An interview with Feng Shao and Weihong Tan: chemistry intertwines with biology and medicine

• 来源期刊: 国家科学评论（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（6）
• 页码范围: 1163-1168
• 页数: 6页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwz165

摘要

CHEMISTRY PROVIDE CONCEPTS AND METHODSFOR BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE NSR:You both majored in chemistry as undergraduates,and now perform research works related to biology and medicine.What is the importance of chemistry to biomedical science?Shao:On one hand,chemistry brought the concept of‘mechanism’ into life science.Today,life science and chemistry both aim to understand the mechanisms of biological processes or chemical reactions at the molecular level.Bio-molecules such as nucleic acids,proteins and lipids are all chemicals,so if we want to understand the mechanisms of biological processes,we have to work at the chemical and molecular levels.