VOA常速英语2008年-Advances in Genetic Medicine Still Not Availabl

By Melinda Smith
Washington
19 March 2008
 

A scientific review published in the Journal of American Medicine shows that the field of genetics has made a lot of progress in recent years.  According to JAMA, genetic¹ testing is able to identify more than 1,000 human genes² that can hold the keys to identifying risks of many diseases.  But as VOA's Melinda Smith reports, much of that information is not getting to patients.

Some video courtesy of Journal of the American Medical Association

1 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。

2 genes   

n.基因( gene的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• You have good genes from your parents, so you should live a long time. 你从父母那儿获得优良的基因，所以能够活得很长。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Differences will help to reveal the functions of the genes. 它们间的差异将会帮助我们揭开基因多种功能。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 生物技术的世纪