然而事件背后的解释往往是人为操纵、武器失控或科学试验的失误，后者造成意外的瘟疫、核战或转基因工程导致了无法控制的后果。

But the explanation seems often to be man-made, misguided aggression or science gone wrong - accidentally released plague, nuclear war, or genetic modification gone awry.

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毫无疑问，目前生物技术领域内的“常规武器”是基因工程，而新型“武器”将是对整个基因组进行改造的合成生物学技术。

Now that genetic engineering has become routine in the biotech world, the new scientific attraction is synthetic biology that can change entire genomes.

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