In an age of home gene-testing kits, powered by falls in the cost of sequencing, 47 genomes may not sound that impressive. 在一个家庭基因检测工具盛行的时代，由于测序成本的下降，47个基因组听起来可能并不那么令人印...
The human genome project, which published its results 20 years ago last month, was a landmark in biology. 人类基因组计划于上个月公布了20年前的成果， 这是生物学上的一个里程碑。 It was also somewhat misleadingly named. 它...
The second reason is technological. 第二个原因是技术上的。 Marine biologists find about 2,000 new species a year, a rate hardly changed since Darwins day. 海洋生物学家每年可以发现大约2000个新物种，这一速度自达尔文时...
Dr Fril started with barley, which has the longest spikes of the three, and therefore the most potential for fine tuning. 弗里尔博士从大麦开始实验，大麦在三种植物中具有最长的穗，因此最有微调的潜力。 (He also like...
Gene-editing has created a generation of musical crops基因编辑创造了一代音乐作物 It has been known for some time that plants can talk to one another. 人们知道植物可以相互交谈已经有段时间了。 Many communicate chemicall...
For their study, Karine Spiegel at the French National Institute of Health在她们的研究中，法国国家健康与医学研究所的凯琳史匹格and Medical Research and Eve Van Cauter at the University of Chicago speculated that和芝加哥大学...
Give it a rest 休息一下吧 To ensure vaccines work properly, get a good nights sleep. 为了确保疫苗正常工作，晚上睡个好觉。 Vaccines get all the glory, but it is really the immune system that does the heavy lifting. 获得了所有...
Previous work has shown that, in general relativity, the compression of matter past a certain point以前的结果已经表明，在广义相对论中，物质压缩超过某一点can lead to the formation of a zone containing vacuum energy, the back...
Two of the universe's most enigmatic phenomena may be intimately linked宇宙中最神秘的两种现象可能有联系 Black holesobjects so dense that nothing can escape their pull黑洞密度大到任何物体都无法逃脱它们的引力are amon...
One day in March 2021 Dr.Wild, Dr.Aplin and their collaborators deployed five RFID-enabled dispensers loaded with wool rather than food. 2021年3月的一天，威尔德博士、阿普林博士和协作人员部署了五台配有射频识别技术的取...
The concentration of bicarbonate varies little from tissue to tissue with one notable exception. 碳酸氢盐的浓度在不同组织中变化不大，但有一个明显的例外。 In the epididymis, the tube in which mature sperm are stored, it is...
A step towards a pill for men? 向男性避孕药更进一步？ How often does locker-room talk involve nuanced discussion of the various types of contraceptives available, and the merits and difficulties associated with them all? 在更衣室中细致...
Time to Conceive looked at 750 women aged between 30 and 44 who were living with a male partner not known to be infertile, had no diagnosis of infertility of their own, and had recently started trying to become pregnant. 怀孕时间研究调查了75...
More evidence that hormone testing for women's fertility does not work. 更多证据表明，检测女性生育能力的荷尔蒙测试并不奏效。 Women seeking to defer motherhood are often encouraged to check their fertility. 人们通常会鼓励...
Looking at things this way deals with two things that have always bugged the old model. 以这种模型看待问题解决了两个旧模型无法解释的问题。 One is sensitivity to timescale. 一是时间上的敏感性。 The other is computati...
