The malaria map, or the area where it is prevalent, has been reduced considerably over the past 50 years, but the disease has defied elimination in areas of intense transmission.

过去五十年来，疟疾流行地区虽已大大减少，但在高传播地区仍未能消除该疾病。

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The map of areas where guinea worm disease is endemic has shrunk to its smallest size ever.

流行麦地那龙线虫病的地域图已经缩至很小，且从未这样小过。

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The new CNV map – compiled from 270 individual genomes of people with African, Asian and European ancestry – will change the way in which scientists search for genes involved in disease.

根据来自非洲、亚洲和欧洲的270个人的基因分析资料，科学家们绘制了新的“复制数量变异”图，它将改变科学家们寻找与疾病相关的遗传因子的方式。

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A few years ago, researchers completed what they called the first large map to show genetic links with Parkinson's disease.

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And,they say, the map may teach them about human disease.

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San Diego is Pfizer's center for structure-based drug design, which uses computers to map disease-causing proteins and suggests ways to thwart them.

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And combining the result with Iceland's excellent medical records, which stretch back the best part of a century, means that the map can be used to identify disease genes as they pass from one generation to another.

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Ian Lipkin, a Columbia researcher who was an author on the Science paper, says his bee work could provide "a road map for addressing outbreaks of infectious disease" like SARS. Metagenomics could also open a window on the invisible microbes, still undiscovered, that live in the earth, air and sea.

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