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获得今年诺贝尔生理或医学奖的三位生物学家有一个共同点:他们用线虫研究发育生物学和神经生物学。因为他们及其同事的工作使线虫成为现代生物学主要动物模式之一,从20世纪60年代中期开始摸索线虫模式,到90年代推广,目前世界上有几千位科学家用线虫做研究,美国中等以上大学普遍有一到数个线虫实验室,欧洲和日本、中国台湾等地也有。一个突出现象就是中国大陆的缺席。
The three biologists who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine have one thing in common: they use nematodes to study developmental biology and neurobiology. Because of their work and their colleagues, nematodes have become one of the major animal models of modern biology. From the mid-1960s, the family of nematodes was explored and popularized in the 1990s. Thousands of scientists in the world now use nematodes to do research. The above universities generally have one to several nematode laboratories, Europe and Japan, China Taiwan also have. A prominent phenomenon is the absence of mainland China.