VOA标准英语2012--New Texas Institute Coordinates Space Medicine Research-英语课

时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(四月)

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New Texas Institute Coordinates 2 Space Medicine Research

Since the human space flight adventure began more than 50 years ago, scientists have learned a lot about things like the effects of weightlessness on bones and muscles, and the danger of increased radiation exposure in space.

The primary mission of the non-profit National Space Biomedical Research Institute, located at Rice University, is to coordinate 1 and support research projects designed to assist the U.S. space program.
Institute Director is Dr. Jeffrey Sutton said, “What we are basically doing is serving as a hub where the research and development in biomedical research for space that is taking place at a distributed network of institutions then comes to this entity 3 for testing and evaluation 4.”
Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison had a firsthand look at the institute at its official opening in March, trying out a small ultrasound device that researchers say could be used not only for diagnosis 5, but also for treating kidney stones and other ailments 6.
One of the institute's key functions is sponsoring lectures and conferences on aerospace 7 medical research, like this one at the nearby Baylor School of Medicine.
Jennifer Law, an aerospace medicine specialist, says doctors in this field describe it as “normal physiology 8 in an abnormal environment.” “By studying the body in a different environment, essentially 9 we are taking away the constant here of gravity and you are seeing how the different body systems adapt to microgravity," she said.
Law says a lot of research done in space has helped develop treatments for people on earth suffering from such ailments as osteoporosis.
But NASA's longterm goal of sending humans millions of kilometers to Mars, on a roundtrip mission lasting 10 more than a year, raises all sorts of health concerns, especially radiation.
There are also concerns about what psychological and social problems could result from having a crew crowded together in a small vehicle for a long period, soaring through a place where no humans have ever gone before.
“What we are trying to do is push the frontiers of medicine, of space... to move us to the next step... and it is certainly not risk free, at all. It is a very risky 11 enterprise," said Sutton.
But Sutton says humanity's future could depend on the ability to travel safely beyond our native planet.

1 coordinate

adj.同等的，协调的；n.同等者；vt.协作，协调

You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。

2 coordinates

n.相配之衣物；坐标( coordinate的名词复数 )；（颜色协调的）配套服装；[复数]女套服；同等重要的人（或物）v.使协调，使调和( coordinate的第三人称单数 )；协调；协同；成为同等