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And the orange plastic thing runs gel electrophoresis, a way to sort DNA strands by size.

橙色的塑料盒里装的是凝胶电泳，这是一种根据大小为dna测序的仪器。

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The full complement of DNA from each volunteer is washed over a custom-designed silicon chip about this size of small fingernail.

每个志愿者的整套DNA将在一个专门设计的指甲大小的硅片上接收检测。

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They're not whole genomes, but they're some small piece of DNA maybe the size of a protein.

不是整个基因组,而是小的DNA片段,但也许与蛋白质分子一样大

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So the DNA is going to get spread out on this gel according to size, with the small ones going farther and the large ones not going as far.

因此DNA会根据大小,在凝胶上分散开,小的片段会快一些,大的片段不那么快

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Last month Jennifer Doleac, assistant professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia, published a paper entitled The Effects of DNA Databases on Crime, which suggested that size matters: "larger DNA databases reduce crime rates".

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"The long-term goal is a handheld instrument the size of a calculator" for detecting DNA, says Branton, who hopes to have a prototype in a few years.

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The same folks who were concerned about the Galaxy Note II's behemoth size will also have identical reservations for the 5-inch DNA at first, but this particular device isn't looking to compete in the same genre.

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