Editorial
Open Access
New Access Openings in Genetic Science
Jean-François Picimbon
Biotechnology Research Centre, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 202 Industry North Road, Jinan 250100, China
*Corresponding author: Jean-François Picimbon, Functional Genomics and Proteomics of Chemical Ecology, Microbiology, Plant Transgenesis and
Insect Control, Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, P.R. China; Tel. +86-(531)-83175350; Fax: +86-(531)-
83178156; E-mail: jfpicimbon@gmail.com
Received: 29 June, 2014; Accepted: 05 July, 2014, Published: 09 July, 2014
Citation: Picimbon JF (2014) New Access Openings in Genetic Science. SOJ Genet Sci 1(1):1-1. DOI: 10.15226/2377-4274/1/1/00104
SOJ Genetic Science (SOJGS) is a new online OPEN-ACCESS
journal opened in the frame of Symbiosis (Bloomington, Illinois,
USA) to help gather the formidable knowledge provided for studies
on genome, gene, desoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), ribonucleic acid
(RNA), proteins and DNA/RNA/protein complexes characterizing
nowadays genetic science. Data have largely accumulated over
the last few years thanks not only to the development of gene
cloning, hybridization and sequencing techniques but also to the
panel of biotechnological methods devoted to DNA/RNA/protein
structure analysis. Modern technologies and new applications are
expected to bring even further the scientific development in fast
growing research fields such as gene knock out, RNA interference
and organismal trans-genesis.
Geneticist biologists can feel, we are going perhaps too fast
for playing with Nature quickly soon after deciphering specific
bacterial, plant or mammalian genomes. However, we can also
somewhat feel that testing a scientific fantasy such as a genetic
recombination on health, animal and human health, plant safety
and/or microbe productivity is rather unavoidable for our
own prosperity. RNA building blocks came from space. Now
everything in the cell is DNA and RNA. What will be the future
of these cells so heavily, entirely and intrinsically based on DNA
and RNA? How will DNA and RNA develop in all the various cells
and tissues of all various genera of living organisms? How do
genomic DNA and the RNA it produces interact with each other to
provide cells and tissues with proper function? How do genome
and RNA evolve together to guarantee survival for all organisms?
How is the whole genetic machinery controlled in vivo? What is
the cell brain behind? A theory of life based on RNA mutations
and protein multiplicity has been proposed (1), emphasizing the
need for understanding gene-RNA-protein interaction to drive
the central dogma of tomorrow research.
We open a new journal in the field of gene, genome, genetics,
DNA, RNA, biology, entomology, microbiology, plant sciences,
neurobiology, medicine and translational medicine for profound
impact on health and health care as well as on environment and environment care, food safety and organismal engineering. Using
genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics is expected to provide
outstanding results and set of data to allow us to tackle most
ambitious evolutionary, both fundamental and applied scientific
concepts in the area of genetic sciences. Following Mendel’s
basic principles as well as Watson and Crick and the discovery
of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (DNA) (2-4), genetic DNA or RNA
language is not a sound wave made of four vocals (A-T-G-C or
A-U-G-C) but a complex structural machinery finely orchestrated
by molecular mechanisms that remain to be found, described and
properly interpreted in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
We hope to open the gate of most original studies in this field
of endeavor, genetic science, prelude to a better understanding of
the functioning of all types of cells and genomes in various living
organisms. We have no doubt that the cumulated literature will
serve fundamental concepts from evolution to gene biotechnology
and bring new issues not only in applied and basic, but also in
fundamental, inherited and learned genetics life science.
“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed,
which could have been formed by numerous, successive, slight
modifications, my theory would absolutely break down” C.R.
Darwin (1859) (5).
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- Mendel, JG. Versuche über Pflanzenhybriden Verhandlungen des naturforschenden Vereines in Brünn, Bd. IV für das Jahr, 1865; Abhandlungen: 3-47.
- Windle Bertram CA. Mendel and His Theory of Heredity. A Century of Scientific Thought and Other Essays. Burns & Oates, 1915.
- Watson JD, Crick FH. Molecular structure of nucleic acids; a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid. Nature1953;171(4356):737-738.
- Darwin CR On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. Journal of Researches during H.M.S. Beagle’s Voyage Round the World. London: John Murray; 1859. p. 162.