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Marcus Pembrey is one of a select band of scientists, a band of scientists who are daring to challenge an orthodoxy . They believe the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even our great grandparen

The Ghost In Your Genes - 4 基因外遗传现象

...lead to the end of diseases like cancer... Alzheimer's , Parkinson's , diabetes. The list is endless. We were thinking of genes in a very mechanical way. We were thinking of them just in terms of t

The Ghost In Your Genes - 3 基因外遗传现象

Named after Henry Angelman, the pediatrician who first described Angelman syndrome. He referred to them as happy puppet children because it described, to some extent, the features. They have a rather

“世界上最丑的女人”出书励志 走出阴影拥抱人生

She has been ridiculed, stared at in the street and called 'the world's ugliest woman' by insensitive cyber bullies. 她不断被嘲笑，走在街上就被人盯着看，还被麻木不仁的网络暴民称为世上最丑的女人。 But, after year

Irish Voters to Decide Whether to Change Abortion Law

Irish voters will decide on Friday whether to end the countrys ban on abortion in most cases. Voters will be asked in a referendum whether the countrys constitution should be changed to remove current restrictions on abortion. A constitutional amendm

VOA慢速英语--“约翰的疯狂袜子”背后的疯狂成功

The Crazy Success Behind 'John's Crazy Socks' After graduating from high school, many young people are excited to go off to college. But not all. Some may want to skip college and jump right into a business. That was the case with John Cronin from Lo

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E 电泳 electrophoresis Ellis - van Creveld syndrome 酶 enzyme 外显子 exon F 家族性地中海热 familial Mediterranean fever 荧光原位杂交 fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) 脆性

SSS 2009-01-20

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. For years, scientists and physicians have been up in arms about the rise in antibiotic resistance. Seems that many bacteria, devious buggers that they ar

SSS 2010-04-13

People start stereotyping early. Even toddlers react positively to members of their own race, but often distrust those from different groups. The seeds of racism are planted in most everyone. Everyone, that is, except people with a rare genetic condi

2007年VOA标准英语-Study Shows Restless Leg Syndrome Traced to Gen

By Melinda Smith Washington 23 July 2007 It has been estimated that ten percent of people worldwide suffer from Restless Leg Syndrome . RLS is a neurological disorder that makes it difficult to sit or lie still for long periods of time. The disorder

VOA慢速英语-Health Report - Understanding Down Syndrome

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Deep inside each cell in our body is all the genetic information needed for life. Human genes are normally organized along forty-six chromosomes -- twenty-three from each parent. David Petersohn of Libe

VOA慢速英语2011-SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Are Bone Pieces Fro

CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Im Christopher Cruise. FAITH LAPIDUS: And Im Faith Lapidus. Today, we will tell about an effort to learn what happened to American pilot Amelia Earhart. We will tell about a grou

VOA标准英语2012--Definitions of Autism Are Changing

Definitions of Autism Are Changing The Perromat family has three beautiful boys: Lucas, Philip and Thomas. Philip is the middle child. By the time he was a toddler, Kim and Carlos Perromat had already suspected that Philip's failure to make eye conta

美国国家公共电台 NPR Down Syndrome Families Divided Over Abortion Ban

SARAH MCCAMMON, BYLINE: Ohio might soon become the latest state to restrict abortions. A bill to ban doctors from performing abortions after a Down syndrome diagnosis has passed both chambers of the state legislature and could be on its way to the go

【英语时差8，16】男性生物钟

Tick-tock, tick-tock. Is that your biological clock? And if it is, are you female? Most people think biological clocks are strictly female phenomena, with infertility and the risk of certain diseases going up with a mother's age. But the biological c

【文摘】男性生物钟

Tick-tock, tick-tock. Is that your biological clock? And if it is, are you female? Most people think biological clocks are strictly female phenomena, with infertility and the risk of certain diseases

VOA标准英语2010年-Pregnancies After 40 Cause Slight Incr

Earlier this month, a prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, retracted a report that linked autism to a vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella. Autism is a complex disability that affects a person's ability to communicate and interact with othe

基因工程常用词汇

基因工程常用词汇 A 腺苷脱氨酶缺乏症 adenosine deaminase deficiency (ADA) 腺病毒 adenovirus Alagille综合征 Alagille syndrome 等位基因 allele 氨基酸 amino acids 动物模型 animal model 抗体 antibody 凋亡 apoptosis 路-巴综合征 ataxia-telangiectasia 常染

中国发现治疗肥胖症儿童方法

BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A research team led by Chinese scientists have discovered dietary modulation of gut microbiota can alleviate both genetic and simple obesity in children. The findings of the team, led by Zhao Liping with Shanghai Jiaotong

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SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Some people in life can see whole worlds in small things. Hugh Rienhoff can see it in a molecule called transforming growth factor-beta 3. In 2003, his daughter, Beatrice, was born with a few noticeable abnormalities. Her eyes were