National Institute of Life Sciences (NILS)

Introduction

Biology is the study of life sciences, in other words it is the research of the phenomenon of life and life activity patterns on organisms.

The National Institute of Life Sciences was established in 1980. It is a highly innovative life science research institution, and has always been at the forefront of biomedical science. The National Institute of Life Sciences has become an internationally recognized research and development research institution. It covers basic research in immunology, molecular and cellular biology, neuroscience, autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular diseases, virology and so on. NILS is one of a handful of the world's leading centers on the subject of the basic structure of biomolecules and the study of natural herbal extract compound preparations. In thirty years of continuous efforts, in the multidisciplinary field of research and more than 40 successful clinical research is extremely effective for the improvement of human life and health to make a contribution.

The National Institute of Life Sciences is composed of the following entities:

    Bio-Balance Lab

    Young America

    Bio-Balance USA

UBC Medical Center

Research interests include: Neoplastic disease, cardiopulmonary diseases, senile disease, study of skin diseases, endocrine diseases: diabetes and its complications in gastrointestinal disorders, immune disease research, neural diseases, allergic diseases, infectious diseases and viral research.

NILS emphasizes building basic knowledge in the field of biomedical science, and has made outstanding contributions for medical applications and the development of new medicine. From the pursuit of fundamental scientific advances through interdisciplinary project, as well as education and training of researchers, NILS is fully prepared to meet the challenges of the next century’s technological evolution.

With world-class scientists meeting as a collective to create a world-class institute, the purpose of the National Institute of Life Sciences is to create original research, and to explore new scientific operation mechanism.

The person who is qualified to be dean of the institution must obtain the world's leading medical research standards, and there is a high academic attainments and international reputation in the field of life sciences. President for a term of five years and may be reappointed. Dr. Jeffrey Young who is the expert in the molecular biology and professor of oriental medicine was formally appointed to be the president of NILS in June 2010.

The life sciences has made great progress in the late 20^th century, especially breakthrough achievements in molecular biology, therefore, life sciences played a revolutionary change in the natural science area. In the 1980s, a prominent biologist considered molecular biology (including molecular genetics), cell biology, neurobiology and ecology as the current four basic disciplines of biological sciences, is undoubtedly correct reflection of the general trend about the modern life sciences.Genetics (mainly molecular genetics) is not currently leading the biological sciences disciplines, many years will maintain its central role in the life sciences in the future. Some scientists have predicted that the combination of molecular biology, cell biology and genetics, is bound to promote the vigorous development of developmental biology, developmental biology and thus raise the life sciences in the 21st century to prominence. This prediction has gradually become a reality. Molecular biology (including molecular genetics) has gained a mainstream position in the life sciences, as well as a great role in promoting the development of life sciences. Cells are the basic structure of life activities and functional units, cell biology as a basis for disciplinary status of biological sciences must be given attention.

Molecular biology is the study of life phenomena and laws of nature at the molecular level of discipline. Nucleic acid and protein is the basic material of life, so Nucleic Acids Research and protein structure and function in the future is still the main contents of the study of molecular biology. Protein is the main bearer of life activities, almost all life activities must rely on proteins (including enzymes) to carry out.Research on the molecular structure and function of proteins in addition to clarify and a certain sequence of the peptide chain structure formed from amino acids, the future will pay special attention to the peptide chain demolition Diecheng specific three-dimensional structure, because the biological functions of proteins and its spatial configuration very close relationship, and passed the nucleic acid is a carrier of genetic information, genetic information from the DNA ~ RNA transfer process a protein called genetic information passed the "central dogma" is the core of molecular biology (molecular genetics) research .

Famous biologist Wilson as early as the 1920s, famously proposed "all key issues must find biological cells," since there is a very deep meaning. Knowledge about the importance of the cells in the biological sciences is evident.Cells are all life activities of the basic unit of structure and function, cell biology is the study of cell structure of the basic laws of science and life activities, cells. Cellular metabolism, genetics, cell proliferation and differentiation, transmission of information and communication cells, such as cells, cell biology is the main research content.While the future of cell biology research content is comprehensive, but it may be summed up in two basic points:

(A) How important genes and gene products control cell life activities, such as growth, proliferation, differentiation and senescence, in which to relate to a whole new problem, how inside and outside the cell signal transmission;

(B)  one gene product is a protein molecule with other biological molecules into the cell how to build and assemble the structure and exercise orderly life activities of cells.

Cells are the basic unit of biological activity in a cell all the time to accept a variety of signals from outside the cell and the cell to be transmitted to all important in the regulation of cell life activities. In cell signaling, there is a G protein-coupled receptor is a cell surface receptor family maximum number of bear a large amount of cell signaling function, is the most important drug targets, about 40 percent of the world's selling drugs are for G protein-coupled receptors.

U.S. health spending in 2001, health has accounted for 14% GDP, and this proportion is accelerating upward trend. Meanwhile, with the arrival of the completion of the post-genomic era and the Human Genome Project, the life sciences have reached a new crossroads, NSHLI faced with new choices.Can you develop a strategic framework for effective biomedical research? The current medicine can reduce health and health spending in three ways and enhance its benefits: joint use of the disease means to treat a variety of interference, delay disease attacks people, reduce the dangers of the disease; 21st century medicine through early disease prevention health gives greater well-being, that is, before the disease symptoms appeared on the intervention.This requires understanding the molecular and cellular mechanisms of disease activity, studies of complex living systems, the prevalence of potential possibilities with the new technology to detect individuals. In the future,  medical advances constitute a large number of molecules needed to master a wide range of cell and tissue interaction networks and their interactions, and the need to accurately understand the link between the molecular events leading to the disease.NILS organization and implementation of a series of research projects, and to encourage scientists to come out and explore new organizational model of scientific teams from their own disciplinary boundaries in; encourage risky strategic research projects and interdisciplinary research."Reconstruction of clinical research system" will be committed to modern biomedical research, "Clinical studies from experimental platform to promote", "translational research" between basic research and clinical research between the establishment and improvement in the patients, doctors and establish new partnerships between researchers, integrating clinical research network, enhancing information and data processing, and the development of new technologies to improve the efficiency and output of the entire clinical research systems.With innovative biomedical research and progress, for the foreseeable future, a preventive, individuality, alternative medicine era molecules necessary in our common efforts to achieve it.