The dodo's closest living relative is the Nicobar pigeon, said Beth Shapiro, a scientific advisor with the bioscience company.

该生物科学公司的科学顾问贝丝·夏皮罗说，渡渡鸟现存的近亲是尼科巴鸠。

A biosciences and genetics company has raised $15 million to do this, and it says it hopes to have calves walking around in four to six years.

一家研究生物科学和遗传学的公司已经就该项目集资1500万美元，该公司表示，预计在四到六年内，人们就能看到这种杂交动物的幼兽到处行走了。

And if it so happened, that a couple of maverick bioscience companies were tinkering with your patents and your technologies, you might overlook that as a distraction, an irrelevance.

你应该会注意到，有一些特立独行的半导体公司尝试对你的专利和技术做出一些细微的改变，你很可能并不会把这件事放在心上。