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News Spotlight (4) News 1: 政治 In Canada, Quebec's pro-independence party has suffered a 1) setback. Partial results show the Party Quebecois has lost its bid for a third straight term in the 125-m

SSS 2008-12-31

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. Its the time of year to take a look backand thats just what the journal Science did as they listed their most important breakthroughs of 2008. At the v

木乃伊包含了结肠癌的线索

Mummies Contain Clues to Colon Cancer 木乃伊包含了结肠癌的线索 From VOA Learning English, this is the Health and Lifestyle report. Colon cancer is linked with obesity, lack of exercise, and a poor diet high in processed foods. However, sc

SSS 2008-05-28

This Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. I am Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. They say that older folks benefit from spending time with young people. And thats not just an excuse to stick grandma at the kids table at Thanksgiving. Now

SSS 2011-10-21

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky. Got a minute? The human genome was sequenced, and in the process of moving that forward the technology that was developed was incredible. And because of their efforts in human genome,

SSS 2008-08-07

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky, got a minute? Neandertals were our closest relatives. And now we know a lot more about them. Because researchers have for the first time sequenced a complete Neandertal genomethat of

SSS 2008-05-20

This is scientific American's 60-Second Science, I'm Karen Hopkin, this'll just take a minute. If theres anything better than a fresh, ripe, tomato, its a gigantic fresh, ripe tomato. And thanks to a couple of mutations, thats exactly what we all enj

超级富豪也将成为健康超人

If the human genome is the book of life, then Crispr technology is its Microsoft Word. The cut-and-paste technique, invented only three years ago, can be used on fledgling genomes to snip out bits of DNA and, if required, insert new stretches. 如果说

Gene Mutation Linked to Type 2 Diabetes

Scientists have identified a unique genetic mutation in about 10 percent of people with type 2 diabetes(糖尿病) studied in the United States and Europe. The discovery could help some people learn if they are at risk of developing diabetes so they

VOA慢速英语2009-Agriculture Report - Cow Genome Could Improve Mi

This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Dominette, a Hereford cow whose genetic material was used in the study Researchers from twenty-five countries have made a genetic map of a cow. Better understanding of what makes a cow a cow could

VOA标准英语2012--Genome Shows Humans More Gorilla-like than Thought

Genome Shows Humans More Gorilla-like than Thought Sixty scientists worked over five years to sequence the genome of a single female lowland gorilla, the last of the great apes to have its DNA mapped. According to lead author Aylwyn Scally, of the Tr

VOA标准英语2011--Genetic Test Pinpoints Cause of Patient

Genetic Test Pinpoints Cause of Patient Illness About a decade ago, scientists decoded the human genome, creating a gene-by-gene map of our DNA. In the decade since, genetic research has accelerated, but mostly it's stayed in the laboratory. Now, gen

VOA常速英语2014--Scientists Decode Tsetse Fly Genome 科学家解密采采蝇基因序列

Scientists Decode Tsetse Fly Genome 科学家解密采采蝇基因序列 Scientists have mapped the genetic code of the tsetse fly, the insect responsible for African sleeping sickness. They said the findings could lead to better repellents and contr

美国国家公共电台 NPR Scientists Closer To Creating A Fully Synthetic Yeast Genome

AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Scientists have taken a big step towards making synthetic life. In other words, they figured out how to create a living thing with DNA that was written in a lab. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein has the details. ROB STEIN, BYLI

环球英语 — 48：One Human Genome

Voice 1 Thank you for joining us for todays Spotlight program! Im Rebekah Schipper. Voice 2 And Im Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of Broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Have

HEALTH REPORT - Melanoma Research

HEALTH REPORT - September 4, 2002: Melanoma Research By Nancy Steinbach (Photo - U.S. National Cancer Institute) This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Scientists have discovered a genetic cha

60秒科学:Genome: Now in 3-D!

Genome: Now in 3-D! In a study in the journal Science, researchers report the mapping of the three-dimensional structure of the human genome, and the finding that the cell's nucleus is divided into two regions, one where DNA goes to get expressed. Cy

VOA标准英语2010-Songbird Genome Could Reveal Clues to Hum

New map of zebra finch DNA could provide keys to stuttering, autism and Parkinson's disease Vronique LaCapra | St. Louis, Missouri 05 April 2010 Photo: L. Brian Stauffer, University of Illinois News Bureau The zebra finch is the first songbird to hav

美科学家合成出迄今最简单生命形式

US scientists have stripped life back to its bare essentials creating a synthetic microbe with the absolute minimum genetic information needed to grow and reproduce. 美国科学家将生命的多余部分剔除，只留下最基本的要素，由此创

Scientists decode Black Death's genome

BEIJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Scientists have decoded the genome of Black Death which caused one of the worst plagues in human history. The finding was published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature. A team of German, Canadian and American sc