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Concerns arise over sperm donors

时间：2011-09-07 06:44:58

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 　　Beijing, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- A sperm1 donation scandal disclosed recently has aroused growing concern in the United States.

　　According to the New York Times' report, Ryan Kramer, the son of a donor2, found that he has more than 150 half-siblings - they are all the children of the same donor.
　　"It's wild when we see them all together - they all look alike," said Cynthia Daily, mother of Kramer.
　　As more women choose to have children on their own, the demand for sperm donors3 has surged.
　　Some sperm banks are earning huge profits by allowing too many mothers to receive sperms4 from the same popular donors, according to the report.
　　And this trend will lead to risks: rare genetic5 diseases could be spread more widely, and the children of the same donor could meet and, unbeknownst to them, commit incest, medical experts warned.
　　Parents and donors are calling for a tighter regulation so that donor children can know more about their donors, and the number of kids from each donor can be limited.

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1 sperm jFOzO     
n.精子，精液
参考例句：
  • Only one sperm fertilises an egg.只有一个精子使卵子受精。
  • In human reproduction,one female egg is usually fertilized by one sperm.在人体生殖过程中，一个精子使一个卵子受精。
2 donor dstxI     
n.捐献者；赠送人；(组织、器官等的)供体
参考例句：
  • In these cases,the recipient usually takes care of the donor afterwards.在这类情况下，接受捐献者以后通常会照顾捐赠者。
  • The Doctor transplanted the donor's heart to Mike's chest cavity.医生将捐赠者的心脏移植进麦克的胸腔。
3 donors 89b49c2bd44d6d6906d17dca7315044b     
n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者
参考例句：
  • Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
  • About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 sperms 1b94e566aa1c00eb3617229a124394c4     
精子( sperm的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Sperms fertilize ova in the fallopian tube. 在输卵管内精子使卵受精。
  • The gender is determined by the father's sperms not by the mother. 性别是由爸爸的精子决定的而不是妈妈。
5 genetic PgIxp     
adj.遗传的，遗传学的
参考例句：
  • It's very difficult to treat genetic diseases.遗传性疾病治疗起来很困难。
  • Each daughter cell can receive a full complement of the genetic information.每个子细胞可以收到遗传信息的一个完全补偿物。

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