Trong chiến lược phát triển của mình, các viện y sinh học ở Việt Nam rất cần quan tâm làm chủ các công nghệ mới như cloning trị liệu, cloning sinh sản, tái lập trình (reprogramming), bioprinting, gene therapy, cellular imaging, kỹ nghệ mô (tissue engineering)... Sự phát triển các công nghệ hiện đại này sẽ làm chỗ dựa cho những nghiên cứu ứng dụng.

“The concept of fixing a broken gene is now entrenched in medicine,” says Theodore Friedmann, MD, director of the University of California–San Diego Program in Gene Therapy. “[It’s] a real field, with many ups and downs behind it and surely more ahead. Its technology is evolving, slowly but certainly positively.”

When I sequenced the first complete human genome—my own—in 2007, I learned I carried one of the genes associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Like many, I began to worry that the memory changes associated with normal aging were a sign that I was seeing the early stages of the disease. Due to these concerns, I had brain MRI scans and PET MRI to look for amyloid in my brain. It was a great relief to learn that my MRI showed no sign of Alzheimer’s disease and the PET MRI was completely negative. (more…)