,” Yan told the ABC from his home in Berlin. “However, this kind of practice is not acceptable abroad. The initial and life spirit of a work is given by the original author.” Director Zhang Yimou directed the opening ceremonies for the 2008 and 2022 Beijing Olympics. ( Reuters: Christina Charisius ) Born in Shanghai into a family of artists, Yan – a prolific book writer and screenwriter who has won more than 30 literary and film awards and is a member of t

Taste sensors keep proteins in flies: New role for adult proteins in development

A set of genes that promote the sensation of sweetness are also important for protein management during fly development, according to a new study by Eugenia Piddini of the University of Bristol, UK, and colleagues, published July 21. st in open access journal PLOS Biology . These findings broaden the understanding of key processes in successful development, and demonstrate a link between taste-related genes and impaired protein aggregation. Protein homeostasis, or proteostasis, is a set of processes that maintain cellular proteins in a functional state, and remove damaged proteins that cannot be repaired. Ribosomes are multi-protein molecular machinery that synthesizes proteins, and mutations in the genes encoding ribosomal proteins not only impair protein synthesis but also impair proteostasis, leading to chronic proteotoxic stress. That stress, in turn, has a number of cellular consequences and results in delayed development and other irregularities. To better understand the distu