Realizing the importance of this breakthrough, he lost no time in patenting it.

意识到这一突破的重要性后，他立即申请了专利。

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Now scientists have for the first time reversed the process of cell division, a breakthrough that could eventually lead to treatments for cancer and other disorders.

美国俄克拉荷马州医学研究基金会的科学家们第一次成功地将细胞分裂的过程加以逆转，这一医学技术上的突破可能会最终使人类获得治愈癌症及其它多种疾病的有效办法。

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"So this could be, certainly it was heralded at the time of the Geneva meeting, as a breakthrough in terms of opening channels more widely with the Iranians."

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The other drugs stabilize vision, which was a major breakthrough at the time.

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The Pascaline was a significant breakthrough at the time of its invention, demonstrating, as it did, how complex arithmetic could be carried out by a machine.

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