科学家或将改造人类基因以治疗遗传病_时事

科学家或将改造人类基因以治疗遗传病

美国国家科学院与国家医学院的科学家与伦理学家近日在一篇报告中指出，强大的基因编辑工具虽然尚未成熟，但有朝一日或能用来移除人类胚胎、卵子和精子中与遗传病相关的基因。报告称随着科技进步，对人类生殖细胞进行基因编辑“或将变为现实，值得严肃考虑。”

Scientists want to be able to genetically engineer humans so that they do not get diseases.

科学家们希望能够改造人类基因从而使他们免于病痛。

That is the conclusion of a new report from two of the world's most elite scientific institutions, which calls for people to be allowed to make modifications to inherited human DNA so that diseases are edited out or treatments are edited in.

这是两家世界顶尖科学机构最新发布的一份报告得出的结论。报告要求允许对人类的遗传DNA进行修改，从而删掉疾病基因或者通过基因编辑治疗遗传病。

Such controversial changes could allow scientists to stop diseases from being passed on to future generations.

科学家可以通过这种备受争议的改变阻止疾病遗传给后代。

The report is a landmark because it in effect amounts to an official sanctioning – by the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine – of medical research that looks to edit, remove or add DNA in human eggs cells, sperm or embryos.