seminal study

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"That was a seminal study, because it showed that the biology of the human immune system was impacting how HIV was evolving because of these immune genes, " said Korber.
科伯说：“这是一个开创性研究，因为该研究显示在人类免疫系统生物学影响下因为这些免疫基因HIV是如何进化的。
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The new study in Psychological Science was designed to replicate visual tests on motion perception from seminal experiments in the 1970s, with the addition of variable external noise.
在心理科学上设计了一项项新的实验：重复了1970年关于运动知觉的视觉实验的基础上，增加了可变的外界噪音。
On one hand this study, inspired by the highly publicised murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964, is mentioned in every textbook and often dubbed 'seminal'.
一方面，这项研究受到了1964年广为流传的Kitty Genovese谋杀案的启发，几乎出现在所有的教科书上，并被认为是十分重要和有学术影响力的。

To reduce medical errors, which kill between 40, 000 and 98, 000 Americans a year, according to a seminal study by Harvard doctor Lucian Leape, published in 1999.
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In one seminal study in 2005, the University of California at Irvine informatics professor Gloria Mark found that information workers on average switch tasks every three minutes.
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Stricker's San Francisco clinic also advertises its ability to treat obesity, infertility, erectile dysfunction and AIDS. In 1990 Stricker was forced out of UC, San Francisco after the school claimed he falsified data in what had been a seminal AIDS study.
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