If the innards of each pig are Petri dishes, then possible pandemic flu viruses have been stewing on hog farms for decades.

如果每头猪的内脏都是培养皿，那么可能的大流行性流感病毒已经在养猪场熬了几十年了。

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If the innards of each pig are Petri dishes where genes are jumbled and dashed together, then possible pandemic flu viruses have been stewing on hog farms for decades.

如果说每头猪的内脏都是培养皿，供基因在里面混乱地搅和在一起，那么，大流行的流感病毒就可能已经在养猪农场熬制了几十年了。

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Several research teams have isolated bacteria from tobacco that they could grow out in petri dishes.

好多研究团队从烟草中取得能在培养器皿盘成长的细菌。

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Caves were thought to be essentially devoid of life until six years ago, when the renowned University of Colorado microbiologist Norman Pace, also an avid caver, discovered a way to identify extremophile microorganisms by cloning and sequencing unique sections of their DNA. Prior to Pace's work biologists had fruitlessly tried to cultivate these microorganisms with traditional lab techniques using nutrient-rich petri dishes.

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Two international forums over the weekend, one in Munich and the other in New York, served as petri dishes for festering anti-Americanism which tends to flourishes most when foreign governments sense Washington can be talked out of an announced policy direction.

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Her students drill core samples and swab the walls with Q-Tips, daubing them onto petri dishes.

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