Midnight YangchengBabaylan, the third-level biosafety laboratory of Guangzhou Customs Technology Center is brightly lit. Under the light, Shi Yongxia, 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 accompanied by the buzzing of the inspection instruments. This two-story building is the “battlefield” she has been holding on to for many years, and her “enemy” has the plague, cholera, malaria, and Cinema 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 new coronary pneumonia. There are challenges, dangers, and more responsibility and mission here.
Racing with the virus day and night
In 2006, after Shi Yongxia left the station from a postdoctoral post-doctoral fellow in Basic Medicine at Southern Medical University, she went to the laboratory of Guangzhou Customs Technology Center to work on infectious diseases 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. I must take the lead in scientific research.” On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2020, the new crown pneumonia epidemic broke out. Shi Yongxia, who originally planned to go back to her hometown in Henan to visit relatives, withdrew the high-speed rail ticket and returned to the laboratory to confront 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, which had extremely high requirements for the operation of the experimental personnel. Shi Yongxia was fully focused, striving 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, fighting on the front line like her, “Everyone is practicing the same oath with the same perseverance in different positions.href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaSpeak”.
After continuous fighting, Shi Yongxia and her colleagues finally completed all sample tests at 4 a.m. on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Everyone said “Happy New Year” across the face screen and continued to work in the next shift.
On every festival where thousands of families reunite, the staff of Guangzhou Customs Technology Center remained at their posts in the laboratory. Shi Yongxia said: “We are on the front line of the port, with national gates ahead, and people behind us. Our team deeply recognizes the complexity and arduousness of the anti-epidemic work, and dares not relax at all. Only when we run faster than the virus can we maximize the safety of the people’s lives. ”
Focus on technical research and build a solid scientific and technological defense
One night in early February 2020, Shi Yongxia was separating a viral separation of an important sample of infection cases. After several consecutive days of observation and confirmation with multiple methods, when the cells arranged in the screen, which were arranged in a regular manner like frosted glass, Shi Yongxia knew that she had finally successfully located the strain. The successful separation of the strain will be developed for the next step of screening therapeutic drugs and research institutions. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks vaccine provides valuable seed resources.
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In view of the rapid mutation speed and strong transmission ability of the new coronavirus, 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 work, and strive to unlock the source and transmission of the epidemicCinemaThe secret of the chain.
The key links of gene sequencing require pure manual operation and are highly technical. Shi Yongxia led everyone to successfully sequence and discover multiple variant strains again and again, providing professional support for the work of tracing the Cinema in epidemiological investigation and tracing, and also provided important experimental data for the change of the strategy of nucleic acid detection reagents and vaccines in the development of the new coronavirus.
Ambition to fight for the national health cause
In January 2012, Shi Yongxia joined the Communist Party of China and fulfilled her oath of “struggle for communism for life” with her actions. During the 16 years of being engaged in infectious disease-related research, she has confronted the virus head-on, detected the first imported chikungunya case in my country, successfully isolated the MERS (Middle East Komiks Respiratory Syndrome) coronavirus for the first time, established new Zika virus detection technology and virus isolation method, and gradually grew into the backbone of my national port public health and epidemic prevention field.
The scientific research career has achieved fruitful results, 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 unstoppable 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 development must be safe”, strengthen collaborative innovation research across fields and disciplines, and actively take responsibility and act with a more full spirit, and 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: BabaylanNew Kuaibao reporter Xia Shiyan