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On Monday, the market set a new record. This is: WTI prices for light crude oil futures in West Texas in May not only hit a record low, but also fell to a negative value.

• crude oil
• PetroChina
• oil price

Saudi Basic Industries Corporation SABIC has worked with Caijing magazine and Caijing Think Tank for nearly 3 months to conduct a survey of the "Global Economic Confidence Index" for global economists, entrepreneurs, celebrities in the political

• global
• Chemical Industry
• upward
• survey

Affected by factors such as severe oversupply in the U.S. oil market, the contract is about to expire, and Texas will decide whether to cut production, New York oil prices opened lower on the 20th in early trading, continued to fall intraday

• oil price
• fall
• New York

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is an industry-leading RNAi therapy company whose drug Onpattro (patisiran) was approved by the United States and the European Union in August 2018 for hereditary ATTR (hATTR)

• Givlaari
• EU
• Innovation

Since the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus epidemic, global oil and chemical trade flows have rapidly changed with the epidemic situation. According to An Xunsi news, due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic

• trade
• Asia
• Methanol
• Propylene
• Ethylene

The latest research from the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen shows that broad beans have a broad prospect as a source of plant protein and have advantages over soybean protein in environmental protection and nutrition.

• soybean
• broad bean
• protein

A group of global scientists led by Professor Giovanna Felis of Italy, Professor Michael Ganzle of Canada and Professor Sarah Lebeer of Belgium recently published a paper , Announced the change of the name of some bacteria previously classified as

• Lactobacillus genus
• label

U.S. crude oil plunged about 20 percent to below 15 U.S. dollars per barrel on Monday, hitting the lowest level in more than two decades as the COVID-19 pandemic cast a shadow of uncertainty over the global market.

• oil
• crude oil
• U.S.

Probiotics may maintain sailors' intestinal microbiome balance during long sea voyages: research

• Probiotics

Scientists recently gained valuable knowledge about sweet taste receptors that they report could have implications for the food industry, according to a study published in ACS Chemical Neuroscience.

• food
• industry
• sweet
• Health

Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Oxford University compared the environmental effects of producing certain nutrient-dense foods associated with lowering disease risks to the environmental effects of certain animal products.

• Health
• Foods
• Nutrient

A new study from researchers at King’s College London (KCL) found that there is no evidence for or against the use of non-steroidal inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen in COVID-19 patients.

• COVID-19
• treatment

Ever since President Donald Trump said last month that a COVID-19 vaccine could be ready in 12 to 18 months, Wall Street analysts have been warning that the real timeline is likely to be longer, even though more than 40 candidates are in development.

• COVID-19
• Vaccine

China's crude oil output rose 2.4 percent year on year to 48.57 million tonnes in the first quarter (Q1) of 2020, official data showed.

• China
• crude oil

Polyester fabrics coated by polymeric dyes showed bright colours, excellent colour fastness and fame retardant properties.

• Polyester
• Fabrics
• coating

In the first quarter of this year, on the basis of scientific prevention and control of the epidemic situation, Yangmei group took precise measures to comprehensively strengthen the coordination of production organization.

• industry

In the first quarter of this year, Shandong energy group sold 26.1077 million tons of commercial coal, with a production and sales rate of 98.33%.

• coal

A few days ago, the leading group office of Henan Province's overcapacity reduction said that six coal mines in the coal industry in Henan Province will be closed and withdrawn this year.

• coal

Affected by the increase of transfer in and limited transfer out, the inventory of ports around Bohai Sea is increasing, and the pressure of port evacuation is increasing.

• industry

Global data revealed that due to the damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic, global coal production is expected to grow by only 0.5% in 2020.

• production