自从2000年首次对人类基因组测序后,DNA科学呈现飞跃式发展。曾经需要花费数年时间、数十亿美元的工作,如今用1000美元不到一周就能搞定。美国正在从逾100万名志愿者收集基因数据,以便自动化实验室系统可以研究个人基因如何相互作用。
“The first problem is having access to data?.?.?.?You need a lot of data,” says Eleonore Pauwels at the Wilson Center in Washington.
“第一个问题是数据……你需要很多数据,”位于华盛顿的威尔逊中心(Wilson Center)的埃莱奥诺雷?保韦尔斯(Eleonore Pauwels)表示。
Beijing’s ambitions in this area have led some Chinese companies to go on the acquisition trail — especially in the US. In January, for example, iCarbonX of Shenzhen, which aims to create personalised health treatments by combining AI with large pools of genetic data, invested more than $100m in PatientsLikeMe. The US company says it is the world’s largest personalised health network with more than 500,000 individuals sharing their medical details. PatientsLikeMe, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says that its data are anonymised and retained on US-based servers.
北京方面在该领域的野心使得一些中国企业走上收购之路——特别是在美国。例如,1月深圳的碳云智能(iCarbonX,旨在把人工智能和大型基因数据库结合起来以打造个性化健康治疗方案)向PatientsLikeMe投资逾1亿美元。这家美国公司自称全球最大的个性化健康网,逾50万人在此分享了医疗细节。位于马萨诸塞州坎布里奇的PatientsLikeMe表示,其数据是匿名的,存放在美国境内的服务器。
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