"We believe we can reverse the time."
This is not making a movie. In June this year, Dr. Richard Klausner, one of the three giants in cell immunotherapy, founder of Juno Therapeutics and GRAIL, and head of the National Cancer Institute, solemnly spoke to the audience in a public speech in San Diego, USA, and showed the audience some undisclosed experimental data to prove that they used cell reprogramming technology in the laboratory to successfully bring sick mice back to life.
Image source: Max Loeffler & MIT Technology Review
"rejuvenation" black technology is not groundless. As the chief scientist of Altos Labs, Klausner gathered a group of top scientists, committed to "resetting" the aging-related genes in organisms from the perspective of epigenome, so as to make organisms younger, or at least at the age of biology . They call this exciting technology "Rejuvenation Programming". At the moment when precision medicine is so popular, Klausner's ambition is to make the body younger in all directions to prevent most diseases from the root. He even claimed that this is completely "the opposite of precision medicine." Recently, Altos Labs has been crazily raising US$3 billion, and its financing sources are mostly Silicon Valley giants and oil wealthy in the Gulf region. The
news caused an uproar and controversy continued. Supporters such as David Sinclair, professor of the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Biomechanism Research Laboratory of Aging in Harvard Medical School, said optimistically, "We have no reason not to live for 200 years." Opponents such as embryologist and expert on stem cell , Alfonso Martinez Arias compared the technology to medieval alchemy and said Klausner may have drunk too much.
No matter what, with the advancement of life sciences , medical technology and public health, human life span has been extending. Whether it is to improve the proportion of high-quality life in the life course or to directly extend life span, anti-aging technology has an attractive prospect and broad growth space, and is one of the hot technology tracks, which is in line with the prediction of the MIT Technology Review. In 2020, "anti-aging drugs" were selected as the "Top Ten Breakthrough Technologies" of the "MIT Technology Review". In this year's selection, readers cast a "aging clock", and is also one of the underlying principles of "rejuvenation programming" technology.
From brain-computer interface to deep learning, from synthetic biology to genome editing, such accurate and successful predictions have been common in the past twenty years. As the world's oldest and most influential emerging technology commercial media, "MIT Technology Review" (MIT Technology Review) has been founded in 1899 and has always paid attention to cutting-edge technology and its commercialization with a professional spirit. and since 2001, it has selected the "Top Ten Breakthrough Technologies" (10 Breakthrough Technologies, TR10). represents the forefront and future direction of world science and technology development. Many technologies that first emerged in the past are now well-known by the public and have profoundly changed our lives and cognition from many aspects, reshaping countless industrial fields and tracks. Historical verification is the best proof of the forward-looking nature of the "Top Ten Breakthrough Technologies", and the professionalism and authority of the selection have also been unanimously recognized by the industry., the core journal , is headed and sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, said that "the science and technology breakthroughs on the list represent the frontier and future direction of the development of science and technology in the current era." After the annual selection results were announced, famous scientists from various fields were invited to provide in-depth interpretation of the "Top Ten Breakthrough Technologies".
"Aging Clock" Image Source: MIT Technology Review
Now, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the "Top Ten Breakthrough Technologies", the world's science and technology landscape is undergoing profound changes. The track of Scientific and technological innovation is becoming increasingly subdivided, and the trend of multi-disciplinary interdisciplinary integration in the development of science and technology has been further enhanced. The deep collision and integration between different disciplines usually means new possibilities and growth points, and are often concentrated explosion points for major scientific breakthroughs, thereby promoting leap forward in multiple professional fields. At this critical node, looking back at the history of scientific and technological development and paying attention to the intersection, integration and symbiotic development of multiple disciplines is crucial for us to understand the overall industry context and control the development trend of scientific and technological development, and is also the key basis for us to make important decisions.
11 November 4, Following the successful release of the "Top Ten Breakthrough Technologies" in Hangzhou in 2021, the 20th anniversary theme summit of the "Top Ten Breakthrough Technologies" of The Top of Technology · "MIT Technology Review" "Top Ten Breakthrough Technologies" will be launched again in Yuhang . The summit is guided by the Management Committee of Hangzhou Future Science and Technology City (Haichuang Park), hosted by MIT Technology Review China, and hosted by DeepTech and Yunyue Technology. will invite academic experts, industry leaders, well-known investors and representatives of universities, institutions and enterprises from the fields of life sciences, energy and climate, artificial intelligence , information technology, new materials, smart life, etc. to gather in Hangzhou Future Science and Technology City . Based on 20 years of accumulation and summary, analyzes the development history, jointly discusses future technological development trends, and brings both professional and forward-looking analysis.
As one of the four major science and technology cities in the country, Hangzhou Future Science and Technology City has adhered to the development strategy of "talent-led, innovation-driven, and industrial-city integration" since its official establishment in 2011. It has consistently put "I am responsible for the sunshine, rain and dew, and you are responsible for thriving" in all aspects. It currently has multiple major scientific and technological innovation platforms and is a gathering place for high-tech enterprises and high-tech talents. The "Top Ten Breakthrough Technologies" of the "MIT Technology Review" was once again launched in Hangzhou Future Science and Technology City on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the selection, and will help it build a high-tech talent high-tech talent and a high-tech industrial cluster, leading the high-quality development of the economy and society.
This summit will be guided by "The Top of Technology: Emerging Technology's 'Everyone' Say" and will hold high-end dialogues with big names around the topic of "How to accelerate the industrialization and commercialization of emerging technologies", and will also have three major sectors: "Infinite possibilities of life science", "'carbon new ecology" and "New Digital Intelligence Momentum". At the same time, the new book , which has been published by MIT Technology Review in the past 20 years, will be released by more than 200 "Top Ten Breakthrough Technologies" in the past 20 years. "The Top of Technology: Global Breakthrough Technological Innovation and Future Trends (20th Anniversary Collector's Edition)" will be released at the conference.
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"The Top of Technology: Global Breakthrough Technological Innovation and Future Trends (20th Anniversary Collection Edition)", we systematically sorted out and summarized the "Top Ten Breakthrough Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Technological Techn Yu authoritative person gave in-depth interpretations and professional comments on the characteristics of technology in some fields, current industrial application status, future development trends and investment potential. On the occasion of launching this book, was fortunate to receive high evaluation and preface from academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, professors of of the School of Environment, Tsinghua University, and academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, , and , dean of the Institute of Intelligent Industry, Tsinghua University, (AIR). It can be said that the "Top of Science and Technology (20th Anniversary Collection Edition)" collection of 20 years of profound cutting-edge technological insights may be one of the best ways for people from all walks of life to understand various disciplines, understand the development of science and technology, and explore investment and business opportunities.
Twenty years of hard work, the future is close. On November 4, we came to Hangzhou Future Science and Technology City and we reached the "top of science and technology" together.
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