| | | Dr. Yan's work focuses on cellular membrane-bound ion channel proteins and hetero-nuclear RNA splicesome (maturation of transcribed RNA into translatable mRNA), which are both essential biological process. Hence, they are mainly of pure academic value, but of very little, if any, practical use. Moreover, protein structure research employing AI carried out in another lab (at Washington U. in Seattle?) is much more productive and practical than hers.
Interesting read about academia and competition, since Team Biden noted that biotech is a USA-China battlefield
Competition should propel progress, so it is baffling to me as to what does 'battlefield' mean herein. Taking COVID-19 mRNA expressing fragment of S protein targeting ACE2 as an example, the background dot-dot straightline logic is even more troubling. Just like the flawed measure of national power merely by GDP, while everything else, such as debt, is omitted. Biology of life is a dynamic network of thousands of biochemical reactions in equilibrium, namely in a fashion of homeostasis, under integration of physiology, such as circulation, hormone, and, of course, nervous system. Biotech has to adopt systemic and dynamic approaches to be meaningfully helpful to enhance human health. In this sense, traditional medical intellectual properties, both western and oriental, have virtue and should be further developed. JMHO |
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