Jackie: Welcome to BBC Learning English dot com and Insight Plus - a series first broadcast in 2001 that looks at the language of issues you hear about in the news. How far should science go to help the sick and the suffering? Today on Insight Plus,

发表于:2019-01-07 / 阅读(141) / 评论(0) 分类 英语讨论

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky . Got a minute ? The Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to three men who revolutionized molecular life science, Japans Osamu Shimomura and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien. They dev

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I am Steve Mirsky.Got a minute? Talk about your vicious cycles. A new study finds that belly fat could be making you hungrier. Which would lead to more belly fat. The research was performed at the Univ

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Only 10 percent of people die from primary tumors. The real problem is when it spreads around the body. The problem of metastases. Arizona State Universitys Paul Davies, s

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science.I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? Hi. Im running. Im also telling some ofmy stem cells what to do right now. Well, I probably am, based on a new study with mice. We have what are called mesenchymal stemce

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Bethesda, Maryland, near Washington, D.C., is home to the National Institutes of Health. N.I.H. calls itself the Nation's Medical Research Agency. But it supports research worldwide with its budget of a

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Science and Technology Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Breaking down the barrier 科技 克雅氏病 攻破屏障 A glimmer of hope for a drug that treats disease caused by prions 药物治疗朊病毒感染疾病的一线希望 THE epidemic of mad-cow dis

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SCIENCE IN THE NEWS - Americans Win All the Nobel Prizes for Science in Two Thousand SixBy Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special En

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved HEMACORD, the first licensed hematopoietic progenitor cells-cord cell therapy. HEMACORD is indicated for use in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation pro

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(155) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

Weve all been there: Its been a long week at work, so Friday night, you reward yourself by going to bed early and sleeping in. But when you wake up the next morning (or afternoon), light scathes your eyes, and your limbs feel like theyre filled with

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Human bodies are frail, easily damaged packages full of parts that can never fully come back once lost. Luckily, researchers worldwide are working on replacing every bit of the body to make us all cyborgs. 人的身体是十分脆弱的,有些娇弱的

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And the first myth is if you try really hard 谣言一:如果你很努力地尝试, you can live to be 100. 你就可以活到一百岁。 False. 错了。 The problem is, only about one out of 5,000 people 事实上,在美国,每五千人中只

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(57) / 评论(0) 分类 TED演讲科学篇

Science in Japan 日本科学界 Stress test 压力测试 After a scandal, a renowned stem-cell scientist commits suicide 爆出丑闻后,一位大名鼎鼎的干细胞科学家自杀 Dr Sasai faces the music 聚光镜前的笹井博士 WHAT happen

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Science and technology 科学技术 The nature of humanity 人类本质 What's a man? 什么是人类 Studies of brain genetics are starting to reveal what makes humans human 大脑遗传研究,为你解开人之所以为人的奥秘 THE problem wi

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Science and technology 科学技术 Ageing 衰老 Forever young? 青春永驻? A way to counteract part of the process of growing old 一个减缓衰老进程的途径 BIOLOGISTS have made a lot of progress in understanding ageing. 在对人类衰老

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Almost any amount and type of physical activity may slow aging deep within our cells, a new study finds. And middle age may be a critical time to get the process rolling, at least by one common measure of cell aging. 一项新研究发现,不论运动

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Scientists say early experiments suggest it may one day be possible to make babies without using eggs. 科学家称,早期实验表明,将来某一天或许不需要卵子就能孕育出婴儿。 They have succeeded in creating healthy baby mice

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Science and technology 科学技术 Surviving strokes 挺过中风 Living on 继续活着 Why some cells survive strokes while others don't 为什么有些细胞能幸免于中风,而另一些则不能 WHEN dealing with a strokea loss of blood supp

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Science and technology 科学技术 The uses of stem cells 干细胞的应用 Potent medicine 特效医学 Stem cells may transform the development of new drugs 干细胞可能改写新药发展 PLURIPOTENT is a long word that means able to do many t

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Bacteria are the oldest living organisms on the earth. 细菌是地球上最古老的生物。 They've been here for billions of years, and what they are are single-celled microscopic organisms. 它们已经存在数十亿年了,它们是单细胞微

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