大约4万6千年前，在一种使用工具、高度智能的捕食者入侵后不久，澳大利亚主要的陆地生物发生了一些巨大的变化。
Something dramatic happened to Australia's dominant land creatures—somewhere around 46,000 years ago, strikingly soon after the invasion of a tool-wielding, highly intelligent predator.
今天，生物学家利用21世纪的工具来研究细胞和DNA，开始了解这些植物是如何捕食和消化的——以及这些奇异的适应性最初是如何产生的。
Today, biologists, using 21st-century tools to study cells and DNA, are beginning to understand how these plants hunt, eat and digest—and how such bizarre adaptations arose in the first place.
这个重达750千克的流浪者将运载艺术态工具——这是个科学负载，用来帮助研究红色星球的地理，大气层以及环境条件，还有潜在的生物特征。
The 750kg rover will carry state-of-the-art instruments - a scientific payload to help study the Red Planet's geology, atmosphere and environmental conditions, as well as potential biosignatures.
秀丽隐杆线虫的特性使其成为了一种研究大量疾病及生物学过程的有效工具，可以研究的内容可包括帕金森病，早老性痴呆，以及衰老过程。
The properties of Caenorhabditis elegans make it useful for studying a wide variety of diseases and biological processes, including Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and ageing.
Vigyaan面向更高级的教学，这个LiveCD提供了一系列生物信息学、计算生态学和计算化学的工具。
For more advanced education, this LiveCD has a collection of bioinformatics, computational biology, and computational chemistry tools.
辉瑞公司上周宣布，已与罗氏和Alnylam一道，就这种形式的RNAi药物运输工具与加拿大生物技术Tekmira制药公司达成一笔交易。
Pfizer last week announced a deal with Canadian biotech Tekmira Pharmaceuticals Corp for this type of delivery vehicle for its RNAi drugs, joining Roche and Alnylam.
我们不使用任何高级的生物有机体。 因为很多测试玩家提出了很多问题质疑这样的事是否合理，这些游戏也会成为刺激学校中关于生物道德论的重要工具。
these games could be a good tool to stimulate discussions in schools on bioethical issues.
曾经不过是第一复制因子的运输工具的一种生物，现在变成了第二因子的复印机。
A living creature, once just a vehicle of the first replicator, was now the copying machinery for the next.
她目击了除人类之外不仅会使用工具而且会制造工具的一种生物。
She witnessed a creature, other than a human, in the act not just of using a tool but of making one.
使用人造生物学工具，可能DNA和蛋白质都可以丢弃了——RNA自身可以充当基因分子和催化剂两个角色。
Using the tools of synthetic biology, perhaps DNA and proteins can be discarded - RNA itself can act both as a genetic molecule and as a catalyst.
或者是否还有其他的生物“域”隐藏在某个神秘角落？ ——不为人所知，就好像古菌一样，因为生物学家误用观察工具所致，默默无闻多时。
Or are there other biological domains hiding in the shadows—missed, like the archaea were for so long, because biologists have been using the wrong tools to look?
可是，在生物化学界占支配地位的酶，恰恰是这样一种往往只能接受某一手性的精密工具。
But the enzymes that govern biochemistry are such precise tools that, often, only one-handedness is acceptable.
林业生物技术的这一领域在不断扩展，由工具的开发正进入更多的假说驱动的知识获取上。
This area of forest biotechnology continues to expand, moving from tools development into more hypothesis-driven knowledge acquisition.
只有日本建造的另一个生物圈，把生物圈建成了实际上不受科学限制的一个研究工具。
Only one other biosphere, in Japan, has been built, making biospheres a tool essentially abandoned by science.
我们废弃了墙壁与隔间，创建了具有未来风格的实验室，在这里我们综合了信息学、生物信息学以及通信工具，大大增强了研发能力。
We abolished walls and cubicles, and we created the lab of the future, where we're integrating informatics and bioinformatics and communication tools that enhance research.
这些进步反过来又带来了更精确的诊断工具和快速开发用于新微生物菌株的高效、特异、敏感检测试剂盒。
These advances have in turn led to more precise diagnostic tools and the ability to quickly develop efficient, specific and sensitive detection kits for new microbial strains.
按此种方法，进化论生物学家理查德·道金斯，采取常规方式建议到动物是工具，可被用于繁衍基因。
Along these lines, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins took the general step of suggesting that animals are the vehicles through which genes exploit to reproduce.
美国《时代》杂志近日评出年度50大发明，榜单被分为“科技产品”、“交通工具”、“健康医药用品”、“生物工程”、“绿色能源”等10个类别。
Time Magazine has released a list of this year's top 50 inventions. The breakthroughs fall into 10 categories, such as technology, transportation, health and medicine, bioengineering and green energy.
不过“生物砖”却是在试着为相同的生物“元件”提供业内已知的工具，而利用这些工具正是银杏公司的部分商业计划。
BioBricks are, nevertheless, an attempt to provide the equivalent of electronic components with known properties to the field-and using them is part of Ginkgo's business plan.
单色视觉能力在陆地生物中非常罕见，因为分辨颜色的能力是陆地生物生存的一项工具。
Monochromatic vision is very rare among land species, because color vision is a tool for survival in terrestrial habitats.
在真菌研究中，除了酶的生物技术实用工具和其它产品，包括生物防治剂、代谢产物的医药效用在抵制常见病上引起人们的极大兴趣。
In fungi, besides enzymes of biotechnological utility and other products including biocontrol agents, the metabolites of pharmaceutical utility are of great interest for counteracting common ailments.
凯斯林教授的口号是：“有了合成生物学的工具，我们不必仅仅接受大自然的赐予。”
Professor Keasling's slogan is: “With the tools of synthetic biology we don't have to just accept what nature has given us.”
Scitable—免费的自然科学图书馆和个人学习工具，目前专注于遗传学、进化论、变异学以及生物复杂性等领域。
A free science library and personal learning tool that currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms.
基因无效或过表达的生理学模型将成为珍贵的检测这些生物新发现的工具。
Physiological models with invalidated or over-expressed genes will be precious tools to check these new biological discoveries.
今天普及率很高的工具和技术在当时却并不常见，它们为研究者一窥生物的内在规律提供了前所未有的手段和途径，即便这些工具和技术在当时已经出现，其高昂的价格也一定会让人退避三舍。
Few of today's common tools and techniques, which afford researchers unprecedented glimpses into biology's inner workings, were available, and if they were, they were rarely affordable.
现在我们有足够的工具和系统生物学知识来揭示这些疾病完全的复杂性。
We now have enough tools and knowledge of systems biology to take on the total complexity of these diseases.
现在我们有足够的工具和系统生物学知识来揭示这些疾病完全的复杂性。
We now have enough tools and knowledge of systems biology to take on the total complexity of these diseases.
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