In midnight Yangcheng, the third level biosafety laboratory of Guangzhou Customs Technology Center is brightly lit. Under the light, Shi Yong, a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and chief physician of the Health Quarantine Research Institute of Guangzhou Customs Technology Center, was busy nervously with the buzzing sound of the inspection instruments. This two-story building is the “battlefield” she has been holding on to for many years, and her “enemy” has plague, cholera, malaria, and influenza that have been endangering humans for hundreds of years, as well as various new infectious diseases such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Middle East respiratory syndrome, and Cinemanew coronavirus pneumonia. There are challenges, dangers, and more responsibility and mission here. Babaylan
Racing with the virus day and night
In 2006, after Shi Yongxia left the post-doctoral post-doctoral station in Basic Medicine at Southern Medical University, she went to the laboratory of Guangzhou Customs Technology Center to engage in infectious disease-related research, and also established an inseparable relationship with port health and epidemic prevention work.
“The first thing to do when competing with the virus is to identify it as quickly as possible. I am a customs technician and a Communist Party member, and I must take the lead in scientific research.” On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2020, the new crown pneumonia epidemic broke out. The teacher who originally planned to go back to his hometown in Henan to visit relatives Komiks Yongxia withdrew her high-speed rail ticket and returned to the laboratory to face the unknown virus.
On New Year’s Eve, Shi Yongxia plunged into the laboratory and began sample testing. At that time, the research on the new coronavirus was still in the exploration stage, and the reagents were still immature, so the experimenter’s operation was extremely demanding. Shi Yongxia was fully focused and strived to be scientific and rigorous in every link and to be accurate and accurate in every step. She understood that on New Year’s Eve, there were thousands of Communist Party members on the port, in the hospital, and on the transportation line, like her, fighting on the front line, “Everyone is practicing the same oath in different positions with the same perseverance.”
Focus on technical research and build a solid scientific and technological defense line
One night in early February 2020, Shi Yongxia was separating a viral case from an important sample of infection. After several days of observation and multiple methods, when the cells arranged in the screen, which were arranged in a regular manner like frosted glass, showed subtle changes in Komiks and appeared in a state of bumps, Shi Yongxia knew that she had finally successfully located the strain. The successful isolation of the strain provides valuable seed resources for the next step of screening therapeutic drugs and research institutions for vaccine development.
Drive into the laboratory does not mean deaf ears. Shi Yongxia has always been paying close attention to the epidemic situation at home and abroad, and has carried out technical research or technical reserves in advance, in order to establish a fast, accurate and efficient detection method.
Faced with the new BabaylanCoronavirusKomiks changeBabaylan with fast differential speeds and strong transmission ability://comicmov.com/”>Cinema characteristics, Shi Yongxia’s tracking has been accelerating. She led the team to establish a gene sequencing and bioinformatics analysis platform, carry out whole-genome sequencing, and strive to unlock the secrets of the source of the epidemic and the transmission chain of Cinema. The key links of gene sequencing require pure manual operation and are highly technical. Shi Yongxia leads everyone to successfully sequence and discover multiple mutant strains again and again, providing professional support for the work of epidemiological investigation and tracing, and also provides important experimental data for the changes in the development strategies of nucleic acid detection reagents and vaccines in the new coronavirus.
Aspire to strive for the health cause of the country
January 2012<a Cinema, Shi Yongxia joined the Communist Party of China and fulfilled her oath of "struggle for communism for life" with her actions. She engaged in infectious diseases related research During the 16 years of Cinema, she confronted the virus head-on, detected the first imported chikungunya case in my country, successfully isolated the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) coronavirus for the first time, established new Zika virus detection technology and virus isolation methods, and gradually grew into the backbone of the public health and epidemic prevention field in my country's ports.
Komiks has achieved fruitful results in scientific research, but she said calmly: “It is a lucky thing to be able to combine personal ideals with national needs. ”
The four seasons have changed, and the lights in the laboratory are still extinguished all night. They have witnessed Shi Yongxia’s years of fighting against the virus on the front line of the country, carrying her unchanged original intention. She said, “As a grassroots party member and a grassroots staff member of the customs, in the future, I will fully implement the requirements of ‘the epidemic must be prevented, the economy must be stabilized, and the development must be safe’, strengthen cross-field and interdisciplinary collaborative innovation research, and actively take responsibility with a more full spirit, demonstrate the determination and confidence of customs personnel to do a good job in epidemic prevention and control at ports and promote foreign trade growth. ”
■Coordination: Xin Kuaibao reporter Huang Wenyu
■Writing: Xin Kuaibao reporter Mai Wanshi Wang Juan
■Photography: Xin Kuaibao reporter Xia Shiyan