幹細胞に関係する話には医学用語がつきものですが、The Case against Perfectionに出てきた二つの医学用語は覚えたいと思います。 次ぎの文にその内の一つがあります。
Hoping to promote cures for diabetes, Parkinson's, and other degenerative diseases, Congress had voted to fund new embryonic stem cell research, in which scientists isolate cells capable of becoming any tissue in the body. The President refused to go along. He argued that the research is unethical because deriving these cells destroys the blastocyst, an unimplanted embryo at the sixth to eighth day of development.
この話は２００６年の事で、この大統領はGeorge W. Bushを指しています。 気になる単語 "blastocyst" の意味を辞書で見ます。
.・Collins English Dictionary: Also called: blastosphere. the blastula of mammals: a sphere of cells (trophoblast) enclosing: an inner mass of cells and a fluid-filled cavity (blastocoel)
・Vocabulary.com: early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs
いまひとつイメージが湧きません。更に調べると英絵辞典The Visual Dictionaryに "Blastocyst: part of the development of the egg where the dividing cells form a sac.
図が載っているページは次ぎのＵＲＬにあります。
http://www.infovisual.info/03/067_en.html
Hoping to promote cures for diabetes, Parkinson's, and other degenerative diseases, Congress had voted to fund new embryonic stem cell research, in which scientists isolate cells capable of becoming any tissue in the body. The President refused to go along. He argued that the research is unethical because deriving these cells destroys the blastocyst, an unimplanted embryo at the sixth to eighth day of development.
この話は２００６年の事で、この大統領はGeorge W. Bushを指しています。 気になる単語 "blastocyst" の意味を辞書で見ます。
.・Collins English Dictionary: Also called: blastosphere. the blastula of mammals: a sphere of cells (trophoblast) enclosing: an inner mass of cells and a fluid-filled cavity (blastocoel)
・Vocabulary.com: early stage of an embryo produced by cleavage of an ovum; a liquid-filled sphere whose wall is composed of a single layer of cells; during this stage (about eight days after fertilization) implantation in the wall of the uterus occurs
いまひとつイメージが湧きません。更に調べると英絵辞典The Visual Dictionaryに "Blastocyst: part of the development of the egg where the dividing cells form a sac.
図が載っているページは次ぎのＵＲＬにあります。
http://www.infovisual.info/03/067_en.html
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