艾滋病新药生物燃料等将参展国际生物经济大会
 
文章来源：北方网 | 时间：2009年06月20日
　　治疗癌症和艾滋病的新药、能替代汽油的生物燃料、优质高产的转基因农作物……如今,生物技术与百姓生活的关系愈发密切。记者从市政府新闻办获悉,我国生物经济领域最具权威、最高规格、最大规模的专业盛会——"2009国际生物经济大会"筹备工作现已基本就绪,将于6月26日至28日在津召开。届时,全球生物技术、生物医药领域的近千项最新成果会悉数亮相,集中展示生物科技将如何更好地服务于民。

据介绍,生物产业已成为继信息产业之后当今世界发展势头最为强劲的新兴主导产业,该产业全球销售额几乎每5年翻一番,增长速度是世界经济平均增长率的近10倍。即便在世界金融危机下,增长态势依然不减。

生物医药产业作为本市经济发展的支柱产业之一,也是近年来发展最快的高新技术产业之一。目前,全市从事生物医药研发生产的企业超过500家,拥有制药企业157家,总产值突破200亿元。加快生物技术创新,发展生物经济,已成为提升本市产业层次的重要手段和有效途径,也是滨海新区建设高水平的现代制造业和研发转化基地的重要内容。

而随着持续加大生物技术研发投入和高素质人才的聚集,世界上首个干细胞药物"间充质干细胞注射液"、全球首次发现的人血液血管细胞生成素(HAPO)、世界第二例体细胞克隆波尔山羊等一批高新成果,相继在本市诞生,在推动经济发展和服务群众生活等方面均产生了积极作用。

让汽车从"喝油"改"吃草"

随着全球能源短缺加剧,石油对国民经济的影响与日俱增。什么时候我们才能摆脱对于石油的依赖?生物燃料何时才能加到咱的油箱呢?这些问题,您可能会在"2009国际生物经济大会"能源生物技术分论坛上找到答案。

据市科委专家介绍,生物燃料是指通过生物资源生产的燃料乙醇和生物柴油,它们可替代由石油制取的汽油和柴油。与传统燃料相比,生物燃料的原料主要是粮食作物以及富含糖类和淀粉的植物,比如玉米、大豆、甜菜、稻草等。这些都是有机物或有机物新陈代谢的产物,因此属于可再生资源,且不容易造成环境污染,可减轻二氧化碳排放。如今,生物燃料的原料已经由早期的甘蔗、玉米等粮食作物,转换为如今的秸秆、麦梗、稻草等人类无法食用的农业废弃物,有效地避免了"与人争粮"的弊端。

目前,我国的生物燃料尚处于起步阶段。非粮生物能源,如红薯、木薯、甜高粱、纤维素乙醇是我国今后发展的重点。作为国家发展战略的一部分,本市的生物燃料项目也在不断发展当中,天津大学石油化工技术开发中心开发的以木薯为原料生产燃料乙醇的技术已通过了技术鉴定,应用于中粮集团在广西北海建成的每年20万吨燃料乙醇项目之中,成为国内第一个以木薯为原料的燃料乙醇项目,也是我国"十一五"期间批准的第一个以"非粮"为原料生产燃料乙醇产品的示范工程。

让您科学了解转基因食品

转基因大豆、转基因玉米……转基因技术作为生物产业的一个重要门类,近年来越来越多地走进了百姓生活。吃转基因食品安全吗?目前我国转基因作物主要分布在哪些地区?这些问题,您将在"2009国际生物经济大会"农业生物技术分论坛上了解更多信息。

对于转基因食品的安全性,全世界大多数科学家持肯定态度。目前,全世界已有近50个国家和地区开展转基因作物种植实验,有16个国家的近600万农民以种植转基因作物为主。自从1996年美国允许第一例转基因食品出售以来,包括美国、加拿大等国家在内的全球几亿人都在食用转基因食品,到目前为止并未发现任何安全问题。

