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    "Gene therapy will change the future": Nobel Prize winner David Baltimore on the rising life science

    • Last Update: 2016-11-03
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    "Gene therapy is a very powerful medical means, which can overcome the major human diseases, especially many diseases caused by genetic defects, and has a broad application prospect." In an interview, David Baltimore, winner of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1975, said, "this method has cured many children with genetic diseases and achieved surprising results It can be said that gene based therapies will change the world in the future At the invitation of the Chinese Association for science and technology, Baltimore, in the name of the co chairman, attended the "2016 World Conference on life sciences" organized by the consortium of Life Sciences Society of the Chinese Association for science and technology on November 1 in Beijing He, together with nine other Nobel Prize winners, three World Food Prize winners and three Wolff agricultural prize winners, witnessed the feast of life science in the world Gene therapy is most likely to take the lead in breaking through Baltimore He is a famous American biologist and former president of the American Association for the advancement of science He is also a pioneer of DNA recombination technology In 1975, he won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine together with other scientists In 1999, he won the National Science medal for his research on Virology, molecular biology and immunology In a speech at the conference, Baltimore joked about its early achievements with "winning more than 45 years" "The future of life science is for young people, and many of my Chinese disciples have come back here and opened up new research areas," he said He believes that, compared with the western research that has been carried out for several centuries, "China's life science research has made remarkable achievements in decades and made great contributions to the world's life science." When it comes to "which field of life science will be the first to make a major breakthrough and make a significant contribution to human health", Baltimore said without hesitation: "a series of gene based therapies will greatly improve human health and improve life quality in the future, just as it technology will change global human life." Don't be afraid of major changes brought about by new technology The birth of the first "three parent baby" previously reported: Zhang Jin, a Chinese doctor from new hope reproductive center in New York, and his team used the spindle nuclear transfer technology to remove the nucleus from the mother's and donor's eggs first, then inject the nucleus from the mother's egg cells into the donor's egg cells, and fertilize them with the new egg and sperm Using the new technology, Zhang Jin's team managed to have a Jordanian couple give birth to a healthy boy in Mexico without destroying the embryo The boy is now in good health, according to the assessment, after the couple's children died of hereditary encephalopathy For this landmark technology, Baltimore thinks it's "fantastic." This is a major breakthrough based on gene therapy, he said However, it is a pity that this technology has not been protected by American law Based on religion and other factors, similar methods that have been approved in the UK are considered to have ethical and moral risks Between life extension and legal prohibition, Baltimore explicitly chose the former "The legal ban on any technological progress is problematic, which means that we cannot help those in need," he said I don't think there are any moral and ethical problems in this kind of technology Maybe because it is brand-new, some conformists don't want to face it, which is not conducive to the advancement of science and technology and the improvement of law " But he also stressed that "caution is needed in promoting the application of new technologies" The three-day conference of multi-disciplinary integration should start from the University, with 66 sub forums, covering almost all fields of life science research - structural biology, neuroscience, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, infection and immunity, cell imaging, etc Many Nobel Prize winners in chemistry were invited to give keynote speeches The development of life science can not be separated from the integration of cutting-edge technologies of other disciplines How to carry out technology integration across disciplines to promote the progress of life science? Faced with the reporter's question, Baltimore said: "I quite agree with you that the academic achievements of other disciplines, such as computer technology, engineering technology, especially electronic engineering and chemical engineering, have played an active role in the research of life science The academic training of different disciplines brings different ways of thinking, and the integration of disciplines is conducive to the birth of new achievements in the field of biology However, the current university education still divides subjects too clearly, biology, engineering, Chemistry There are different education systems, and that should change " In recent years, biology is very different from the past Scientists have been able to map the human genome, and many animals and plants including bacteria have been completed "With the development of a genetic map, more and more mysteries have emerged New problems are closely linked and interact with each other, and our understanding of life is far from enough Therefore, life science needs to explore the answers with the help of knowledge of other disciplines, which is an important part of modern science " That's what Baltimore says.
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