这一引人注目的新成果还要回溯到1983年的一次重大突破。当时白首的罗伯特·温伯格和同事们证明老鼠的细胞被注入两种经过改变的基因后就变成了癌细胞。

The dramatic new result traces back to a breakthrough in 1983, when the Whitehead's Robert Weinberg and colleagues showed that mouse cells would become cancerous when spiked with two altered genes.

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