STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Now we have a story about the power of science to heal. For decades scientists have been dreaming about curing diseases with gene therapy. Those dreams have not become reality, but there's growing excitement now. NPR health corre

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This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The next time you think about going without sleep, consider this: Laboratory animals that are kept awake for long periods of time ... die. Yet sleep scientist Ying-Hui Fu at the University of California

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Health Report - Gene Mapping Identifies Four Different Types of Breast Cancer 健康报道 - 基因定位识别出四种不同类型的乳腺癌 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。 A new gen

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Gene Therapy Halts Vision Loss in Dogs Researchers have stopped vision decline in dogs with an inherited disease that causes blindness. The gene therapy technique they used may someday stop vision loss in humans. Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an eye d

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People in America - Gene Kelly, 1912-1996: His Movies Made Dance Popular in America SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: I'm Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, People in America. Every week we tell about a person im

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By Carol Pearson Washington, DC 20 February 2007 watch Autism report Scientists working to solve the mysteries of autism say their research points to genetic causes. The results come from the largest study ever done on the disorder. The study looked

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By Jessica Berman Washington 21 June 2007 U.S. researchers are using gene therapy to treat the neurological condition Parkinson's disease, and they say the results so far are promising. VOA's Jessica Berman reports. Successful gene therapy to correct

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 21 May 2008 Australian and U.S. scientists have successfully inserted a gene from the extinct Tasmanian tiger into a mouse embryo. They say the result has been bone and cartilage from the extinct marsupial developing inside the

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Scientists Identify Deafness Gene in Mice Scientists have identified a gene that causes deafness in mice, and they say it could lead to a better understanding of hereditary deafness in humans and maybe new treatments in the future. Scientists had pre

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Remembering Remote Control Inventor Gene Polley Whenever someone leaves the earth having changed it, we like to make note of it. Not just the famous or notorious, but also obscure people who dreamed up something memorable or useful in our everyday li

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The dream of gene therapy took a big step forward today. A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee unanimously endorsed the first gene therapy for an inherited disorder. NPR health correspondent Rob Stein is with us now f

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GUY RAZ, HOST: OK. So Juan Enriquez is saying that this is all superpromising and exciting, and we could actually eliminate disease. And we could create... PAUL KNOEPFLER: Right. RAZ: ...You know, future humans who are immune from these horrible affl

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This next story is about a line of cancer research that could potentially help a huge number of people, people like Michael Robertson. MICHAEL ROBERTSON: I'd been having unidentified symptoms for a few months, but it was during a

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KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: The last person to leave footprints on the moon has died at age 82. Gene Cernan was big, brash and gregarious, and if he hadn't been lucky, he could have missed his chance to walk on the moon. NPR's Russell Lewis has this remembr

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By David McAlary Washington 15 November 2006 Examination of a bone fragment from our long extinct relatives, the Neanderthals, has yielded unprecedented genetic information about their mysterious relationship to modern humans. It shows that both hum

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By David McAlary Washington 02 May 2007 U.S. researchers have discovered a gene that promotes longer life in earthworms that eat much less than normal. Humans have similar genes, and VOA's David McAlary reports that, if they work the same way as in t

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LONDON Whats being billed as the future of skin care starts suspiciously like a visit to the dentist: with a mouthwash gargle. Thats to eliminate debris that may interfere with a good saliva sample, from which DNA will be extracted and serums tailore

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我们中国有杀人不见血之说,老外损起人来,也是惊天地,泣鬼神啊......呵呵,切勿学习...This post just for funny . 1.Got into the gene pool while lifeguard wasn't watching. 1.他肯定是趁救生员不备,跳进基因

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The gift of tongues. 语言的天赋。 What makes some people learn language after language? 何者吸引一些人接二连三地学习多门语言? Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners. 消逝的巴别塔:寻

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Got into the gene pool while lifeguard wasn't watching. 1. 他肯定是趁救生员不备,跳进基因池。 2. A room temperature IQ. 2. IQ值简直和室温一样高。 3. During evolution, his ancestors were in the control group. 3. 进化时,他

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