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Gene health: technology, market and regulation are indispensable

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With the continuous progress and achievement transformation in the field of genomic science at home and abroad, a new industry -- gene health industry has been gradually formed.
 
People are in pursuit of how to be healthy without or less sick?
This has been a question that scientists have been studying for years.
Demand drives industrial development. Since the end of 1990s, China's genetic health industry has developed from technology to industrial application in more than 10 years, gradually forming an industrial pattern with a certain scale and relative division of labor.
 
He xiaoying, vice chairman and executive secretary of the China institute of high-tech industrialization, said that genetic science has become one of the most cutting-edge science in the world and is of great significance to the development of the health industry.
As a result, many enterprises have realized the importance of the research and development of genetic science, the application of the results, industrialization to promote the ranks.
 
It is understood that the gene health industry is the background of future genome research, which quickly converts the research results of human genome into the overall application of preventive medicine and clinical medicine, and serves the human health as an emerging health industry, which is the leading industry of biological economy.
When the human genome project was launched, there were fewer than 100 diseases that could be predicted by genetic testing. So far there are nearly 4,000.
In addition, since last year, a number of hospitals in the United States have included full vaccination testing in clinical practice, which means that genetic testing technology will soon enter our lives, and the era of genetic medicine has arrived.
 
Xi 'an times gene health technology co., LTD. President meng tao pointed out that China's gene health industry after more than 10 years of development, the industry has a number of large and small 10 enterprises, and gradually formed a certain scale and relative division of industry pattern.
In meng's opinion, in the next 10 years, there will be a great demand for genetic testing technologies such as gene analysis of personalized medicine, diagnosis and screening of tumors, and diagnosis and screening of genetic diseases of birth defects, and the genetic health industry is expected to see explosive development.
 
"The regulatory system of the industrial age does not match the technological development of the information age, and many provisions are 'embedded' and scattered in relevant policies and regulations."
According to meng tao, "technological innovation needs industrial innovation, and industrial innovation calls for policy innovation."
Only when the policy formulation is systematic and scientific, the laws and regulations are sound and feasible, and the guidance direction is specific and clear, can the market barriers of the gene health industry be eliminated, and the guiding, encouraging and regulating role of policies and regulations be given full play, so as to provide strong support and guarantee for the industrial development and market cultivation.
 
In addition, product standards and technical standards are also important factors for the large-scale development of various industrial directions of genetic health, and also the main cause of social controversy. Evidence-based research on big data is needed. To promote this work, it is not only the persistence and efforts of enterprises, but also the support of industry associations and governments.
Meng Tao said, product and technology standard is the basis of perfecting the laws and regulations system, should be vigorously advocated and relevant industry associations and learn to support genetic health industry, promote the establishment of industry technology and product standards, give full play to the role and self-discipline, market order establishment conforms to the market rules of emerging industry development, the benign development of the genetic health market.
 
Meng said that in the face of China's severe birth defects and the rapid development of chronic diseases, prevention and control are urgently needed, and gene-related technologies and products will become an important part of mainstream medicine in the 21st century, which is the trend of scientific development and the inevitable progress of human civilization.
In the development of any industry, technology forerunner, market promotion, government guidance and industry standard are indispensable. As the main body of the market, enterprises play an important role in the development of gene health industry.