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It is a pleasure for me to be here today and to have this possibility to address some of the students and faculty of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León. I want to take advantage of this opportunity to tell you a few things about Basic Biomedical Research and discuss a couple of very serious problems that will confront all of us in the years to come and that will not be solved without the help and contribution of people like you, that is, people with your background and formation. I believe it is the perfect time to bring up these matters because the advances that have occurred in the biomedical sciences these last 10 or 20 years are absolutely without precedent. If the first half of the century that just ended belonged to nuclear physics, with Einstein’s relativity, Max Planck’s quantum theory, Werner Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty or Ed Hubbel’s red shift that gave us a measure of our universe, atomic energy and what not, there is no question that the second half belonged to biology. It gave us incredibly sophisticated new technologies, such as genetic engineering, including gene cloning, manipulation and expression, without which we would know essentially nothing about our genetic make-up, hereditary diseases such as muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis or diabetes, nothing about viral diseases such as AIDS or cancer. And with the pervasive presence of the computer that allow us to analyze and display data, store them and retrieve them at the touch of a button, today’s investigator has at his disposal an incredible array of methodologies undreamed of just a few years ago.

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Vol. 9 Núm.37. Octubre-Diciembre 2007 Pags. 231-236 Med Univer 2007; 9(37)