奥巴马提议拨款2亿多美元 研究精准施药

 　　U.S. President Barack Obama wants to invest $215 million into a new health initiative that would help tailor medical treatment to an individual's genetic² make-up.

　　奥巴马总统提议向美国一项新的基因研究计划投资2亿一千五百万美元。

　　President Obama will propose Friday the bulk of the money goes to the National Institutes of Health and its affiliate³, the National Cancer Institute for the development of "precision medicine;" a treatment that would replace a "one size fits all" approach to medicine.

　　奥巴马星期五将提议把这笔钱的大部分拨给美国国家卫生研究院及其下属的美国国家癌症研究所，用于研制”精准施药”，以取代目前所谓“一刀切”的用药办法。

　　奥巴马提议拨款2亿多美元 研究精准施药

　　A White House Statement said "most medical treatments have been designed for the 'average patient'....as a result, treatments can be very successful for some patients, but not for others."

　　白宫发表声明说，大多数药物都是为“一般病人”设计的，结果对有些病患有效，对有些人无效。

　　The funding would be used to collect gene¹, chemical, lifestyle and other data from one million volunteers who would be studied to determine how genetic variants⁴ affect health and disease.

　　研究人员将用这笔钱来收集100万名志愿者的基因、化学反应、生活方式等数据，研究判断基因差异如何影响到健康和疾病。

　　But first, the initiative, which is part of the Democratic president's 2016 budget, must be approved by the Republican-controlled Congress.

　　这项拨款是奥巴马2016年预算开支计划的一部分。该计划必须得到共和党控制的国会的批准。

　　Mr. Obama said in his recent State of the Union address that he wants "the country that eliminated polio and mapped the human genome to lead a new era of medicine."

　　奥巴马在最近的国情咨文讲话中说，美国灭了小儿麻痹症，绘制了人类基因组图谱。他希望美国带领世界进入医学研究的新时代。

1 gene   

n.遗传因子，基因

参考例句：

• A single gene may have many effects.单一基因可能具有很多种效应。
• The targeting of gene therapy has been paid close attention.其中基因治疗的靶向性是值得密切关注的问题之一。

2 genetic   

adj.遗传的，遗传学的

参考例句：

• It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
• Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。

3 affiliate   

vt.使隶(附)属于；n.附属机构，分公司

参考例句：

• Our New York company has an affiliate in Los Angeles.我们的纽约公司在洛杉矶有一个下属企业。
• What is the difference between affiliate and regular membership?固定会员和附属会员之间的区别是什么？

4 variants   

n.变体( variant的名词复数 )；变种；变型；（词等的）变体

参考例句：

• Those variants will be preserved in the'struggle for existence". 这些变异将在“生存竞争”中被保留下来。 来自辞典例句
• Like organisms, viruses have variants, generally called strains. 与其他生物一样，病毒也有变种，一般称之为株系。 来自辞典例句