Edwin Wintermute and his colleagues at Harvard have engineered yeast cells to carry out two of six steps in the pathway needed to make lysergic acid, the precursor of LSD.

埃德温·温特·姆特(Edwin Wintermute)和他在哈佛的同事已经通过基因工程改造了酵母细胞，在产生麦角酸——LSD的前体——的六步反应路径中已经实现了其中的两步。

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In 2008 the human field was expanded to six professionals. Out of six matches the humans won two, Polaris won three and one was drawn.

2008年的挑战中，人类专业玩家增加到6名，却只赢得了六局比赛中的两局，而“北极星”三赢一平。

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Of the six practices of effective philanthropists described in "Do More Than Give", two stand out as being unusual.

《不只是付出》当中提到高效慈善家的六项修炼，其中两项比较不同寻常。

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In the last two years, only six people were found guilty of poaching charges out of forty-one arrested.

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In nineteen twenty-nine, six hundred fifty-nine banks with total holdings of two-hundred-million dollars went out of business.

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But the head of UNICEF, Anthony Lake,says: "Unless we all work harder, there may still be fifty-six million children out of school in two thousand fifteen."

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For both 2012 and 2013, two out of six estimates have been revised higher in the last 30 days.

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In an ordinary market like shoes or soft drinks, the case for blocking the merger of two out of six firms would be pretty weak, because we could be confident that consumers could shift to smaller competitors or new entrants should the largest incumbents do a poor job of serving their customers.

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The World Water Council, founded in 1996 to promote awareness, build political commitment and trigger action on critical water issues, notes on its website that more than one out of six people (1.1 billion) in the world already lack access to safe drinking water, and that more than two out of six people (2.6 billion) lack adequate sanitation.

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