关乎人命的 ART 协和八

 

小编按：

不要误会哈，今天的主题 ART 可不是指艺术，毕竟我们是一个学习医学英语的栏目嘛。本周的主题 ART，意为辅助生殖技术，即 assisted reproductive technology。作为一个在 20 世纪 70 年代才兴起的技术，ART年龄虽小，但本事很大，目前全世界已有超过 700 万名婴儿通过该技术顺利降生。连「中国第一狗仔」卓伟大大都需要求助于 ART ，如果你还不知道 ART 中的几个核心技术该怎么说，那就真的 OUT 了。今天就让我们跟随新人主播 Molly 一起来学习一下 ART 吧~

The range of reproductive options has steadily widened.AID (artificial insemination by donor, which dates back to the 19th century) andIVF (in vitro fertilisation, first used in the 1970s) have become everyday techniques. So hasICSI, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, in which a sperm cell is physically inserted into an egg, bringing fatherhood to otherwise infertile men. Last year another practice was added—mitochondrial transplantation or, as the headlines would have it, three-parent children. The world may soon face the possibility of eggs and sperm made from putative parents’ body cells (probably their skin) rather than in their ovaries and testes.