【Day 57】外刊14

2020-10-13 08:53:4400:59 43

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in Chemistry Awarded to 2 Scientists for Work on Genome Editing
两名科学家因基因编辑获得诺贝尔化学奖

What had begun as an ancient system of antiviral defense quickly became one of the most powerful and precise genome-editing tools available to science. In less than a decade, Crispr has become commonplace in laboratories around the world.“Other technologies sometimes take a couple of decades before they come into regular practice,” Dr. Collins said. Crispr’s rapid rise to near ubiquity, he added, “is remarkable.”

词汇突破：
antiviral：抗病毒
precise: 精确的
ubiquity 似乎无所不在的，十分普遍的
remarkable 令人惊讶的

最初的古老病毒防御系统迅速成为了科学界可用的最强大、最精确的基因组编辑工具之一。在不到十年的时间里，Crispr（短回文重复序列技术）成为了世界各地实验室中的常见技术。“其他技术有时要过几十年才能被常规应用。” 柯林博士说。他补充道，Crispr迅速崛起成为通用技术，“非常了不得。”