It turns out that one of the places that's been very fruitful to look for proteins that differ between cell populations is on the surface of the cell.

而事实证明,寻找能鉴别细胞种类的,特定蛋白的最佳位置,是在富含蛋白的细胞膜上

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What if we could just take a few cells from that donor organ, ship them to the site, grow a new organ at the site and then implant it there?

如果我们只需,从供体器官中取一些细胞,把他们放到适当的位置培养出新的器官,就完成了移植过程,这又意味着什么

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Now I isolated these cells maybe from the head region of the embryo, the region that's going to develop into the brain, so that would be a good place to look if you wanted cells that were going to develop into the brain.

现在我可以从胚胎的头部,分离这些细胞,从就要发育成为大脑的这些部位,这是取得你需要的细胞的绝佳位置,如果你想要发育成大脑的细胞的话

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Because these molecules can span across the membrane from outside to inside, they're in just the right position to take messages that they receive from outside the cell and transmit them through the membrane into the cells internal apparatus, and that's what they do.

因为这些分子能穿过细胞膜,连通细胞内外,它们所在的位置非常适于接受信息,它们能将外界获得的信息,通过细胞膜传递给细胞器,这正是它们的功能

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