Basically, you're introducing this gene into cells that when you give the right inactive drug that will cause the cell to make chemicals that kill it.

概括来说,当你把这个自杀基因导入,含有特定未激活药物的细胞时,二者作用就使细胞生成了,可以杀死自己的化合物

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and if you design a drug that blocks estrogen interaction you stop growth.

如果能够设计一种药物阻断雌激素的作用,就能阻止细胞生长

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The other pathway that I think is very promising is now to use stem cell generated cells in culture dishes to use them for high throughput drug screening now we can test thousands of different drugs without killing so many animals.

第二个目标的前景相当广阔,我们可以用干细胞,在培养皿中大量繁殖各种细胞,用于大剂量的药物试验,让你无需屠戮动物,就能进行各种药物试验。

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It's a gene that allows you to deliver a drug that's not active but the gene causes that active - that inactive drug to be converted into an active form that kills the cell.

这一方法利用该基因激活,另一种已经导入细胞的非活性药物,来杀死肿瘤细胞

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