The Rise of Asia
24/11/10 18:39 Filed in: GenomeWeb Daily Scan
Submitted by S. Pelech - Kinexus on Wed, 11/24/2010 - 18:39.
I always figured that Japan was in Asia so what's the fuss about rising research in Asia. China has actually been technologically advanced for thousands of years, but its cultural revolution in the 1960's did set the country back at least a generation. This probably contributed to the domination of research by North America, Europe and Japan in the latter third of the 20th century. However, much of this research was actually still performed by Asian researchers living abroad in these locations.
In terms of the US's share in world research publications slipping from 31% to 28% from 2002 to 2007, is this drop even statistically significant? It is actually nice to see places like China and India contribute more to the growth of biomedical research, because ultimately we will all benefit in terms of improved diagnostics and therapeutics as well as new knowledge.
Although Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation has provided its proteomics services to over 1300 laboratories in 33 countries in the last 11 years, we still have had almost no business from researchers based in China or India. This is despite many clients in Japan, Singapore and Korea. If this is any gauge of how advance the research is progressing in the proteomics area in China and India, then they appear to have a lot of catching up yet to do.
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I always figured that Japan was in Asia so what's the fuss about rising research in Asia. China has actually been technologically advanced for thousands of years, but its cultural revolution in the 1960's did set the country back at least a generation. This probably contributed to the domination of research by North America, Europe and Japan in the latter third of the 20th century. However, much of this research was actually still performed by Asian researchers living abroad in these locations.
In terms of the US's share in world research publications slipping from 31% to 28% from 2002 to 2007, is this drop even statistically significant? It is actually nice to see places like China and India contribute more to the growth of biomedical research, because ultimately we will all benefit in terms of improved diagnostics and therapeutics as well as new knowledge.
Although Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation has provided its proteomics services to over 1300 laboratories in 33 countries in the last 11 years, we still have had almost no business from researchers based in China or India. This is despite many clients in Japan, Singapore and Korea. If this is any gauge of how advance the research is progressing in the proteomics area in China and India, then they appear to have a lot of catching up yet to do.
Link to the original blog post.