"When you alter the fault line's mechanical state," he says, "it can cause fault activity to intensify and induce earthquakes."

他说：“当你改变了断裂层本身的力学状态的以后，就有可能导致断层开始活动并加剧其引发地震的可能性。”

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It can also cause the heart or breathing to stop and can induce a coma.

它还能引起心脏或呼吸停止以及昏迷。

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One of those teams has now managed to induce stem cells without causing tumors and in a way which may not cause as much genetic disruption.

其中的一个团队正在致力于诱导一类干细胞，这类干细胞不会导致肿瘤，在某种意义上不会导致很多的基因断裂。

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The trials showed not only that the electrical disturbances induced by Posicor did not cause arrhythmia, but that several other, widely used anti-hypertension drugs, which are known not to cause arrhythmia, also induce the electrical changes in question.

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Indeed, Wolbachia's genes are so manipulative that they can convert male insects to females, kill males, induce virgin birth in females and even cause the offspring of males to die unless they carry the very same strain of Wolbachia as the father.

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Because fumonisin prevents the folic acid from being absorbed by cells, the toxin can, in effect, induce functional folic acid deficiency and thereby cause neural tube defects such as spina bifida even when the diet contains what otherwise would be sufficient amounts of folic acid.

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