Today we tell about the development of what scientists are calling a synthetic cell - a cell produced by people instead of by nature.
VOA: special.2010.07.20
This shows the greatly magnified compared to the size of a cell because viruses are much, much smaller than cells.
这是一幅放大了许多倍的,细胞图片,因为病毒比细胞小得多的多
So the idea is, if you can take a cell... you can take a stem cell from your body
所以如果你能够取得一个细胞……如果你能够从你体内取得一个干细胞,
To many people,the ability of a cell to reproduce itself is the definition of life itself.
VOA: special.2010.07.20
It's a mechanism that they have evolved in order to prevent foreign genes from entering a cell and being expressed.
它们进化出这种机制来,防止异源基因进入细胞并表达
Telomeres are necessary for a cell to divide.
VOA: special.2009.10.07
Electrolysis of magnesium chloride in a cell where the one electrode we would make magnesium.
在电池内电解氯化镁,我们能在其中一个电极上得到镁。
"We have one project called bee-spotters, which is now restricted to Illinois, where we ask people to go out with a digital camera,even a cell phone, and photograph either bumblebees or honeybees."
VOA: special.2011.05.24
Essentially, what they are is it's a protein that spans the membrane of a cell.
本质上来说,它是一个横跨细胞膜的蛋白质。
The CellScope is a cell phone microscope.
VOA: special.2009.08.03
The answer is, "It's not like anything," where that doesn't mean there's something that it's like to be a cell phone, but different from being anything else.
答案就是,什么感觉都不像“,那不是说,作为手机真的有一种感觉,只是和作为其他东西的感觉。
"We are here today to announce the first synthetic cell -- a cell made by starting with the digital code in the computer, building the chromosome from four bottles of chemicals, assembling that chromosome in yeast, transplanting it into a recipient bacterial cell and transforming that cell into a new bacterial species."
VOA: special.2010.07.20
I barely know how to use a cell phone let alone a computer, you know,
我勉强会用手机,更不要说电脑了,你知道,
Jennings says talking on the phone and reaching for a cell phone "is akin to having four beers and driving."
VOA: standard.2010.06.24
They might be 100 nanometers or so in diameter, whereas, a cell is ten microns or so in diameter.
直径只有一百纳米左右,而一个细胞的直径是十微米左右
"Reaching for a cell phone when it's going off, you're nine times more likely to get into an accident than normally driving."
VOA: standard.2010.06.24
So, this is a cell that's infected with a microorganism, it's infected with a virus, let's say it's infected with influenza virus.
这是一个感染了微生物的细胞,它感染了一种病毒,就说是感染了流感病毒吧
Kevin Schumann,19, was one of the drivers. First,he drove without a cell phone, and was able to easily navigate around the cones and dolls.
VOA: standard.2010.06.24
For example, a gene that makes a cell cancerous, I'd like to stop it from being expressed.
举例来说,如果某段基因导致细胞癌变,我就希望阻止它表达
But then he was given a cell phone and asked to start texting.
VOA: standard.2010.06.24
But, from this moment forth, cell phone goes off, you're out. You leave the room, OK? And, Lord help you if a cell phone goes off during an exam because those things have text messaging capabilities.
但是,从这一刻开始,手机响的话,你们就出去,你们就离开教室,好吗,上帝保佑你的手机不要在考试期间响起,因为它们有发短信的功能。
Can a cell phone or computer bring down a regime?
VOA: standard.2010.03.09
Formaldehyde cross-links proteins, so, if you treated this virus with Formaldehyde, even it was able to enter a cell, it couldn't break down anymore.
甲醛使蛋白质发生交联反应,因此,如果你对病毒使用了甲醛,即使它可以侵入细胞,它也不能够再进行分解
Apple fans and enthusiasts were eager to finally purchase an iPad,a tablet computer with a touch-screen that Apple claims will "bridge the gap" between a cell phone and a laptop computer.
VOA: standard.2010.04.03
Well, it turns out that we could not identify, at least at that point, a cell culture that would serve as a host for vaccinia.
然而我们还不能断定,至少这个时候无法断定,这些被感染的细胞就是牛痘病毒的宿主
"The three laureates have accomplished what many scientists thought impossible, namely to determine the three- dimensional structure of the molecular machine that makes all the proteins in a cell, the so-called ribosome,"
VOA: standard.2009.10.07
There are multiple mechanisms that a cell can use to decide which genes it is expressing at any one time and which ones are not expressed.
在某一时刻,决定细胞中哪些基因表达,哪些基因不表达的机理十分复杂
But first,Mister Venter said, they had to de-activate a gene in the receiving cell that would have killed the synthetic genome.
VOA: special.2010.07.20
In general, inside of a cell molecules move by a process called diffusion.
总的来说,细胞内的分子通过扩散作用来移动
What if this is a gene that's causing a cell to be cancerous?
但假如是个能导致细胞癌变的基因呢
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