Although the elusive "cure" may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.

尽管难以捉摸的“治愈”仍可能是一个遥远的梦想，然而正确理解癌的本质，能使人类能较好的控制癌症并减少其威胁性。

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While it is likely that getting such a computer to function inside a living cell remains some way off, the remarkably rapid progress of biological computers in controlled lab conditions means that that distant day looks to be getting closer.

ECONOMIST: A biological computer diagnoses and treats cancer

While Friendster has sputtered out in the U.S. (it's a distant runner-up to social networking groups like Facebook and MySpace, controlled by U.S. billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and Rupert Murdoch, respectively) it is doing well in Asia, where 90% of its daily site traffic originates.

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