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据英国《镜报》报道,美国德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的科学家近日通过向蠕虫注射一种能够抵消酒精麻痹作用的新成分,成功将普通蠕虫变成“千杯不醉”。报道称,接受实验的蠕虫是秀丽隐杆线虫。科学家通过基因修饰来修改其体内的一个靶蛋白。靶蛋白是生物体大脑感知酒精的分子通道(BK通道)。科学家称将该蠕虫放入酒精的培养皿中,它很快会醉倒,表现为爬行缓慢,尾巴摇摆次数变少,但是经过基因改造后,这条虫子在培养皿中完全没有喝醉的迹象。
According to the British “Mirror,” reports, scientists at the University of Texas at Austin recently succeeded in turning ordinary worms into “a cup of drunk ” by injecting worms with a new ingredient that counteracts the effects of alcohol paralysis. Reported that the worm is Caenorhabditis elegans. Scientists modify a target protein in their body by genetic modification. The target protein is the molecular channel (BK channel) in the brain of an organism that perceives alcohol. Scientists said the worm into alcohol petri dishes, it will soon drunk, showing slow crawling, tail less swinging, but after the genetically modified, the worm in the dish there is no sign of drunk .