Dipartimento Ambiente e Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
Dipartimento di Ricerca, Registro Tumori, Fondazione IRCCS, Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy.
Ann Ist Super Sanita. 2022 Apr-Jun;58(2):85-92. doi: 10.4415/ANN_22_02_03.
The actual "pandemic" times, beside their burden of sorrow in terms of both victims, destruction of societal links and economic consequences, are an unprecedented occasion to give a closer look to the status of biomedical research. Beside the undoubted technological advances, the general impression is alarming: the fragmentation of science culture prevents any wise synthesis of the many aspects involved in a global phenomenon as SARS-CoV-2 epidemics. Here we try to acquire a "detached" view to some evolutionary and physiological aspects of the human-virus interaction highlighting the need to revitalize science by a strong departure from ultra-specialization toward a real integration of different fields of investigation.
在实际的“大流行”时期，除了受害者、社会联系破坏和经济后果方面的悲伤负担外，这也是一个前所未有的机会，可以更仔细地审视生物医学研究的现状。除了毫无疑问的技术进步外，总的印象是令人震惊的：科学文化的碎片化阻止了对 SARS-CoV-2 流行等全球现象所涉及的许多方面进行明智的综合。在这里，我们试图从进化和生理学的角度来观察人类与病毒的相互作用，强调需要通过从超专业化向真正的不同研究领域的整合来振兴科学。
