The new position was declared in a friend-of-the-court brief filed by the Department of Justice late Friday in a case involving two human genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer.

在一个案件涉及两个与乳腺癌和卵巢癌相关的人类基因的法院之友摘要中，司法部在周五晚宣布了这个新的立场。

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The story started to unfold in the late 1990s, when plant researchers and nematode biologists learned to use small RNA molecules to shut down genes.

这些研究始于90年代末，那时从事植物研究的研究人员和线虫生物学家学会了使用小RNA分子关闭基因。

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Those Palace "friends" say that now, at 60, Charles accepts that the Queen's robust health and formidable genes mean he is unlikely to be King until his late seventies.

那些皇室的“朋友们”表示，年至花甲的查尔斯已经接受了自己有一个基因超强、活力十足的健康母亲，而自己很可能要等到将近八十岁才能登上王位的事实。

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Endy, along with three synthetic-biology comrades, started a company called Codon Devices in Cambridge, Mass. in late 2004 to industrialize the construction of genes.

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Endy, along with three synthetic-biology comrades, started a company called Codon Devices in Cambridge, Massachusetts in late 2004 to industrialize the construction of genes.

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In the late 1980s Genentech scientist Napoleone Ferrara had isolated the gene for producing VEGF(genes are instructions for manufacturing proteins).

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