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US Researchers Discover New Breast Cancer Gene

Broadcast: Jan 21, 2003 U.S. researchers have discovered another breast cancer gene that may provide a new point of attack against the disease. The 1) molecule is common to many types of breast cancer

VOA慢速英语2009年-Health Report - Researchers Link Gene to N

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

VOA标准英语2012--Gene Therapy Halts Vision Loss in Dogs

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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Scientists in Oregon successfully fixed a disease-carrying gene in human embryos. It was the first time this has been done. This small effort could be a big step in preventing inherited, or gene-related diseases. A research team at Oregon Health Scie

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Calls for a 'Gene Revolution'

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Calls for a 'Gene Revolution' By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. There are sixty-eight million

60秒科学:Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys

Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys In a study in the journal Nature, researchers report that they have used gene therapy to cure a form of color-blindess in adult squirrel monkeys that lack a visual pigment. Karen Hopkin reports Now, heres somet

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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

2007年VOA标准英语-Researchers Use Gene Therapy to Treat Parkinson

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

VOA标准英语2008年-Australian, US Scientists Bring Extinct Gene Ba

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

VOA标准英语2012--Scientists Identify Deafness Gene in Mice

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

VOA标准英语2012--Remembering Remote Control Inventor Gene Polley

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

美国国家公共电台 NPR FDA Panel Endorses Gene Therapy For A Form Of Childhood Blindness

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

美国国家公共电台 NPR Paul Knoepfler: What Are The Unintended Consequences Of Human Gene Editing?

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

美国国家公共电台 NPR The 30-Year Quest To Tame The 'Wily' Cancer Gene

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

60秒科学:Gene for Disease Has Healthy Flip Side

Gene for Disease Has Healthy Flip Side A study in the journal Science finds that the gene for anemia-causing G6PD deficiency also protects against malaria, thereby keeping the gene active in populations. Cynthia Graber reports Sickle cell disease is

"Lean gene" raises risk of heart disease, diabetes

BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhuanet) -- A lean gene that helps people keep slim was found closely related to diabetes and heart disease, according to a study pulished in Nature Genetics journal on Sunday. The scientists from Britains Medical Research Council

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Vronique LaCapra | Washington 02 December 2009 A very small genetic difference between humans and chimpanzees may help explain why chimpanzees can't speak, but humans can The ability to communicate using complex spoken language is a uniquely human ch

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Researchers have discovered a gene linked to stuttering, a speech disorder that afflicts an estimated one million adults worldwide. Scientists believe the finding raises hope that a drug might someday be developed to treat this disabling condition. R

Scientists Produce Gene-Edited Chickens to Stop Spread of Flu Virus

Scientists Produce Gene-Edited Chickens to Stop Spread of Flu Virus British scientists are developing gene-edited chickens designed to be fully resistant to the influenza, or flu virus. Wendy Barclay is one of the leaders of the gene-editing project.