吉本斯解释：“这就像一个不需要淀粉或者纤维素就能生产出生物燃料分子的小型工厂。”
"They are like little factories that spit out biofuel molecules without the need for starch or cellulose, " explains Gibbons.
几个世纪以来，牛津大学一直是英国知识分子的中心，它或许是欧洲众多古老大学中最负盛名的。
For centuries Oxford has been at Britain's intellectual heart, perhaps the most prestigious among Europe's many ancient universities.
一些美国人把牛津视为知识分子的乐园。
咖啡能提神，而且不像酒精那样使人迟钝，因此咖啡深受知识分子的喜爱。
Coffee became popular with scholars as it sharpened the mind rather than dulled it like alcohol.
《更完美的天堂》很好地向人们展现了变革时期欧洲的生活，至少是精英知识分子的生活。
"A More Perfect Heaven" does a good job of giving the flavour of life in Reformation-era Europe, at least among its intellectual elite.
研究人员在蓝细菌中发现了一种新叶绿素分子的证据，这种叶绿素分子能够吸收利用近红外光。
Researchers discover evidence for a new type of chlorophyll in cyanobacteria that can absorb near-infrared light
而弄清楚这些分子的结构有助于科学家们去研究那些由畸形蛋白质引起的疾病，并找出更好的药物靶点。
Figuring out such structures could help scientists learn more about diseases caused by malformed proteins and identify better drug targets.
在每一个这样的地方，你都可以发现分子的微观世界，它们会直接影响你所见物质的外观、气味、触感和声音。
In each one of these places you will find a microcosm of molecules which directly impact the look, smell, touch, and sound of everything that you see.
你将会真切地发现、真切地感受神圣的存在的感觉，因为你会在分子的舞蹈背后、在你自身之中、在你的邻居中感觉到它。
And that feeling of divine presence you will find indeed, and feel indeed, for you will sense it behind the dance of the molecules and in yourself and in your neighbors.
这项新发现表明，VSV病毒不但能杀死肿瘤细胞，而且还能终止某些分子的表达，有些肿瘤就是通过产生这种分子而躲避免疫系统的监视。
The new findings show that the virus both kills cancer cells and stops the expression of the molecules which certain types of cancer cells produce to hide from the immune system.
土卫二的个头在土星的所有卫星中排行第六，由于它拥有适宜的温度，而且存在水和简单的有机分子的可能性极大，所以是太阳系中最有希望孕育生命的地方。
The sixth-largest moon of Saturn has been called the most promising bet for life thanks to its welcoming temperature and the likely presence of water and simple organic molecules.
以镜像方式对称的分子通常会具有不同的性质，于是研究人员利用这种“手性（chirality，译注：指分子的左/右手螺旋性质）”来设计新药物。
Molecules often come in mirror images that can have different properties, and researchers take advantage of this "chirality" to design new drugs.
这大大提高了我们的分子研究效率。
This allows us to do molecular studies with much higher efficiency.
电子束可以把污染物分解成不同的分子化合物，从而帮助清洁水质和空气。
Beams of electrons can help clean water and air by breaking down pollutants into different molecular compounds.
不管是为了制造新药物还是太阳能板，我们不断地奋力设计、建造复杂的新分子。
Whether for a new drug or solar cell, we constantly strive to design and build intricate new molecules.
水分子会蒸发，凝结，形成降水，重新进入地球的水循环系统。
The water molecules will eventually evaporate, condense, and recycle back to Earth as precipitation.
内皮细胞可以释放一种保护我们血管的神奇气体分子——一氧化氮。
Endothelial cells manufacture a magical protective molecule of gas called nitric oxide, which protects our blood vessels.
DNA（脱氧核糖核酸）的分子是一种双螺旋结构，酷似一架沿纵向扭曲的梯子。
The DNA molecule is a double helix, resembling a ladder that's been twisted along its length.
钱博士又改良了染色颗粒使之对其他的分子也能产生作用，比如被称作凝血酶的血液凝固因子。
And Dr Tsien has even modified the dye to respond to other molecules, such as a blood-clotting factor called thrombin.
最后，科学家们想弄明白我们呼吸的空气分子到底经历了什么变化，借此找到健康防护的新方向。
In the end, scientists want to know exactly what's going on with the molecules that we breathe - and they hope this information will help us find new ways to protect our health.
其实这个宇宙头盔更像一个星际气泡，从这个气泡中心附近明亮的大质量恒星吹出一股疾风扫过周围的分子云。
In fact, the helmet is actually more like an interstellar bubble, blown as a fast wind from the bright, massive star near the bubble's center sweeps through a surrounding molecular cloud.
他们小组研究了绿硫细菌的叶绿素复合体，发现了其中的色素分子同样也会通过量子力学网络“连线”在一起。
His team examined a bacteriochlorophyllcomplex found in green sulphur bacteria and discovered that the pigment molecules were similarly wired together in a quantum mechanical network.
那么，在这样极端恶劣的环境下，究竟是什么让那些有机的碳基分子得以幸存并最终进化成生命？
So, under those extreme circumstances, what allowed the organic, carbon-based molecules to hang on and, ultimately, develop into life?
Cooper教授的小组通过在分子水平上研究麦卢卡蜂蜜如何抑制感染伤口的细菌来帮助解决这个问题。
Professor Cooper's group is helping to solve this problem by investigating at a molecular level the ways in which manuka honey inhibits wound-infecting bacteria.
这种新的酶可以像剪刀一样从血细胞表面去除这些分子，让它们变成O型。这样就不会导致受血者的免疫反应。
The new enzymes act like scissors to remove these molecules from the blood cells, turning them into type o, which then do not cause immune reactions in recipients.
遗传学家及艺术家亨特·科尔(Hunter Cole)使用具有生物发光性的细菌绘制出这样一幅令人惊叹的DNA分子演示图。
Geneticist and artist Hunter Cole has produced an incredible rendition of DNA molecules using bioluminescent bacteria.
遗传学家及艺术家亨特·科尔(Hunter Cole)使用具有生物发光性的细菌绘制出这样一幅令人惊叹的DNA分子演示图。
Geneticist and artist Hunter Cole has produced an incredible rendition of DNA molecules using bioluminescent bacteria.
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