Titre:	Current millennium biotechniques for biomedical research on parasites and host-parasite interactions
Auteur(s):	Teixeira, Antonio Raimundo Lima Cruz Barbosa, Augusto Mello Simões Faudry, Eric Lozzi, Silene de Paulino Argañaraz, Enrique Roberto D'Souza-Ault, Marian Santana, Jaime Martins de
Assunto::	Genômica Transcriptoma Proteômica Chagas, Doença de Leishmaniose Biotecnologia
Date de publication:	2000
Référence bibliographique:	TEIXEIRA, Antonio Raimundo Lima Cruz et al. Current millennium biotechniques for biomedical research on parasites and host-parasite interactions. Memórias do instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de janeiro, v. 95, supl.1, p. 123-131, 2000. Disponível em: <http://www.scielo.br/pdf/mioc/v95s1/v95s1a21.pdf>. Acesso em: 6 jan. 2011. doi: 10.1590/S0074-02762000000700021.
Abstract:	The development of biotechnology in the last three decades has generated the feeling that the newest scientific achievements will deliver high standard quality of life through abundance of food and means for successfully combating diseases. Where the new biotechnologies give access to genetic information, there is a common belief that physiological and pathological processes result from subtle modifications of gene expression. Trustfully, modern genetics has produced genetic maps, physical maps and complete nucleotide sequences from 141 viruses, 51 organelles, two eubacteria, one archeon and one eukaryote (Saccharomices cerevisiae). In addition, during the Centennial Commemoration of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute the nearly complete human genome map was proudly announced, whereas the latest Brazilian key stone contribution to science was the publication of the Shillela fastidiosa genomic sequence highlythed on a Nature cover issue. There exists a belief among the populace that further scientific accomplishments will rapidly lead to new drugs and methodological approaches to cure genetic diseases and other incurable ailments. Yet, much evidence has been accumulated, showing that a large information gap exists between the knowledge of genome sequence and our knowledge of genome function. Now that many genome maps are available, people wish to know what are we going to do with them. Certainly, all these scientific accomplishments will shed light on many more secrets of life. Nevertheless, parsimony in the weekly announcements of promising scientific achievements is necessary. We also need many more creative experimental biologists to discover new, as yet un-envisaged biotechnological approaches, and the basic resource needed for carrying out mile stone research necessary for leading us to that "promised land"often proclaimed by the mass media.
DOI:	https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0074-02762000000700021
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