This is a scientific breakthrough that could well lead to a medical breakthrough.

这是一项科学突破，很有可能导致医学突破。

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But a scientific breakthrough announced this week could start to reduce that number within a decade.

但是，本周公布的一项科学突破可能将在十年内使这一数字下降。

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Maybe they'll have fun someday, they tell me, but not until they've made a huge fortune or a scientific breakthrough or an artistic masterpiece.

他们告诉我，也许会有那么一天自己感到开心，但除非是发了大财、做出了科学上的突破或创作出了一件艺术杰作。

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Doctor Supachai Rerks-Ngarm, who led the study for the Thai Ministry of Public Health,called it a scientific breakthrough.

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In the late 19th century, the painting was a scientific breakthrough.

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While a scientific breakthrough in its own right, it also brings the possibility of curing genetic diseases, growing new organs and even making a carbon copy of human beings one step closer.

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After all, if any radical new technology works, he says, a savvy inventor ought to skip the media and publish the details of their discovery in a credible scientific journal to establish that he, or she, made the breakthrough first.

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