目前,我国种植的转基因作物主要包括棉花、甜椒、番茄等,此外我国每年还从国际市场进口大量的转基因大豆、油菜、玉米。其中大豆经过加工,被制成食用油、豆腐、豆奶等相关产品投放市场。

本市在转基因技术的研究方面也走在了全国前列。津产转基因杂交粳稻已完成了田间试验,达到国际领先水平,被国家农业部评价为一级安全水稻。国家级棉花新品种研发基地——"天津中农大转基因棉花技术工程中心"落户滨海新区,着力培育世界级的丰产、抗病、抗逆的转基因棉花良种,每年可为国家挽回数亿公斤皮棉的损失。

看世界最新克隆技术

克隆羊、克隆牛……"克隆"这个词在百姓生活中已耳熟能详。在本次"2009国际生物经济大会"上,不但将展示全球在"克隆动物"领域的新成果,还将集中介绍克隆技术在治疗癌症、脊髓损伤等顽疾方面的最新发现。

据介绍,"克隆"一词来源于希腊语的"幼苗"或"嫩枝",一直用于园艺学中,意为以无性繁殖或营养繁殖的方式培育植物。现代意义上的克隆,是指生物体通过体细胞进行的无性繁殖,以及由无性繁殖形成的基因型完全相同的后代个体组成的种群。克隆技术的医药应用主要包括两大领域,首先是器官移植,其次是治疗神经性疾病。

目前,本市体细胞克隆技术也走在世界前列。目前,本市培育的全国首例体细胞克隆波尔山羊"津英"顺利当上了"妈妈"。体细胞克隆奶牛工程也已启动,成功建立了国际领先的高产奶牛体细胞系。不久的将来,津门百姓将吃上更为鲜美的羊肉,喝上更加优质的牛奶。
 
AIDS drugs, such as bio-fuels will be an international bio-economic Conference Exhibitors
 
Source: Times Online | Time: June 20, 2009
The treatment of cancer and AIDS drugs, to the bio-fuels to replace gasoline, high-quality high-yielding genetically modified crops ... ... Today, biotechnology and life of the relationship between people more closely. The reporter learned from the municipal government was informed that the Information Office of China's most authoritative bio-economic field, the highest specifications, the largest professional event - "2009 International Conference on Biological economy" has been basically completed the preparatory work will be June 26-28 in Jin held. By then, the global biotechnology, biomedicine field of nearly all of the results of the latest show, focused on how biotechnology will better serve the people.

According to the briefing, the biological industry has become, after following the information industry development trend in today's world the most powerful new leading industries, the global industry sales almost doubling every 5 years, the growth rate is the average growth rate of the world economy of nearly 10 times. Even in the world financial crisis, the growth remains unabated.

Bio-pharmaceutical industry as the economic development of the city one of the pillar industries in recent years the fastest-growing high-tech industries. At present, the city engaged in biomedical R & D and production of more than 500 enterprises, with 157 pharmaceutical companies, product exceeded 20 billion yuan. Speed up the bio-technological innovation, the development of bio-economy, enhance the city has become an important means of industry-level and effective way of construction of Tianjin Binhai New Area is a high level of modern manufacturing and research and development into an important aspect of the base.

With the continued investment in research and development efforts in biotechnology and the aggregation of high-quality talent, the world's first stem cell drug "mesenchymal stem cells injection," who first discovered the world hemangiopoietin (HAPO), the world's second cases of goat somatic cells and a number of other high-tech克隆波尔results, have been born in the city, in promoting economic development and service life of the masses and so have a positive role.

Let the car from the "drink the oil" to "milk"

With the increased global energy shortage, the impact of oil on the national economy growing. When will we be able to shake off dependence on oil? Bio-fuels when the fuel tank can be added to this God? Of these issues, you may be in the "2009 International Conference Bio-economy" of energy sub-forum on biotechnology to find the answer.

