Chinese genome research ranks among the top in the world

Twenty years of deciphering the "Book of Life" Chinese genome research ranks among the top in the world

Twenty years of deciphering the "Book of Life" Chinese genome research ranks among the top in the world Twenty years of deciphering the "Book of Life" Chinese genome research ranks among the top in the world

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of the draft human genome sequence by the international "Human Genome Project" collaboration group
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Twenty years ago, China successfully completed 1% of the tasks of the Human Genome Project

June 26, China Kexue Yuan Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Kexue Yuan Beijing Genomics Institute (National Center for Biotechnology Information) and BGI jointly organized the "celebration of the International Human Genome job sketching and '1% of the projects' completion forum "Review the development history of genomics, and promote the faster and better development of life sciences in our country
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Academy of Sciences

From 1% to the first echelon gene sequencing is engraved with the mark of "China"

From 1% to the first echelon gene sequencing is engraved with the mark of "China"

The "Human Genome Project" was first launched in the United States in 1990, and Britain, Japan, France, and Germany have successively participated to form the international "Human Genome Project" collaboration group.
Its core content is to determine the entire DNA sequence of the human genome to obtain a comprehensive view of humans.
Know your most important biological information
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Will China participate in this "feast" known as the "Apollo Moon Landing Program" in the field of life sciences?

The answer is yes
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In 1994, China’s "Human Genome Project" was initiated by scientists such as Tan Jiazhen, Wu Min, Qiang Boqin, Chen Zhu, Shen Yan, and Yang Huanming

The human genome consists of approximately 3 billion base pairs
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"As the only developing country to participate in this work, since 1999, China focused on a group of biologists and is responsible for determination of one percent of the entire sequence of the human genome, which is sort thirty million bases

Zhong ASTRI ASTRI academicians

On August 26, 2001, Chinese scientists completed the gene sequence map of the "1% project" ahead of schedule with high quality
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"Maybe the '1% project' is a little insignificant for the entire project, but its implementation has brought great significance to the development of genomics in China
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At the same time, the '1% project' has also made a huge impact on the public.

Joining the international "Human Genome Project" will enable China to share all the technologies, resources and data established by the project on an equal footing, and make China one of the few countries in the world that can independently complete large-scale genome analysis
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Yang Huanming said that the 1% share of the "Human Genome Project" "grabbed" by Chinese scientists has carved the word "China" on this important milestone in the history of human science and technology
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More importantly, it has also driven China's gene sequencing technology to catch up and run, and gradually move to the world's first echelon in terms of the development and mass production of sequencers and the development of bioinformatics software

The dawn of the "big science" era of life sciences has begun

The dawn of the "big science" era of life sciences has begun

In the past 20 years, the epoch-making achievements made by the "Human Genome Project" have brought revolutionary changes to human understanding of diseases and species evolution
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By participating in this project, Chinese scientists have been able to learn and catch up with advanced biotechnology in developed countries in a short period of time.
They have completed the rice genome, wheat A genome, and SARS coronavirus genome research, as well as studies on pandas, domestic pigs, domestic chickens, and chickens.
The sequencing and analysis of the genomes of silkworms and other animals have enabled China's genomics research to rank among the top in the world
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In 2010, the dream that scientists had cherished for decades became a reality
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Based on the full sequence of the genome, mutations in the causative genes of each genetic disease were discovered, which made gene therapy achieved good results

"The sequence of the human genome is as important as the periodic table of elements
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It can be said that human life, old age, illness, and death are all related to the genetic information carried by the sequence of the human genome, and its importance is self-evident

He said that the epidemic also reminded us again: Our understanding of life is far from enough
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The "Human Genome Project" not only promotes the development of biology and medicine, but is also actively deepening the "big science" integration of multidisciplinary cooperation in genetics, biochemistry, molecular biology and information science, and jointly constructing the "big data" of life sciences "The era