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Article: Bio-technology Key for Modernizing Chinese Medicine
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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Considering the dilemma facing traditional Chinese medicine,
experts proposed recently that the only way to modernize Chinese
medicine is to combine it with biotechnology.
Traditional Chinese medicine, dating back thousands of years, is
faced with a shortage of resources and storage problems which have
hindered this honored industry from prospering.
The rapid progress in gene research, gene transfer therapy and
clone technology in recent years could exempt Chinese medicine from
such worries, experts said.
The application of biotechnology could ...