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2024考研英语同源外刊:一比利时公司想造长毛象汉堡

Just a strand of Elvis’s hair would do. Pluck out his DNA and it could be copied millions of times using a technique called the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). That was the business plan pitched in the 1990s by Kary Mullis, an American biologist. Mullis had helped develop PCR in the 1980s; in 1993 he shared a Nobel prize. “StarGene”, as his company was known, hoped to make money by selling jewellery stuffed with celebrity DNA.

只要一缕猫王(著名摇滚歌星)的头发就行了。取出猫王的DNA，利用聚合酶链式反应技术可以将猫王的DNA复制数百万次。这是美国生物学家卡利·穆利斯在上世纪90年代提出的商业计划。穆利斯在20世纪80年代帮助开发了聚合酶链式反应技术;1993年，穆利斯分享了诺贝尔奖。穆利斯的公司名为“星基因”，希望通过出售填充了名人DNA的珠宝来赚钱。

The idea never quite worked out. But that has not stopped a slew of newer firms also hoping to mine gold from dead individuals—or even entire species. Paleo, for instance, is a Belgian startup that creates synthetic proteins for the artificial-meat business. Driven in part by a “childhood fascination with prehistory”, Hermes Sanctorum, the company’s CEO, is keen to expand the business into making woolly-mammoth burgers.

虽然这个想法从未完全实现过，但这并没有阻止一大批新公司也希望从死去的个体甚至整个物种中挖掘出值钱的东西。例如，Paleo是一家比利时的初创公司，为人造肉行业生产合成蛋白质。由于“在童年很迷恋史前时代”， Paleo的首席执行官Hermes Sanctorum热衷于将业务扩展到制作长毛象汉堡上面。

Working with the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Sweden, the firm has obtained fragments of DNA from mammoth teeth found in the Siberian permafrost that are up to 1.2m years old. These fragments were combined with DNA from Asian and African elephants, the mammoth’s nearest living relatives, to reconstruct what the firm hopes is the mammoth version of the gene that encodes myoglobin, a protein that helps give meat its rich taste and vibrant red colour. That gene was inserted into the DNA of yeast, which duly began turning out mammoth myoglobin. The protein was mixed with binders such as potato starch, oil, salt and other flavours so that it resembled the taste and texture of a burger.

Paleo与瑞典古遗传学中心合作，从西伯利亚永久冻土中发现的120万年前的猛犸象牙齿中获得了DNA片段。这些片段与亚洲象和非洲象(猛犸象现存的近亲)的DNA相结合，重建了Paleo希望的猛犸象基因版本，这种版本的基因可以编码肌红蛋白，肌红蛋白是一种有助于赋予肉类丰富口感和鲜红颜色的蛋白质。这种基因被插入到酵母的DNA中，酵母会适时地开始生产猛犸肌红蛋白。这种蛋白质与马铃薯淀粉、油、盐和其他口味的粘合剂混合在一起，使其味道和口感类似于汉堡。

 

单词：

Belgian /ˈbeldʒən/ adj. 比利时的;

woolly-mammoth/ˈwʊli ˈmæməθ/ n. 毛象;

burger /ˈbɜːrɡər/ n. 汉堡;

strand /strænd/ n. 缕;

pluck out 拔出，抽出;取出;

polymerase chain reaction 聚合酶链式反应;

business plan 商业计划;

pitch /pɪtʃ/ vt. 推销;

develop /dɪˈveləp/ vt. 开发;

Nobel prize 诺贝尔奖;

jewellery /ˈdʒuːəlri/ n. 珠宝，首饰;

stuff/stʌf/ vt. 塞进，填进;填满，装满;

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