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Tusk Tales

机译:象牙传说

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In a cluttered ground-floor laboratory at one corner of the University of Washington's Seattle campus, Sam Wasser hunches over a gray toaster-size instrument. "This is it," he says. "This is what makes it all possible." The device is a liquid-nitrogen-cooled mill that can pulverize a piece of tusk without destroying its DNA. Genetic detectives can then use that information to determine where in the vast continent of Africa the elephant lived and died. Over the next few months, Wasser and his team hope to unravel the origins of the largest load of contraband ivory ever seized and furnish international investigators with the data they need to crack the criminal networks that continue to devastate Africa's elephant herds.
机译:在华盛顿大学西雅图校区一角杂乱无章的地下实验室中,山姆·瓦瑟(Sam Wasser)弯腰抓住一台灰色烤面包机大小的仪器。他说:“就是这样。” “这使一切成为可能。”该设备是液氮冷却的磨粉机,可以粉碎一块象牙而不破坏其DNA。然后,遗传侦探可以利用这些信息来确定大象在非洲大片大陆上的生活和死亡地点。在接下来的几个月中,Wasser和他的团队希望弄清有史以来缉获的最大一批违禁象牙,并为国际调查人员提供他们需要的数据,以打击继续破坏非洲象群的犯罪网络。

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