华盛顿-你可能不想吃基因改造的食品，但很多时候你却躲不掉。
WASHINGTON - you may not want to eat genetically engineered foods. Chances are, you are eating them anyway.
Pakrasi说，这项工作证明了未经基因改造的蓝杆菌的能力。
The work shows what an unmodified cyanobacterium is capable of, says Pakrasi.
尽管实验结果来自于一组经过基因改造的老鼠，但其结果引人注目。
And even if the results are applicable only to one strain of genetically modified mice, it's hard to not at least notice what happened to them.
经过基因改造的小鼠以80%的正确识别率显示了它们的新的视觉功能。
The genetically altered mice demonstrated their new visual ability by choosing the correct panel in 80 percent of the trials.
研究人员试图通过基因改造的方式降低植物中木质素的含量来绕过这一问题。
Researchers have previously tried to get around the problem by genetically decreasing the lignin content in plants.
研究阶段正处于基础和临床之间，使用经过基因改造的小鼠模型研究治疗效果。
The research is done in the interface between basic and clinical research, using gene-modified mice as experimental models for human diseases.
他们称可以用这种方法来培育基因改造的猪，这类猪的器官能够移植到人类身上。
They say the methods could be used to make genetically-changed pigs whose organs could be transplanted into humans.
103是第一个自然界中发现的(非基因改造的)能够直接从纤维素产生丁醇的细菌。
TU-103 is the first bacterial strain found in nature (not genetically engineered) to produce butanol directly from cellulose.
复制技术和基因改造的科技让我们有可能创造出理想的子孙，但我们技术成熟了吗？
The technology of cloning and gene manipulation makes the construction of idealized offspring possible, but do we have the maturity for it?
糖多孢红霉菌的原生质体转化和染色体同源整合，是红霉素生物合成基因改造的重要途径。
Protoplast transformation and homologous chromosomal integration of s erythraea was an important path in changing gene involved in erythromycin biosynthesis.
一个经过基因改造的青蛙卵被放入电压钳系统，然后一种有气味的物质被溶入有青蛙卵的缓冲液中。
An engineered egg is placed in a voltage clamp system and an odorant is dissolved in the buffer solution in which the egg is floating.
最近科学家使用基因改造的小鼠进行了一项研究，这些小鼠对糖的味觉缺失，无法感受到食物中的甜味。
In one recent experiment, scientists used genetically engineered mice that were missing sugar receptors and therefore unable to detect sweetness in food.
有些是养鱼场基因改造的鱼，其余的则是嘴被钩住或是被巨大的拖网渔船网住，拖网渔船所过之处一路捕杀。
Some are genetically engineered on fish farms, while the rest are hooked by the mouth or netted by huge trawlers that catch and kill everything in their path.
美国食品药品监督管理局本月将会召开为期三天的会议来讨论是否允许这种基因改造的鱼类供美国消费者食用。
The US Food and Drug Administration will hold a three-day meeting this month to discuss whether to approve the altered fish for American consumers to eat
在生物克隆、遗传合成以及基因改造的生物学时代，李山痴迷于所有有生命的造物间相似性大于差异性的观点。
In the age of biological clones, genetic synthesis and transgenic biology, Li Shan became fascinated with the idea that all living creatures have more similarities than differences.
这类顾忌要成为一个问题，其前提必须是：经基因改造的鱼其生存和繁殖能力要比那些经过数百万年的自然选择挑选出来鱼更高。
For that to be a problem, it would have to be the case that the modified fish were better at surviving and reproducing than those honed by millions of years of natural selection.
通过跟踪研究经过基因改造的蝾螈的单个细胞，对于它们失去的肢体再生这种貌似神奇的能力，研究人员找到了一个出乎意料的解释。
By tracking individual cells in genetically modified salamanders, researchers have found an unexpected explanation for their seemingly magical ability to regrow lost limbs.
他说，加拿大的研究人员早就预期会有抗药基因的累积，但由于除草剂的种类远多过抗药基因，因此控制这些植物的生长，不会比单一基因改造的品种更困难。
Canadian researchers expected resistance genes to accumulate, he says, and because there are more herbicides than resistance genes, the plants are just as easy to control as singly modified varieties.
科学家对棉花进行了基因改造，以增强其对害虫的抵抗力。
Scientists have made genetic modifications to cotton to increase its resistance to insect pests.
发表在《自然》杂志上的一项长达10年的研究表明：仅仅经过基因改造，并不会使植物更有可能成为入侵物种。
Simply because they are genetically engineered does not make it any more likely for plants to become an invasive according to a decade-long study published in the journal Nature.
他们是通过将老鼠基因改造使其更易于传递基因突变达到这个效果的。
They did this by genetically modifying mice to make them prone to passing on genetic mutations.
过去，基因改造只是学徒或者佣工的活。
Hitherto, genetic modification has been the work of apprentices and journeymen.
育种或基因改造可以增加动植物吸收氮的效率。
Breeding or genetic modification could increase the efficiency with which animals and plants take up nitrogen.
但是，就像任何技术一样，基因改造也用积极的一面。
Like any technology, however, genetic modification could also be put to positive use.
虽然没有严格证据显示它是有害的，但是讨论基因改造食品的无知之谈，表明一项新技术需要多少的普遍认同。
No serious evidence yet suggests it is a danger-but the nonsense over genetically modified foods shows how much a new technology needs popular approval.
基因改造过的植株可以抵抗除草剂，但欧洲已经禁止这样做。
It helps to have plants that are genetically engineered to resist weedkillers, but Europe has banned those.
基因改造过的植株可以抵抗除草剂，但欧洲已经禁止这样做。
It helps to have plants that are genetically engineered to resist weedkillers, but Europe has banned those.
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