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There’s a human liver sitting in a lab dish in Madison, Wis. Also a heart, a brain and every bone in the human body even though
There’s a human liver sitting in a lab dish in Madison, Wis. Also a heart, a brain and every bone in the human body even though
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2011-02-25
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There’s a human liver sitting in a lab dish in Madison, Wis. Also a heart, a brain and every bone in the human body even though the contents of the dish are a few cells too small to be seen without a microscope. But these are stem cells, the most immature human cells ever discovered, taken from embryos before they had decided upon their career path in the body. (46)
If scientists could only figure out how to give them just the right kick in just the right direction, each could become a liver, a heart, a brain or a bone.
(47)
When a team from the University of Wisconsin announced their discovery, doctors around the world looked forward to a new era of medicine one without organ-donor shortages or the tissues-rejection problems that bedevil transplant patients today.
Doctors also saw obstacles, though. One of them was a U. S. Congress skittish about research on stem cells taken from unwanted human embryos and aborted fetuses. Indeed, 70 lawmakers asked in a firmly worded letter that the Federal Government ban all such work.
Yet the era of "grow your own" organs is already upon us, as researchers have sidestepped the stem cell controversy by making clever use of ordinary cells. Today a machinist in Massachusetts is using his own cells to grow a new thumb after he lost part of his chest wall in an accident. A teenager born without half of his chest wall is growing a new cage of bone and cartilage within his chest cavity. Scientists announced that bladders, grown from bladder cells in a lab, have been implanted in dogs and are working. Meanwhile, patches of skin, the first "tissue-engineered" organ to be approved by the U. S. Food and Drug Administration, are healing sores and skin ulcers on hundreds of patients across the U. S.
How have scientists managed to do all this without those protean stem cells? Part of the answer is smart engineering. (48)
Using materials such as polymers with pores no wider than a toothbrush bristle, researchers have learned to sculpt scaffolds in shapes into which cells can settle.
The other part of the answer is just plain cell biology. (49)
Scientists have discovered that they don’t have to teach old cells new tricks; given the right framework and the right nutrients, cells will organize themselves into real tissues as the scaffolds dissolve.
"I’m a great believer in the cells. They’re not just lying there, looking stupidly at each other," says Francois Auger, an infectious disease specialist and builder of artificial blood vessels at Laval University in Quebec City. "They will do the work for you if you treat them right."
Replacement hearts—or even replacement heart parts—are at least a decade off, estimates Kiki Hellman, who monitors tissue-engineering efforts for the FDA. "Any problem that requires lots of cell types ’talking’ to one another is really hard," she notes. Bone and cartilage efforts are much closer to fruition, and could be ready for human trials within two years. (50)
And what of those magical stem cells that can grow into any organ you happen to need—if the law and biologists’ knowledge permit?
"Using them," says Sefton, "is really the Holy Grail."
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答案
只要科学家掌握如何进行培育,它们就能成为真正的肝、心、大脑或骨骼。
解析
句子的框架是If scientists could only figure out…,each could become…。本句为一个简单的条件句,figure out译为“想出”,give them just the right kick不是固定词组,联系上下文,可译为“进行培育”。
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