VOA标准英语2011--Calfornia Foundation Announces $10 Million Genetics Prize
时间：2018-12-16 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2011年(十月)
Calfornia Foundation Announces $10 Million Genetics Prize
The X Prize Foundation is offering a $10 million prize to the reseach team that excels at fast, accurate and cheap genetic 1 sequencing.
On Wednesday, the California-based organization, which uses big cash prizes to motivate technological 2 achievement, announced the competition.
The top prize will be awarded to a research team that can accurately 3 sequence the genetic code of 100 centenarians within 30 days, and do it for $1,000 or less per person.
In the past, the X Prize Foundation has sponsored competitions in space exploration and fuel-efficient motor vehicles. Now, it has turned its focus to medical technology.
"The primary goal of this prize is to really get to a point where whole-genomic sequencing has real medical application," says Grant Campany, senior director for the $10 million Archon Genomics X Prize.
Human genome sequencing has become better, faster, and cheaper since it was first achieved a decade ago. But results can be inconsistent from one lab to the next. Consequently, Campany says, it's currently more suitable for research than for diagnosing and treating patients.
Insight into long life is one of the goals of the X Prize Foundation competition, which comes with a $10 million prize.
"A key goal of this prize is to really set a standard for what quality is for whole-genomic sequencing and finally prove to the world that these technologies are truly capable of achieving a quality standard that would have potentially medical applications."
Teams entering the competition will separately work on genetic samples from the same 100 individuals, each of them over 100 years old. When the individual results are combined, X Prize Foundation organizers hope for what they call a "medical-grade" genome that may shed new light on why some people can live for a century in generally good health.
"What we're trying to isolate 4 here is the real genetic reason for these individuals being able to live long lives and evade 5 diseases that impair 6 or kill millions of people much earlier in life," says Campany.
The X Prize Foundation is actively 7 looking for people willing to contribute their DNA 8 to the competition. They want a diverse group of healthy people 100 years old, or preferably older. The competition begins in January 2013.
- It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
- Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。
- A successful company must keep up with the pace of technological change.一家成功的公司必须得跟上技术变革的步伐。
- Today,the pace of life is increasing with technological advancements.当今， 随着科技进步，生活节奏不断增快。
- It is hard to hit the ball accurately.准确地击中球很难。
- Now scientists can forecast the weather accurately.现在科学家们能准确地预报天气。
- Do not isolate yourself from others.不要把自己孤立起来。
- We should never isolate ourselves from the masses.我们永远不能脱离群众。
- He tried to evade the embarrassing question.他企图回避这令人难堪的问题。
- You are in charge of the job.How could you evade the issue?你是负责人，你怎么能对这个问题不置可否？
- Loud noise can impair your hearing.巨大的噪音有损听觉。
- It can not impair the intellectual vigor of the young.这不能磨灭青年人思想活力。