1985年,英国纽卡斯尔大学的埃默森教授通过基因分离,发现了一种引发禽类对一种禽类疾病Fowlpest产生免疫反应的基因。这种基因自发现后,一直受到英国技术集团的专利保护,最近转让给了一家日本公司——日本制药,日本制药计划生产新一代的治疗禽类疾病的疫苗。 In 1985, Professor Emerson of Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, through gene isolation, discovered a gene that elicited an immune response to Fowlpest, a bird disease. Since its discovery, the gene has been patented by the British Technology Group and was recently transferred to a Japanese company, Nippon Pharmaceuticals, which plans to produce a new generation of vaccines for the treatment of poultry diseases.