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News on China's scientific and technological development.
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China is now No 2 in metaverse-related global patent applications with a nearly 30 percent share gathered through its 14,291 applications. China trails the US which has filed 17,293 applications, accounting for nearly 36 percent of the total covering the period from 2011 to 2020..
Ok so regarding GMOs, development is difficult yes, but that just means that China should have gotten started earlier, much earlier. At the very least, sort out regulations to allow for the planting of domestic crops so that companies can at least feel safe enough to actually start some major R&D, but with a strict selection process so that no rushed unsafe or abusive products are released. I know that China is reforming it's GMO regulations, but it's so slow that it's going to be 2025 before we see GMO crops being planted on Chinese soil and another couple of years before it really takes off and public acceptance, it really should have been done 20 years ago.
It's not like it's a new technology, basic GMOs have been around for 40 years. CRISPR just brings it into the next level. Also CRISPR makes things so much easier, as compared to the current method of cross breeding or random mutation, which can take decades to produce results. CRISPR makes things so easy that there's hobbyist and amateurs doing gene splicing experiments in their back yard that would have taken an entire team of PHDs and a billion dollar lab 20 years ago. That's why the threat of bioterrorism is so high, CRISPR just makes things too easy.
And for those who think that it's "evil business technology" it's just a technology, it's up to the country and companies developing it to decide how they want to use it. It's like rejecting the very idea of painkillers because Purdue Pharma is making people addicted to them as a business practise or saying that water is bad just because Nestle steals water from developing countries. There's plenty of ways that GMO can be used to avoid the current bad business practise that we see with Monsanto, focus on areas that improve grow speed and not herbicides/pesticides resistance to avoid herbicides/pesticides overuse, avoid a monopoly/duopoly and try to have maybe half a dozen companies offering completing products, have the state develop some GMO crops and give them to farmers for free, open source seeds etc etc
It's an extremely important techolohny for the most important part of the economy and for civilization itself, especially with how much food China is importing.
It's not like it's a new technology, basic GMOs have been around for 40 years. CRISPR just brings it into the next level. Also CRISPR makes things so much easier, as compared to the current method of cross breeding or random mutation, which can take decades to produce results. CRISPR makes things so easy that there's hobbyist and amateurs doing gene splicing experiments in their back yard that would have taken an entire team of PHDs and a billion dollar lab 20 years ago. That's why the threat of bioterrorism is so high, CRISPR just makes things too easy.
And for those who think that it's "evil business technology" it's just a technology, it's up to the country and companies developing it to decide how they want to use it. It's like rejecting the very idea of painkillers because Purdue Pharma is making people addicted to them as a business practise or saying that water is bad just because Nestle steals water from developing countries. There's plenty of ways that GMO can be used to avoid the current bad business practise that we see with Monsanto, focus on areas that improve grow speed and not herbicides/pesticides resistance to avoid herbicides/pesticides overuse, avoid a monopoly/duopoly and try to have maybe half a dozen companies offering completing products, have the state develop some GMO crops and give them to farmers for free, open source seeds etc etc
It's an extremely important techolohny for the most important part of the economy and for civilization itself, especially with how much food China is importing.
Chinese researchers devised a new islet transplantation strategy, in which human pluripotent stem-cell-derived islets are implanted in subanterior rectus sheath, highlighting a potential cure for type 1 diabetes and the possibility to free diabetes patients from insulin injection..
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