Technology becomes the booster of national health work

  On the afternoon of December 1, 2015, the Department of social development of the Ministry of science and technology organized a kick-off meeting for the preparation of the 13th five year plan for science and technology in the field of population health and biotechnology in Beijing Relevant leaders from the Ministry of science and technology, the development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of industry and information technology, the health and Family Planning Commission, the Chinese medicine bureau, the Ministry of foreign affairs, the Ministry of education, the state people's Commission, the state owned assets supervision and Administration Commission, the Ministry of housing and construction, the Ministry of environmental protection, the Ministry of agriculture, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of quality supervision and inspection, the State Food and drug administration, the forestry administration, the Academy of Sciences, the natural science foundation and other departments attended the meeting As "the most important technology to the whole society and possibly to change the industrial and economic pattern in the future", biotechnology has been highly valued by the state and departments at all levels, and the policy support has been unprecedentedly strong The state is vigorously cultivating and developing biotechnology industry Significance of Biotechnology Development: With the development of biotechnology, many new problems, new ideas and new challenges have been put forward in chemistry, mathematics, physics, materials, information engineering and other disciplines, which promote these disciplines to continuously open up new research fields The development of biotechnology industry is of great significance to improve people's living environment and quality of life, especially for a country with a large population and few resources per capita, the development of biotechnology industry has more important strategic significance The positive effect of biotechnology on human health: 1 Disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment The proportion of investment in pharmaceutical biotechnology and the product market all occupy the first place in the field of biotechnology The application of biotechnology in the field of medicine involves new drug development, new diagnosis technology, preventive measures and new treatment technology, such as monoclonal antibody, gene diagnosis, fluorescence detection, gene chip and so on These techniques can diagnose diseases quickly, sensitively and simply Food biotechnology is the most active, rapid industrial development and most significant benefit area in the field of biotechnology The development of biotechnology in the food industry will show the following trends To make the food more natural and fresh; to pursue the low fat, cholesterol, calories and nutrition of the food; to enhance the stability of the quality of the food during storage; to use no or less chemical synthetic additives Therefore, formula foods with special medical uses, such as immune regulation, anti-aging, anti fatigue, anti hypoxia, anti radiation, regulation of blood lipid, adjustment of gastrointestinal function, etc., will become the focus of biotechnology development in the future All of these play a certain role in improving human health and quality of life 2 Biopharmaceutical Biopharmaceuticals have changed the raw materials, processes and production methods of traditional pharmaceuticals, produced drugs with special efficacy, and helped medicine overcome many stubborn diseases that threaten human health and life Antibiotics are the most familiar and widely used biotechnology drugs At present, the gene engineering protein drugs are mainly used in the treatment of cancer, AIDS, bacterial infection, metabolic diseases, blood diseases, diabetes and so on The recombinant vaccine produced by genetic engineering can achieve the goal of safety and efficiency, such as viral hepatitis vaccine, cholera, dysentery, Schistosoma vaccine and so on 3 HGP's contribution to human disease gene research HGP plays an important role in the diagnosis of human diseases In the past, it took a long time to find out which gene caused the disease With the gene map, the process will be greatly shortened The gene map will help scientists to find new drugs to treat diseases To understand the function of genes on proteins, scientists can design gene drugs, use the command of gene release to repair or manufacture proteins, so that proteins can control the normal operation of human cells or organs according to the requirements, and achieve the purpose of treatment 4 Transgenic animals and plants Through genetic engineering to improve the nutritional level of food, we can contribute to improve the global human nutritional status The emergence of transgenic animals and crops provides new, high-quality and healthy food for human beings Among them, the development of transgenic plants is particularly rapid According to statistics, there are more than 4000 kinds of genetically modified food in the United States, which has become a common commodity in people's daily life 5 Application of biotechnology in environmental protection Modern biotechnology not only plays an important role in crop improvement, pharmaceutical research and food engineering, but also plays an important role in environmental monitoring, industrial cleaner production, industrial waste and urban domestic waste treatment, harmless treatment of toxic and harmful substances, etc with increasingly prominent environmental problems For example, the use of biotechnology to deal with waste, that is, through degradation to destroy the molecular structure of pollutants, and degradation products and by-products can be reused by biology, which will help reduce the environmental pollution caused by human activities to a minimum In addition, fermentation engineering technology can also be used to deal with pollutants