博士羅伯特溫伯格 Now this is something for religious bigots, who oppose embryonic stem cell research on ethical grounds (logically unsustainable but when have bigots listened to logic?), to chew upon.現在,這是宗教執迷不悟,誰反對胚胎幹細胞研究的倫理的理由(在邏輯上不可持續的,但時有執迷不悟聽取了邏輯呢? ) ,咀嚼後。 Latest research on cancer indicates that the dominant mechanism of cancer cells is to behave like early embryonic stem cells.最新的癌症研究表明,佔主導地位的機制,癌細胞是做人一樣,早期的胚胎幹細胞。

Until recently most scientists believed that all the cancer cells within a tumor were essentially equivalent to each other.直到最近,大多數科學家認為,所有的癌症細胞腫瘤基本上相當於對方。 But over the last three or four years, there’s come increasing evidence that within solid tumors, as well as blood-born tumors, there is a hierarchy of cancer cells, with some cells being more important than others.但在過去三,四年來,有來越來越多的證據表明與實體腫瘤,以及血液出生的腫瘤,是有層次的癌細胞,有些細胞更重要的比別人。 A cancer stem cell is defined as a cell that, when plucked out of the tumor and introduced into a new host like a mouse, is able to spawn an entirely new tumor.癌症幹細胞是指作為一個細胞,當彈撥出腫瘤,並介紹到一個新的主機一樣,鼠標,是能夠引發一個完全新的腫瘤。

According to research by, professor of biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, it is now increasingly apparent that one possibly dominant mechanism of cancer cell involves the ability by the cells to resurrect early embryonic behavioral programs.據研究,生物學教授在麻省理工學院和的創始成員之一,白石研究所生物醫學研究,現在是越來越明顯,其中一個可能的主導機制,涉及到癌細胞的能力,由細胞復活早期胚胎的行為程序。
In the embryo, these programs normally enable different tissues to form and depend on the ability of embryonic cells to move from one site in the body to another.在胚胎,這些程序通常使不同組織形式和依賴於能力的胚胎細胞能夠從一個網站在身體到另一個。 This movement in the embryo is superficially similar to metastasis.這項運動在胚胎表面上是相似的轉移。 The way cancer cells acquire this embryonic trait of being able to move throughout the organism depends on their ability to resurrect these early embryonic behavioral programs, which they do through their ability to induce the expression of early embryonic transcription factors.方式癌細胞獲得這種胚胎性狀能夠動議整個有機體,取決於他們的能力復活,這些早期胚胎的行為程序,他們這樣做,通過他們的能力,誘導表達的早期胚胎的轉錄因子。 In this case, these transcription factors control groups of genes that, when turned on, allow the cancer cells to move, to become invasive, to resist programmed cell death (which otherwise threatens their existence once they leave the primary tumor), and even to release degradative enzymes that break down the surrounding tissue that represents an impediment to the forward march of the cancer cells.在這種情況下,這些轉錄因子對照組的基因,當打開,讓癌細胞的動議,成為侵入性,抵制程序性細胞死亡(其中,否則威脅到他們的存在,一旦他們離開原發腫瘤) ,甚至釋放降解酶分解周圍組織的代表妨礙前進三月的癌細胞。 Source: Technology Review (資料來源:技術審查( link鏈接 )

As cancer cells are like embryonic stem cells, so cancer surgery should be akin to abortion and that is made equivalent to murder by stem cell opponents in their warped world-view.由於癌細胞一樣,胚胎幹細胞,所以癌症手術應是同屬人工流產,這是取得相等於謀殺幹細胞的對手,他們的扭曲的世界的看法。 Shouldn’t now stem cell opponents be opposing cancer surgery too?現在不應幹細胞的對手反對癌症手術太?

Concept: Joel B.概念:約珥乙