Microbial Threat--The Copenhagen Recommendations initiative of the EU

The Microbial Threat was the name of an invitational EU conference held in Copenhagen in 1998, which for the first time made antibiotic resistance an official EU issue. The initiative resulted in a set of conclusions, which together with a summary of the conference was published as The Copenhagen Recommendations. This was soon followed by an EU Council Recommendation in 2001 exhorting the member states to follow and enact the recommendations from the Copenhagen meeting. Funding from EU research funds was later provided for projects monitoring resistance as well as antibiotic use, both of which have been lacking in most EU countries until now. The initiative is a good example of a major health issue being lifted by a concerted and official EU action.     

以创新精神做大做强宁夏奶产业

为实现自治区第九次党代会提出的“突出发展畜牧业，加强优质特色农产品基地建设，把乳品、牛羊肉、枸杞、葡萄、马铃薯、中药材等产业做大做强，实现农业增效、农民增收”的目标，自治区党委、政府从今年起一个产业一个产业地组织调研，一个产业一个产业地制定政策；一个规划一个规划地狠抓落实，一个项目一个项目地规范管理，力争２００５年以前做大做强农牧业主导产业。最近自治区人民政府召开了全区奶产业工作会议，对宁夏奶产业的发展进行了全面认真的分析，找到了宁夏奶产业与发达省区的差距和存在的突出问题，提出了宁夏奶产业发展的…     

试论草坪主动除草

根据1999－202年在50多个高尔夫球场草坪防除杂草的实践，基于土壤中杂草种子库、杂草与草坪竞争的生态学原理，提出了草坪主动除草的理论。包含控杂草于危害前，树草坪竞争优势，治理杂草种子库，预防潜在的杂草问题。阐述了如何取得杂草防除、保持杂草防除的主动权以及如何制定主动防除草坪杂草的方案。     

生物素主动吸收与转运的研究进展

生物素是一种水溶性维生素,在动物体内具有重要的生理功能。动物体存在着生物素主动吸收机制,参与生物素主动吸收与转运的载体为SMVT(sodiumdependentmultivitamintransporter)。对SMVT的研究已经深入到分子水平,文章就生物素以SMVT为载体时的主动吸收与转运的相关研究进行了总结,综述了在这一领域的研究进展。     

The porcine genome initiative: Implications for digestive physiology

Completion of the pig genome sequencing will celebrate the Chinese Year of the Pig in 2007. The International Swine Genome Sequencing Consortium has established an integrated approach to create genome sequences, chromosomal contigs, whole-genome libraries, full-length cDNA libraries and to generate single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). The project is being conducted in collaboration with The Wellcome Trust Sange Institute. Project information as well as monitoring progress of the project can be viewed at http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/S_scrofa/. During the next year, numerous physical maps and functional genomics analyses will be published. These advances will have significant implications for studying digestive physiology. Examples illustrating as to how effective genomic approaches for addressing critical questions in digestive physiology are presented. This includes approaches showing how genomics can be used to monitor the process of GI colonization and the effects of various nutrients are explored. The development of comparative genome maps also permits the incorporation of experimental studies in other species (mice and humans) to identify new hypotheses for testing in the pig. This comparative genomics approach further supports the use of the pig in biomedical research studies for human clinical studies. As this new genomic information becomes available, the necessity to create interactive databases, that provide portals for using genomic information to create gene based hypotheses will become rate limiting. Thus, the digestive physiology community contributions towards building web-based interfaces are essential.