Scientists are using a new stem cell technique allowing them to turn skin from patients into small pieces of brain.

科学家使用一种新的干细胞技术，使他们可以将病人的皮肤转变为小块的大脑。

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The scientists hope their stem cell technique will also be useful for testing drugs for individual patients with other diseases in the future.

科学家们希望，未来干细胞技术同样能够应用于为其他疾病患者研制新药。

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Established upon the embryo stem cell technique and homologous recombination, gene targeting has been widely used in the genome specific manipulation.

基因打靶技术是建立在胚胎干细胞和同源重组技术之上，可对基因组进行定点修饰的实验方法。

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Last year in April 2012, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created the first plastic solar cell (Forbes: New Technique Creates First Plastic Solar Cell) which they hope will help change requirements for manufacturing of organic printed electronics.

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To measure the refractive indices of different parts of a cell they use a technique called interferometry, which involves splitting a beam of light in two.

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Dr Keisuke Kaji, a stem cell researcher at the Medical Research Council Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Edinburgh said the technique was a "great advance" in cell reprogramming technology.

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