Where Do Modern Chinese Come From: Mountain Patrol Report 3 Author: Wang Liming Hunan Science and Technology Press

"Patrol Report" is a grand scientific writing project of Professor Wang Liming. He plans to spend 30 years continuously observing and analyzing the latest developments and major events in life sciences around the world, and compiling them into books by year. In 2020 and 2021, "Gene-Edited Babies: History and Clowns" and "How We Understand a New Disease" have been published. "Where Do Modern Chinese Come From" is the third book in this series.

This book is divided into two parts. In the first part, the author analyzes two important issues: where do modern Chinese people come from and the amazing breakthrough made by AlphaFold2 in the protein structure prediction competition. In the second part, Professor Wang Liming analyzes 25 life science studies, including new progress in brain-computer interfaces, human clinical trials of the anti-aging drug NMN, new drugs for obesity, the neurobiological basis of acupuncture anti-inflammatory, stem cell therapy for type 1 diabetes, etc.

Professor Wang Liming uses vivid language that is easy for people to accept and a storytelling format to help readers overcome knowledge barriers and get a glimpse of the infinite scenery in the frontier field of life sciences. He not only breaks down the latest important scientific discoveries or scientific events for readers to listen to, but more importantly, he examines and interprets them from a humanistic perspective that combines history and the future, which can improve the public's ability to analyze various problems with a scientific attitude and perspective.

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