As a footballer, if you're prone to injury it can mean the end of your career, so having your stem cells - a repair kit if you like - on hand makes sense.

作为一名足球运动员，如果你容易受伤就意味着你职业生涯的结束，所以拥有你的干细胞，如果你愿意，它就像一只随时发生作用的修复工具。

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Another common property of stem cells is to accumulate at sites of injury, where their services are obviously needed.

干细胞另一个基本的特性是会在那些需要它们发挥作用的部位——受伤的部位增殖。

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"The environment that the stem cells are injected into is very important, because when it tells the cells there is an injury, they respond in a unique way," he said.

注入干细胞的环境非常重要，因为当它通知这些细胞那里有伤，它们就会以独特的方式作出反应。

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Keirstead is working with human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injury.

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Another common property of stem cells is to accumulate at sites of injury, where their services are obviously needed.

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And Geron of Menlo Park, Calif. is performing animal studies on a variety of different cells derived from human embryonic stem cells, aiming to treat spinal cord injury, heart disease and diabetes.

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