17. Bones Get Mended With High Tech Glass-of-milk

a bone	кістка	recently	нещодавно
to mend	полагодити	to order	призначати
to fix	виправити	to form	формувати
broken	поламаний	to work out	розробляти
to rush	ринути	NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance)	ЯМР (Ядерний Магнітний Резонанс)
bioglass	біоскло	to simulate	імітувати
to amaze	дивувати

Scientists at the new Nuclear-Magnetic Resonance unit at the University of Warwick have discovered how a high-tech glass of milk is helping bones mend. Low temperature Bioglass is used to help fix broken bones, but until now no one has been able to understand the process. Using a strong magnetic field to “see” into the bones researchers saw calcium rush into the bioglass in the first hour of implantation. Physicist Professor Mark Smith explains: “Bioglass is used to help mend broken bones. Recently researchers working at Imperial College discovered a new kind of bioglass which seemed to work better, but they could not work out all the details why. We looked at it through our NMR machine and were amazed by what we saw. Fluid simulating patient’s bodies rushed calcium out of the bioglass and then into the new bones. It seems perhaps a glass-of-milk-a-day really is what the doctor ordered.” The new Bioglass uses chemicals rather than heat to form the replacement bones.

Speech patterns

rather	швидше, досить, до деякої міри
rather … than	скоріше … ніж
Chemical formulas can be used rather than drawings of the atoms and molecules.	Хімічні формули, можливо, використовують більше, ніж креслення атомів та молекул.

It seemed to me she was far too romantic.	Мені здалося, що вона надто романтична.
He seems to be a teacher.	Здається, він вчитель.

1. Say whether these statements are true or false.

1. To fix broken bones special bioglass is used.

2. Bones are cured thanks to calcium which is taken from the bioglass.

3. Scientists examined the process with X-ray machine.

2. Match the following words from the text with their antonyms:

a) to discover	1) nonexistent
b) to mend	2) to have no idea of
c) low	3) to break
d) to understand	4) to complicate
e) strong	5) to conceal
f) to explain	6) high
g) real	7) weak

3. Guess what words from the text correspond to the following definitions:

1) an institution of higher education having authority to award bachelors' and higher degrees, usually having research facilities; 2) to repair (something broken or unserviceable); 3) a substance obtained by a chemical process or used for producing a chemical effect; 4) technology involving the use of advanced devices; 5) hard largely calcareous tissue forming most of the skeleton of a vertebrate animal; 6) one under medical care.