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With that in mind, and working with the St Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park in Florida, Dr Bishop obtained fresh Komodo dragon blood.
有了這種想法，Bishop博士和弗羅里達(dá)圣奧古斯丁的短吻鱷農(nóng)場(chǎng)動(dòng)物園合作，獲得了新鮮的可摩多蜥蜴血液！
He examined the blood for peptides with molecular weights, lengths, electrical charges and chemical characteristics that were similar to those from known AMPs.
他檢查了血液中的肽的分子量，長(zhǎng)度，電荷和化學(xué)性質(zhì)，發(fā)現(xiàn)其與AMPs中的肽的性質(zhì)相似。
He then analysed the peptides using a mass spectrometer and a combination of commercial and home-brewed software to identify which of the newly discovered peptides were likely to have medicinal potential.
他接著利用質(zhì)譜儀分析了提取的多肽，并利用商用和自用軟件分析了這些新發(fā)現(xiàn)的肽，以辨別哪些有合成藥物的潛質(zhì)。
The team identified 48 potential AMPs that had never been seen before.
該團(tuán)隊(duì)識(shí)別了48種可能是AMPs的蛋白質(zhì)，此前從未發(fā)現(xiàn)過。
Their initial tests were equally promising.
他們的試驗(yàn)起初看來是同樣的有希望。
Dr Van Hoek exposed two species of pathogenic bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus, to eight of the most promising peptides they had identified.
Van博士將兩種致病菌，銅綠假單胞菌和金黃葡萄球菌，暴露于他們發(fā)現(xiàn)的其中8種最可能的的多肽。
The growth of both species of bacteria was severely hampered by seven of the eight; the remaining peptide was effective against only P. aeruginosa.
在其中7種多肽前，兩種細(xì)菌的生長(zhǎng)被明顯的限制；剩下的一種只對(duì)銅綠假單胞菌有抑制作用。
There results are noteworthy. Antibiotic-proof bacteria are an increasing problem in hospitals.
結(jié)果值得注意。耐藥菌是醫(yī)院日益增加的一個(gè)問題。
Such bugs are now thought to kill some 700,000 people each year around the world, and P. aeruginosa and S. aureus are parental strains for some of the most menacing types.
這些細(xì)菌每年在全世界造成700，000人死亡，銅綠假單胞菌和金葡菌一些最具威脅類型的親代菌株。
On February 27th the World Health Organisation named both in its first-ever list of “priority pathogens”, for which drug-resistance is a serious problem.
2月27號(hào)，WHO在它的第一份優(yōu)先病原體名單中對(duì)上述兩種細(xì)菌點(diǎn)過名，因?yàn)槟退幰咽且粋€(gè)嚴(yán)重問題。
Dr Bishop’s findings hint that the blood of dragons may yet prove to be as useful against disease as myths suggest.
Bishop博士的發(fā)現(xiàn)暗示巨蜥血液可能還沒有被證明像神話傳說的那樣，對(duì)疾病的抵御那么有效。
英文文本來自經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人 譯文來自李一然
