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I had heard that Yvonne' s work doesn' t stop at the borders of the UK, so I went to see her in her state of the art laboratory to find out how world changing her studies could prove to be. How much of a problem is malaria in this day and age around the world? It' s still a massive problem, the third biggest killer in the world after heart disease and cancer. And we' re talking about 1. 3 million deaths every year. Yvonne now believes that her project can reduce the impact of malaria worldwide. So the work you' re doing here right now, and we' re crushing up these little mosquitoes, which I' ve got to say is quite satisfying, isn' t it? Well, absolutely. I' ve bitten by them quite a lot. But the work you' re doing here could change the lives of millions of people around the world. That' s really what we' re aiming at, actually the ultimate product of this huge global initiative is actually a handheld DNA, what we call a DNA barcoder. People that were actually doing the spraying in the fields would be able to look there and see if there were any mosquito larvae, just be able to squash that mosquito onto a plate and they would get an ID. |
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wǒ tīng shuō yī wàng de gōng zuò bù jǐn shì zhēn duì yīng guó, suǒ yǐ wǒ qù shí yàn shì qù jiàn tā, kàn kàn tā de yán jiū, dào dǐ néng rú hé gǎi biàn shì jiè. dāng qián shì jiè shang de nüè jí wèn tí yǒu duō yán zhòng? hái shì gè hěn dà de wèn tí, shì zài xīn zāng bìng hé ái zhèng, zhī hòu de dì sān dà shā shǒu měi nián dà gài huì yǒu yī bǎi sān shí wàn rén yīn cǐ sǐ wáng yī wàng xiāng xìn tā yán jiū néng zài quán shì jiè fàn wéi nèi jiǎn xiǎo nüè jí de yǐng xiǎng wǒ men xiàn zài yào zuò de shì bǎ wén zi nòng suì, wǒ dé shuō, zhè gǎn jué bù cuò. nà dāng rán wǒ kě méi shǎo āi yǎo nǐ de gōng zuò kě néng huì gǎi biàn quán shì jiè jǐ bǎi wàn rén de shēng huó zhè què shí shì wǒ men de mù dì, zhè gè xiàng mù dì zuì zhōng mù dì shì néng zài quán qiú, yìng yòng yī zhǒng shǒu chí DNA yí qì, wǒ men guǎn tā jiào DNA tiáo mǎ yí. zài yě wài jìn xíng pēn sǎ zuò yè de rén, kě yǐ kàn kàn nà lǐ yǒu méi yǒu wén zi de yòu chóng, zhǐ yào bǎ wén zi yā suì fàng dào tuō piàn shàng jiù néng zhī dào nà shi shén me wén zi. |