China officially launched pig genome sequencing program (7.5)

OA show ('918 '); China News Agency, Beijing, July 3 - Chinese scientists today announced the official launch of the second project of the "China biological resources genome project" - China and Denmark pig genome sequencing project, hoping to use the obtained genome sequence information to greatly promote pig variety improvement, xenotransplantation and biomedical research This is another important action taken by Chinese scientists in the field of genome research and biological industry after China successfully completed the sequencing task of 1% of the "working framework map" of the global human genome project According to the information from the Institute of genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, although Germany, Denmark and other European Union countries have jointly started the research, the significance of the above research in China is even more significant: pork is the main source of 1.3 billion Chinese animal proteins; transgenic research on pigs may not only open up new sources of xenotransplantation for humans, but also the pharmaceutical industry A large number of transgenic drugs can be developed by using transgenic pigs China is the largest pork producer and consumer in the world Pig production and consumption involve the interests of more than one billion Chinese consumers and hundreds of millions of pig farmers By deciphering the genetic code of domestic pigs, it is expected to carry out genetic improvement and greatly improve the quality of pork and the economic benefits of pig industry More importantly, the relationship between human and pig is close Pig has always been an important animal model to study human diseases Decoding its genetic code at the molecular level will help human to study some problems By participating in the human genome project, China has now surpassed France and Germany in genome sequencing capacity, ranking fourth in the world, second only to the United States, Britain and Japan China hybrid super rice genome project, the first project of China biological resources genome project, was launched in May this year Biotechnology is one of the most important high technologies in the world Many scientists believe that the impact of this technology on human beings will exceed that of information technology (end) China feed industry information network MHQ (author:)