Science and Technology Commission, according to City experts, bio-fuels is the production of biological resources through the fuel ethanol and biodiesel, which can be taken to replace the oil system of the gasoline and diesel. Compared with traditional fuels, raw materials for biofuels and food crops are mainly sugar and starch-rich plants, such as corn, soybean, beet, straw and so on. These are organic or organic products of metabolism, it is a renewable resource, and do not cause environmental pollution, reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Today, bio-fuel raw materials from the early sugar cane, corn and other food crops, now converted to the straw, wheat stalk, rice straw and other agricultural consumption of human waste can not be effective to avoid the "food fight with" the defects.

At present, China's bio-fuels is still in its infancy. Non-food bio-energy, such as sweet potato, cassava, sweet sorghum, cellulosic ethanol is the focus of China's future development. National development strategies as part of the bio-fuel projects the city has been the development, the Tianjin University of petrochemical technology development center for the development of cassava as raw materials to produce fuel ethanol technology has passed the technical appraisal, used in the food group Beihai built 200,000 tons per year of fuel ethanol projects, became the first of a cassava-based fuel ethanol projects as well as China's "Eleventh Five-Year" period with the approval of the first "non-food" as raw materials to produce fuel ethanol product demonstration project.

Scientific understanding allows you to genetically modified foods

Genetically modified soybeans, genetically modified genetically modified maize ... ... technology as an important bio-industry categories, in recent years more and more people into a life. Eat genetically modified foods safe? Transgenic crops in China are mainly distributed in what areas? Of these issues, you will be in the "2009 International Conference Bio-economy" of agricultural biotechnology sub-forum for more information.

Genetically modified foods for safety, the majority of scientists around the world hold a positive attitude. At present, the world's nearly 50 countries and territories experimental planting of genetically modified crops, there are 16 countries with nearly 600 million farmers planting transgenic crops mainly. Since 1996, the first case of the United States to allow the sale of genetically modified foods since, including the United States, Canada and other countries of the world, including hundreds of millions of people have been eating genetically modified foods, has so far not found any safety problems.

At present, the cultivation of transgenic crops include cotton, sweet pepper, tomato, etc., in addition to China's annual imports from the international market is also a large number of genetically modified soybean, canola, corn. After one of soybean processing, was made from cooking oil, tofu, soy milk and other related products on the market.

City in the study of transgenic technology is also at the forefront of the nation. Jin-japonica hybrid rice production of genetically modified field trials have been completed, reaching the international advanced level, the Ministry of Agriculture for a safety evaluation of rice. State-level R & D base for new varieties of cotton - "Tianjin Nongda transgenic cotton in Technology and Engineering Center," settled in Tianjin Binhai New Area, foster world-class high-yield, disease resistance, stress resistance of transgenic cotton varieties, the country will be able to save hundreds of millions of kilograms of lint loss.

Cloning of the world to see the latest technology

Cloned sheep, cloning cattle ... ... "clone" of the word in ordinary life are all too familiar with. During the "2009 International Conference Bio-economy" and will show the world not only in the "animal cloning" of the new achievements in the field, will focus on cloning technology in the treatment of cancer, chronic spinal cord injury, such as the latest discovery.

According to the briefing, "cloned" from the Greek word "young" or "tender", has been used in horticulture, which means to asexual reproduction or vegetative propagation methods of breeding plants. Cloning in the modern sense refers to organisms carried out through somatic cell cloning, as well as vegetative propagation by the formation of future generations of the same genotype of the population of individuals. Medical application of cloning technology, including the two main areas, first of all organ transplants, followed by the treatment of neurological diseases.

At present, the city's somatic cell cloning technology in the world. At present, the city nurtured the country's first goat somatic cell克隆波尔"Jinying" smooth as a "mother." Somatic cell cloned cows projects have been launched successfully established the world's leading high-yielding dairy cow somatic cell line. The near future, Tianjin people will eat more lamb meat, drink more milk quality.