比尔•盖茨将斥资400万美元研发通过交配减少蚊子数量的“杀手蚊”。这一大胆尝试旨在遏制疟疾等疾病的传播,因为一些致命疾病常通过受感染的蚊子叮咬传染。
Microsoft founder Bill Gates is pouring $4 million into a project to create killer mosquitoes that destroy each other through sex.
微软创始人比尔•盖茨将投资400万美元(约合2654万元人民币),用以培育能够在交配中杀死对方的“杀手蚊”。
It's a bold bid to curb malaria, a deadly disease typically transmitted through the bite of infected mosquitoes.
这是控制疟疾的大胆尝试。疟疾是一种致命疾病,通常通过受感染的蚊子叮咬传播。
Tech mogul Gates will use funds from his own charity organization – the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – to eradicate malaria "within a generation."
科技巨头盖茨将利用其慈善机构比尔和梅琳达•盖茨基金会的资金,在“一代”之内根除疟疾。
The plan is to create genetically modified male mosquitoes that mate with their female counterparts in the wild.
该计划将培育出转基因雄蚊,而这些雄蚊将会在自然条件下和雌蚊交配。
Only female mosquitoes bite, so Gates' army of gene-engineered male mosquitoes would be safe to humans.
只有雌蚊会叮咬人类,所以这一项目培育的众多转基因雄蚊不会危及人类。
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