■Our reporter Xu Qimin
A forum focused on life sciences, why are mathematicians, physicists, and computer scientists all here? At the 4th World Top Scientist Forum · Life Science 3.
Nowadays, the crossover and integration of various disciplines is promoting the development of life sciences from the past descriptive and qualitative research stage to the overall and quantitative research stage
"It has been 43 years since I wrote the textbook "Cell Biochemistry", but every time it is revised, I feel that there are many things that I have not figured out yet
China and India In fact, as early as the 1940s, physicists had put forward similar ideas, but the integration between disciplines was very slow
He called on young scientists not to "follow the fashion", and to do basic research in a down-to-earth manner
The 2020 Turing Prize winner Alfred Aihou believes that computational biology integrates biology, chemistry, computers, medicine, physics, philosophy, etc.
James Rothman, the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is also very good at "crossing boundaries".
"In the same department, more than a dozen young professors are all engaged in the same research, such as optical tweezers, single-molecule tools, etc.
Undoubtedly, the development of life sciences has benefited from interdisciplinary integration
However, in the opinion of Effie Demanov, the 1994 Fields Medal winner, the development of life sciences in the 21st century is likely to become one of the driving forces for the development of mathematics
In fact, a large number of problems encountered in life science research are driving the development of various tools including artificial intelligence
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