Well, one way would be to isolate individual cells and culture them outside the body and see what they become.

一个方法就是分离单独的细胞,然后进行体外培养看看结果

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One of the main things that we use cell culture or maintenance of cells outside the body for is to make more copies of cells.

我们培养细胞,或者体外维持细胞的重要步骤,就是复制更多的细胞

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This property of cells in culture is called anchorage dependence - that the cell needs to be anchored to a surface in order to function properly.

体外培养细胞的这种特性,称为贴壁依赖性--,意思是细胞必须固定在,某个表面上才能正常生长

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In particular, cell culture technology or how you culture cells outside the body.

特别是,细胞培养技术,换句话说,就是如何在体外培养细胞

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We'll talk a little bit about the principles of cellular physiology and then I'll move next time to talking about how you culture cells outside of the body and what that's useful for.

这节课我们讲一些,细胞生理学的一些原理,下节课具体讲,体外培养细胞的方法,及其用途

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