This is the third of three stories he wrote about Auguste Dupin and how he solves crimes.

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The problem it solves for the cell is how to do I make a barrier around myself to define what's in me and what's outside of me when most of what's around me and what's in me is water.

它为细胞解决的问题是,当我体外和体内大部分都是水情况下,我怎样在自己周围设置一个界线,来区分什么是体内的,什么是体外的

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The fascinating part about this layer is that it solves the problem for phospholipids about how to exist in water when half of you wants to be in oil, and that the water soluble part of the top leaflet here, of the top points up into the water, and the fatty acid chains point down.

这层膜的迷人之处在于,它解决了磷脂,如何存在于水中和油脂中的问题,水溶性的顶端部分,向上插入水中,而脂肪链则指向下

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