A capability for asymmetric division and the production of cells that become differentiating more mature cells, those are properties of stem cells.

能够完成不对称分裂,以及产生细胞,并分化成为一些更成熟的细胞,这些是干细胞的性质

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To find stem cells that they can move from one kind of pathway to another.

去找那些能够,从一种分化途径转到另一种的干细胞

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One way of referring to this cell is in terms of its potential and the zygote obviously has the potential of becoming all of the cells of our body.

干细胞的一个特点,就是它有分化潜能,而受精卵,显然有变成我们体内任何细胞的潜能

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Potential refers to what it sounds like, 'what potential does this committed progenitor cell have?' 'What potential does this stem cell have?' Well, one way to think about is that upon this first division, this asymmetric division, this committed progenitor cell has lost some potential.

这个"潜能"和字面意思相同,定向祖细胞的潜能是什么,干细胞的潜能又是什么,一种看法就是在第一次分化时,即不对称分裂时,定向祖细胞失去了一些潜能

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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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