(タイトル:獣と人間のハイブリッド!?) Animal-Human Hybrids Spark Controversy Maryann Mott National Geographic News January 25, 2005
(副題:科学者の仕業か・・キメラ?) Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras—a hybrid creature that's part human, part animal.
(第一パラグラフ:中国でのキメラ計画は?) Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfully created. They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells.
注:stem cells 幹細胞
(第2パラグラフ:ミネソタでもキメラが・・) In Minnesota last year researchers at the Mayo Clinic created pigs with human blood flowing through their bodies.
(第3パラグラフ:スタンフォード大でもキメラが・・) And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.
(第4パラグラフ:キメラに関する科学者の意見?) Scientists feel that, the more humanlike the animal, the better research model it makes for testing drugs or possibly growing "spare parts," such as livers, to transplant into humans.
(第5パラグラフ:科学者の意見?:列挙also) Watching how human cells mature and interact in a living creature may also lead to the discoveries of new medical treatments.
(第6パラグラフ:反論開始!!キメラがもたらす問題) But creating human-animal chimeras—named after a monster in Greek mythology that had a lion's head, goat's body, and serpent's tail—has raised troubling questions: What new subhuman combination should be produced and for what purpose? At what point would it be considered human? And what rights, if any, should it have? There are currently no U.S. federal laws that address these issues.
問題4 fuse A with B confuse diffuse effuse infuse profuse refuse transfuse
問題5 embryos
問題6 Scientists feel that, the more humanlike the animal, the better research model it makes for testing drugs or possibly growing "spare parts," such as livers, to transplant into humans.の意味
問題4 fuseは溶かす、流す、そそぐ fuse A with B AとBを融合させる confuse 混乱させる diffuse 拡散させる(di 離れて) effuse 放出する(e 外に) infuse 注入する(in 中に) profuse 豊富な、気前のよい(pro 前に) refuse 拒絶する transfuse 輸血する
問題5 embryos 胎児、胚
問題6 Scientists feel that, the more humanlike the animal, the better research model it makes for testing drugs or possibly growing "spare parts," such as livers, to transplant into humans.の意味 科学者は動物が人間に似れば似るほど、そういった存 在は製薬の実験や肝臓のような人間に移植できるよ うなスペアの部品を育てるためのよりよい研究モデ ルになりうると感じている。
問題7 lead toの意味と同意表現(cで始まる、bring使う) 〜を引き起こす、cause, bring about, give rise to , result in