首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Well, he made it up. All of it, apparently. According to a report published on December 29th by Seoul National University in Sou
Well, he made it up. All of it, apparently. According to a report published on December 29th by Seoul National University in Sou
admin
2011-03-22
86
问题
Well, he made it up. All of it, apparently. According to a report published on December 29th by Seoul National University in South Korea, its erstwhile employee Hwang Woo-suk, who had tendered his resignation six days earlier, deliberately falsified his data in the paper on human embryonic stem cells that he and 24 colleagues published in Science in May 2005.
In particular, Dr Hwang claimed he had created 11 colonies of human embryonic stem ceils genetically matched to specific patients. He had already admitted that nine of these were bogus, but had said that this was the result of an honest mistake, and that the other two were still the real McCoy. A panel of experts appointed by the university to investigate the matter, however, disagreed. They found that DNA fingerprint traces conducted on the stem-cell lines reported in the paper had been manipulated to make it seem as if all 11 lines were tailored to specific patients. In fact, none of them matched the volunteers with spinal-cord injuries and diabetes who had donated skin cells for the work. To obtain his promising "results", Dr Hwang had sent for testing two samples from each donor, rather than a sample from the donor and a sample of the cells into which the donor’s DNA had supposedly been transplanted.
The panel also found that a second claim in the paper — that only 185 eggs were used to create the 11 stem cell lines — was false. The investigators said the actual number of eggs used was far larger, in the thousands, although they were unable to determine an exact figure. The reason this double fraud is such a blow is that human embryonic stem-cell research has great expectations. Stem cells, which have not yet been programmed to specialise and can thus, in principle, grow into any tissue or organ, could be used to treat illnesses ranging from diabetes to Parkinson’s disease. They might even be able to fix spinal-cord injuries. And stem cells cloned from a patient would not be rejected as foreign by his immune system.
Dr Hwang’s reputation, of course, is in tatters. The university is now investigating two other groundbreaking experiments he claims to have conducted — the creation of the world’s first cloned human embryo and the extraction of stem cells from it, and the creation of the world’s first cloned dog. He is also in trouble for breaching ethical guidelines by using eggs donated by members of his research team.
And it is even possible that the whole farce may have been for nothing. Cloned embryos might be the ideal source of stem cells intended to treat disease, but if it proves too difficult to create them, a rough-and-ready alternative may suffice.
The best title for the passage may be ______.
选项
A、Hwang is found guilty of fabricating his results
B、How a stem-cell researcher fabricates his results
C、The consequence of a made-up experiment
D、Hwang Woo-suk’s resignation
答案
A
解析
本题为主旨题。根据全文的内容,第1段报道了事件的前因后果,黄禹锡提出辞职,后面几段详细披露事件真相,公布了专门审核小组的调查结果,分析了黄禹锡的造假动机及东窗事发以后所受到的惩罚。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/qFxd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Eachyear,anaverageof______peoplevisittheNiagaraFalls.
【B1】Whiletherearealmostasmanydefinitionsofhistoryastherearehistorians,modernpracticemostcloselyconformstoone
Accordingtothepassage,thecreditcardenablesitsownerto______.
Predictionsofmanyrobotsinindustryhaveyetcometrue.Fortenyearsormore,manufacturersofbigrobotshaveexplainedhow
ReadthefollowingpassagecarefullyandthentranslatetheunderlinedsegmentsintoChinese.Yourtranslationshouldbewritten
ReadthefollowingpassagecarefullyandthentranslatetheunderlinedsegmentsintoChinese.Yourtranslationshouldbewritten
ThedivorcerateinAmericahasreached____________________________________
Themorewomenandminoritiesmaketheirwayintotheranksofmanagement,themoretheyseemtowanttotalkaboutthingsforme
IfyouplantoflyoffonyourholidaysthisChristmasorNewYear,relax.Forgetthefactthatairlinercrasheshavekilledm
BoeingCo’sSonicCruiser,aproposedfasterairliner,wouldbemostlyblendedmaterial,programdirectorWaltGillettesaidrec
随机试题
Severalyearsintoacampaigntogetkidstoeatbetterandexercisemore,childobesityrateshaveappearedtostabilize,andm
可用麝香而不用冰片治疗的病证是
根据我国宪法和法律,下列哪些行为与法律的规定不相一致?()
沉井主要是靠井壁的自重来克服()而下沉的。
对用磁性介质保存的电算化会计档案应采用下列()方式进行保管
“罢黜百家,独尊儒术”是汉武帝实行的封建思想统治政策。()
试述元认知策略及其教学。
不受诉讼时效限制的情形有( )。
以下关于互联网IP地址的叙述中,错误的是()。
For…Next循环一般是用来给数组元素()赋值。
最新回复
(
0
)