Another example is in the nervous system, patients that have Parkinson's disease have too little of a natural ligand called dopamine.

另一个例子有关神经系统,帕金森氏病的患者,缺乏一种叫做多巴胺的天然的配体

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And he started with a similar but different observation, and that was that cows get a disease that's very similar to smallpox.

他首先观察到一种类似但不同的情况,就是牛得了一种很像天花的病

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Malaria causes a million deaths per year, and schistosomiasis, which is a parasitic disease, is unfortunately a common cause of death in the world.

疟疾每年造成一百万死亡,而血吸虫病,这是一种寄生虫病,不幸的是,它是世界上很常见的死因

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But why do you think these are the number one and two now?

你们认为这两种病为什么会名列前茅

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What was known at that time was that there was a disease in people, and there was a different disease in cows, and they looked the same some way.

当时人们所知道的就是,人得了一种病,奶牛得了另一种病,这两种病在某些方面很像

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Because of this, because cystic fibrosis is a disease that's caused by a single gene defect, there's been great interest in trying to treat cystic fibrosis with gene therapy.

就是因为如此,就因为囊胞性纤维症,是一种单基因病,人们对于用基因治疗,治愈囊胞性纤维症产生了很大的兴趣

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