China News Online, December 30 (Guo Qi and Xu Jing) The "Decoding Life" (Second Edition) has gathered nearly 200 well-known experts and scholars in the field of life sciences at home and abroad, including the work results of a team of 17 academicians Held at the Bio-X Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University on the 30th.
The book is edited by Professor He Lin, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, dean of the Bio-X Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University, and member of the China Democratic League.
The whole book is composed of "Human Genome Project and Related Projects", "Genome Project Guides the Strong Development of Biotechnology", "Current Understanding and Expansion of Human Genome", "Clinical Application of Genomics" and "Synthesis of Life, Artificial Intelligence and Others" Five chapters are composed of 50 chapters, divided into two volumes, with a total of more than 2.4 million words, covering genomics, new medicine, genetic counseling, phenotyping, biochips, gene editing, stem cells, synthetic biology, and botany , Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Law, Ethics and other related disciplines development and application.
In response to this year's epidemic, the chapter "Virus and Host: Confrontation or Symbiosis" written by the team of Professor Xu Jianqing from the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center was added.
Chen Qun, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Democratic League, deputy mayor of Shanghai, and chairman of the Democratic League Municipal Committee, congratulated the release of the new book via video.
He said that China's life sciences are accelerating toward the world's cutting-edge level, and the development of life sciences is related to the improvement of the country's comprehensive strength and national health.
Twenty years ago, "Decoding Life" (first edition), edited by Academician He Lin, greatly improved the people's awareness of the Human Genome Project and had a wide-ranging impact in the academic world.
Twenty years later, Academician He Lin led the reprint of "Decoding Life", comprehensively and systematically combing the research results and technological progress in the field of global life sciences over the past 20 years.
It is believed that its launch will attract more people's attention and love for life sciences, and further promote the development of China's life sciences.
"People who are not old in the mountains, the scenery is unique here." Yang Zhenbin, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Jiaotong University, said, "Decoding Life" (Second Edition) is a rare reading that analyzes the mainstream frontiers of life sciences, and Bio-X The 20-year development history of the Institute is a vivid and wonderful actual combat interpretation of "decoding life".
"It can be said that Academician He Lin and his partners have spent a lifetime doing such a great thing as "decoding life"." Yang Zhenbin said that the Bio-X Institute has contributed to the development of the life sciences of Shanghai Jiaotong University since its establishment. Contributions have created three "firsts" in the history of Jiaotong University, including the first 973 chief scientist, the first Nature series papers and the first National Natural Science Second Prize.
It is hoped that Bio-X Research Institute will achieve better results in the future journey and make new and greater contributions to the school's "double first-class" construction.
"At this special moment of'turning the page and New Year's Eve', we brought a breeze to the world, that is, the timely publication of "Decoding Life" (Second Edition), adding a new understanding of life to the world "He Lin expressed his gratitude to all collaborators and supporters, "This is the crystallization of collective wisdom, and it is a good chess game played by everyone."
He Lin reviewed the situation of "Decoding Life" (first edition), which was the first systematic introduction to the Human Genome Project in China, and shared the idea of the second edition.
The book is composed of 5 chapters and 50 chapters with more than 2.4 million words. The first chapter introduces "All Genome-related Projects", the second chapter emphasizes the "rapidly brought up technology", and the third chapter is "The current understanding and expansion of genomes" , The fourth part talks about the "Clinical Application of Genomics" and the "Life Synthesis and Ethical Issues" that the fifth part focuses on, trying to portray all aspects of life, but the core is "decoding life".
"Only by decoding the genes in life, can we better understand life, analyze life, healthy life and prolong life." He Lin said.
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