But skin cells and brain cells and pancreas cells aren't doing the same things.

但皮肤细胞,脑细胞和胰腺细胞,却发挥着完全不同的作用

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Well, it would be useful because if I could take cells from the skin, find stem cells in the skin and then de-differentiate them so that they were now capable of becoming liver, or brain, or things that they're not going to become in their normal site, then that could be a very powerful tool for medicine.

这是因为,如果我能取一些皮肤细胞,找一些皮肤干细胞,并将它们去分化,那它们就能分化成肝脏,大脑或其他一些,它们原本分化不出来的细胞,这可以成为一个医学利器

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If you looked at cells in my pancreas and cells in my brain, and cells in my skin they all have the same DNA.

我的胰腺细胞,脑细胞,和皮肤细胞的DNA都相同

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