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[Paul B. Gallagher]

James Bailey wrote:

> Seelangers,
> A curious question.  How does one say "stem cell research"
> in Russian?

The obvious answer for
        "embryonic stem cells"
is
        "стволовые клетки эмбрионов"
                ("stvolovyye kletki embrionov"),
though I have also seen (in rough order of occurrence):
        "эмбриональные стволовые клетки"
                ("embrional'nyye stvolovyye kletki"),
        "зародышевые стволовые клетки"
                ("zarodyshevyye stvolovyye kletki"),
        "стволовые клетки зародышей"
                ("stvolovyye kletki zarodyshey").

You can do what you like with "research," I would think; "исследования"
("issledovaniya") is a likely candidate.

For example, <http://www.wdi.ru/print.php?art=14676582> has "абсолютный
запрет на исследования стволовых клеток, которые могут помочь многим
больным людям, является чрезмерной мерой" ("absolyutnyy zapret na
issledovaniya stvolovykh kletok, kotoryye mogut pomoch' mnogim bol'nym
lyudyam, yavlyayetsya chrezmernoy meroy"), but then a little later it
uses the singular: "А без глубокого исследования стволовых клеток и
государственного финансирования это невозможно" ("A bez glubokogo
issledovaniya stvolovykh kletok i gosudarstvennogo finansirovaniya eto
nevozmozhno.")

Яndex returns 109 hits for "исследование стволовых клеток"
("issledovaniye stvolovykh kletok"); unfortunately, there is no way to
force the plural using their search engine. The closest I could get was
!исследования "стволовые клетки," (!issledovaniya "stvolovyye kletki"),
which returned 194 hits, many of them not useful (nonadjacent uses of
the two components, with "исследования" ("issledovaniya") in one place
and "стволовые клетки" ("stvolovyye kletki") somewhere else, or
accidental collocations such as "Как показывают исследования, стволовые
клетки можно и нужно использовать..." ("Kak pokazyvayut issledovaniya,
stvolovyye kletki mozhno i nuzhno ispol'zovat'..."))

--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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