Hair cells, which took their name because under the microscope they look like cells with little hairs growing out of them, are an essential link in hearing.

内耳中的这种细胞是人类听觉不可或缺的一环。之所以称为“毛细胞”，是因为它们在显微镜下看上去就像是在细胞外长出了绒毛。

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Metabolism isn't about the digestion of food in your stomach; it's the name given to all of the chemical changes that occur in an organism's tissue cells.

新陈代谢不是指食物的消化能力，而是指一种在组织细胞内发生的化学变化。

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Multidrug resistance (MDR) proteins are best known for helping cancer cells expel anticancer drugs - hence their name - but they also ferry compounds in and out of normal cells.

耐多药(mdr)蛋白最为人知的是有助于癌细胞排出抗癌药物(因而得名)，但是也会输送化合物出入正常的细胞。

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A leading Nigerian blood specialist is the WHO . cancer. is alarmed at the growing numbers of cases of cancer - the name given to a class of diseases characterized by the uncontrolled growth of cells, which then form tumors.

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The field is so new that it didn't have a name until 1995, when Indiana University neuroscientist Olaf Sporns dubbed the nervous system's tangle of cells and synapses the "connectome" (pronounced connect-tome).

WSJ: Probing the Brain's Mysteries