translation.en: Ham Smith and Clyde Hutchison, my colleagues on this, developed an exciting new method that allowed us to synthesize a 5,000-base pair virus in terms of its sequence and its biology.
translation.zh: 我的同事汉姆·史密斯和克莱德·哈钦森 发明了一个让人振奋的新方法 能让我们在短短两周时间内 合成一个拥有5000个碱基对的病毒 而且在基因序列和生物学特性上