フェイスツーフェイス : face to face

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今日の夕刊をみたら，ヴィダルサスーンが亡くなったとのこと．

学生時代，髪の毛を肩まで伸ばしていて，
就職前に切らなきゃ．．．という段階で，
どこで切るか悩んだ．

どうせ切るなら，イギリスあたりまで，いって，ヴィダルサスーンに
切ってもらいたいなぁ．．．とおもった．

結局，お金がないから，近所の美容院（女の子しか入らないようなところ）で切った．
二十歳そこそこの 日々の話．

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あんなにドア開けとったら，まる聞こえやがな．．．．

そりゃ秘書たちも びっくり するでぇ．

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今日の気になる新聞記事．

..... なんでかというと，大学院の入学試験で，この新聞ネタの翻訳問題がでたから．

Scientists isolate blood of iceman 'Otzi'
By Philip Pullella, Reuters
(from the Daily Yomiuri)

Rome- Scientists examining the remains of "Otzi," Italy's  prehistoric iceman who roamed the Alps about 5,100 years  ago, have said they isolated what arc believed to be the oldest traces of human blood ever found.

 The German and Italian scientist said they used an,　atomic force  microscope to examine tissue sections from a wound .caused by an  arrow that killed the Copper Age man, who was found frozen in a glacier, and from a laceration(裂傷） on his right hand.

"They really looked similar to modern-day blood samples," said  Prof. Albert Zink, 46, the German head of the Institute for Mummies  and the Iceman at the European Academy in Bolzano, the capital of  Italy's German-speaking Alto-Adigc region.

"So far, this is the clearest evidence ofthc oldest blood cells," he  said, adding that the new technique might now be used to examine  mummies from Egypt.

The studies were carried out in conjunction(ふつうは，接続詞の意味だなぁ．でも，ここは，"結合")  with the Center for  Smart Interfaces at Darmstadt  Technical University in Germany and  the Center for Nano Sciences in Munich.

Over the last two decades, scientists have collected data from the  stomach, bowels and teeth of the well-preserved man, who was found  protruding（つきだす） out. of a glacier by German climbers in 1991 in the Tyrolean  Alps on the Austrian-Italian border.

Otzi, whose nickname derives from the German word for the area  where he was found, had brown hair and type-O blood and was believed to be 45 when he was felled by an arrow while climbing the high  mountains about 5,300 years ago.

The nanotechnology instrument used by Zink and his team scans the surface of the tissue sections using a very fine probe, the scientists  said in a summary of their report. 

As the probe moves over the surface, sensors measure every tiny  deflection of the probe（なるほどねぇ）, line by line and point by point, building up a  3-D image.

Zink., an anthropologist(むかし，論文書くときに "anthropogenic = 人為起源 ＝ man-made でつかったなぁ．）, said the red blood cells his team found had  a classic doughnut shape seen in healthy people today.

"It is very interesting to see that the red blood cells can last for such  a long time," he said.


"This will also open up possibilities for forensic science and may  help lead to a more precise determination of the age of blood spots in  crime investigations," he added.

Earlier this year, the scientists made the first complete genome-sequencing （こういう言い回しするのか．．）on Otzi, determining that the man had a predisposition for  cardiovascular diseases and brown eyes that betrayed possible near-Eastern origins.

Otzi had lactose intolerance that was common among Neolithic  agrarian societies （これは，いぜん，このブログのどっかに書いたかと） and was also the first-known carrier of Lyme disease, a bacterial infection spread by ticks.

Examination of the wound where the arrmv entered Ot-zi's back  identified fibrin, a protein involved in the clotting of blood, a summary  of the report said.

Because fibrin is present in fresh wounds and then decays, this appears to show that the hunter died quickly rather than after a few  days as had been previously though t, it said.

Zink carried out his research with Marek ,J anko and Robed Stark,  professors of material sciences at the Center for Nano Sciences in Munich and Italian colleagues in Bolzano.

To be certain that (この言い回し便利そう） the specimens they were examining were blood  and not pollen, the scientist used a second analytical method known  as the Raman spectroscopy method(まさに専門用語)．

In that method, a laser beam illuminates a tissue sample and analysis of the spectrum of the scattered light permits the identification of  various molecules.

Zink said he and his colleagues want to carry out further analysis
on Otzi's enzymes, proteins and immune system.

"We hope we can make good progress in this area too," he said. 

The complete results will be published by Britain's Journal of the
Royal Society Interface.
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一日中，お客さんとサシで対応．

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とある経営者と語らう．

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はやく，ファイルサーバの増設準備せなアカン．

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