Hepatitis is a virus that specifically affects the liver, so viruses are often specific to certain kinds of cells.

肝炎病毒就可以特异性的感染肝细胞,因病毒通常都有细胞特异性

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Usually viruses have certain kinds of cells they want to infect or that they're capable of infecting.

通常病毒倾向于或者有能力,感染某些种类的细胞

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They tested those to see if they were still active, and they were.

他们检测这些病毒是否仍有活性,结果是肯定的

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So maybe you could figure out how to use what we know about molecular biology, to engineer a new virus that's still immunogenic, but not pathogenic any longer.

也许你能指出如何使用,分子生物学的有关知识,来设计一个既能产生免疫性,但又不再有致病性的新病毒

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One is in the U.S.at the Centers for Disease Control, where there is a sample of variola, which is kept, you know, frozen on ice in a heavily guarded facility.

一个在美国的疾病控制中心,那有一支天花病毒的样本,冰冻后置于重重保护之下

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Because they've made many copies of their genome and they've made all the proteins that are necessary to - for assembly of a new virus, then this cell can make many new viruses.

因为病毒制造了大量病毒基因组的拷贝,和所有,新病毒组装所需的蛋白质,所以这个细胞就有能力制造大量新的病毒

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And they also developed a very reliable way for introducing the virus, so that when they had a defined preparation of virus, then you want to make sure that everybody gets it in their skin in the right way.

他们还发明了一种可靠的方法来引入病毒,当人们有了确定的病毒制剂之后,就要要保证这些制剂都以正确的方式,注射至皮下

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