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        Gene therapy may be in its infancy, but great hopes for its potential to treat everything from cancer to Alzheimer’s to heart disease are forcing it to grow up fast. After two decades of lab research, gene treatments are increasingly making their way into human clinical trials. The bulk of research so far has focused on getting a gene to its destination and coaxing it to turn on once inside a cell. On their own, genes can’t pass through cell membranes, and much effort has been spent to trick cells into accepting foreign genes. The most efficient couriers are so-called viral vectors: viruses whose genomes have been swapped out for therapeutic genes. Like Trojan horses, they slip genes into target cells undetected. But as scientists are learning, there is no safe way to hijack a virus. The vectors sometimes trigger  immune reactions. And once the genes are inside a cell, there is no way to be sure they will function as intended. Case in point: a Paris gene therapy trial to treat SCIDs, or the “bubble boy disease,” restored immune function in nine of 10 patients. But it was later revealed that two of them had developed leukemia.
【題組】46 What is the main idea of the passage?
(A) After two decades of lab research, gene therapy in humans has been successful in treating everything from cancer to Alzheimer’s to heart disease.
(B) A lot of research in gene therapy has focused on getting a gene to its destination and coaxing it to turn on once inside a cell.
(C) Although research has been done on how gene therapy can help treat serious diseases, such a treatment may cause irreversible side effects and unknown consequences.
(D) Viral vectors like Trojan horses slip genes into target cells undetected.


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【站僕】摩檸Morning 國三下 (2015/02/09)
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知道自己無知(謙虛),自狂 研一上 (2018/04/30)

Gene therapy may be in its infancy, but great hopes for its potential to treat everything from cancer to Alzheimer’s to heart disease are forcing it to grow up fast.

基因療法可能還處於起步階段,但對治療癌症,老年癡呆症,心髒病等所有疾病的潛力寄予厚望,迫使其迅速成長。

After two decades of lab research, gene treatments are increasingly making their way into human clinical trials.

經過二十年的實驗室研究,基因治療越來越多地進入人體臨床試驗階段。

The bulk of research so far has focused on getting a gene to its destination and coaxing it to turn on once inside a cell.

到目前為止,大部分研究都集中在...


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知道自己無知(謙虛),自狂 研一上 (2018/04/30)

infancy 'ɪnfənsi 幼年,初期,幼兒期

potential pət'ɛnʃəl 潛在性,可能性,潛力,潛能,勢,位(a.)有潛力的,可能的,潛在的

lab l'æb 實驗室,研究室

clinical kl'ɪnəkəl (a.)臨床的,病房用的

trial tr'ɑɪəl 審判,試驗,艱苦,麻煩事,考驗(a.)嘗試的,試驗性的 

bulk b'ʌlk 大小,體積,大批,大多數(vt.)顯得大,顯得重要 

destination d,ɛstən'eʃən  目的地目的文件,目的單元

coax  k'oks  (vt.)哄,誘騙,慢慢的做好(vi.)哄騙哄騙 

membrane m'ɛmbr,en 薄膜,膜皮,羊皮紙

courier k'ɚiɚ  送快信的,急差,旅行從仆居裏

genome dʒ'in,om 染色體組; 基因組

swap sw'ɑp  以貨易貨(vt.)(vi.)交換,替換,交易 

therapeutic  θ,ɛrəpj'utɪk(a.)...


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