China Has Achieved Greatly In GENOME Research

2007-10-18

Chinanews, Beijing, October 16 – “Since China took up the task of 1% of the GENOME research, so great achievement has been made that China has won itself the right to speak in this field. Now we can even say that China has changed the international pattern of GENOME research,” said Deng Yajun, a gene-biologist in Beijing, the director of the Legal Identification Center of Beijing Genomics Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The GENOME research project was launched by developed countries including Britain, the US and Japan. With the effort of several Chinese scientists, China has joined in the project and now it has the access to all its fruit.

After completing the task of the GENOME project, China has also taken up 10% of the HAPMAP project.

The GENOME project, however, is just beginning for human beings to understand the function of genes, and HAPMAP will be the key piece of this great jig-saw puzzle.