长生不老的细胞科学演讲稿.docVIP

　　Where does the end beginWell, for me, it all began with this little fellow.This adorable organism --well, I think it’s adorable --is called Tetrahymena and it’s a single-celled creature.It’s also been known as pond scum.So that’s right, my career started with pond scum. 　　结束是从何开始的对我来说，它开始于这个小家伙。这可爱的有机体，我认为它很可爱，它叫做四膜虫，是种单细胞生物。它也就是池塘浮渣。是的，我的职涯始于池塘浮渣。 　　Now, it was no surprise I became a scientist.Growing up far away from here,as a little girl I was deadly curiousabout everything alive.I used to pick up lethally poisonous stinging jellyfish and sing to them.And so starting my career,I was deadly curious about fundamental mysteriesof the most basic building blocks of life,and I was fortunate to live in a society where that curiosity was valued. 　　我变成科学家并不让人意外。我在离这里很远的地方长大，我小时候非常有好奇心，对所有的生物都好奇。我以前会捡起有致命剧毒会螫人的水母，然后对牠们唱歌。所以，开始我的职涯时，我非常好奇，想解开最根本的谜题，想知道构成生命的基础积木是什么，很幸运，我所在的社会很重视好奇心。 　　Now, for me, this little pond scum critter Tetrahymenawas a great way to study the fundamental mysteryI was most curious about:those bundles of DNA in our cells called chromosomes.And it was because I was curious about the very ends of chromosomes,known as telomeres.Now, when I started my quest,all we knew was that they helped protect the ends of chromosomes.It was important when cells divide.It was really important,but I wanted to find out what telomeres consisted of,and for that, I needed a lot of them.And it so happens that cute little Tetrahymenahas a lot of short linear chromosomes,around 20,000,so lots of telomeres.And I discovered that telomeres consisted of special segmentsof noncoding DNA right at the very ends of chromosomes. 　　对我而言，四膜虫这池塘浮渣小生物是研究我最好奇的根本谜题的好方式我们的细胞内大量的 DNA，也就是所谓的染色体。因为我对染色体的末端很好奇，也就是所谓的端粒。当我开始探索，我们只知道它们协助保护染色体的末端。细胞分裂时，这点很重要。它相当重要，但我想要了解端粒是什么组成的，为这个目的，我需要很多端粒。刚好这个可爱的小四膜虫有很多短短线性的染色体。大约两万个，所以会有很多端粒。我发现端粒包括位在染色体最末端未编码的特殊 DNA 区段。 　　But here’s a problem.Now, we all start life as a single cell.It multiples to two.Two becomes four. Four becomes eight,and on and on to form