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The final thing is, again just to reiterate that there's this practical part,
最后，只是再一次重申，這個研究的實際應用方面，
and so we've made these anti-quorum sensing molecules that are being developed as new kinds of therapeutics.
是我們已經制造出了這些“反聚量感應分子”，它們正作為新一代的療法被開發研究中。
But then, to finish with a plug for all the good and miraculous bacteria that live on the Earth,
為了鼓勵地球上生存的所有對人有益的細菌，
we've also made pro-quorum sensing molecules.
我們也制造了“強化聚量感應分子”。
So, we've targeted those systems to make the molecules work better.
因此，我們已經鎖定了這些系統，讓這些分子運作得更好。
Remember you have these 10 times or more bacterial cells in you or on you, keeping you healthy.
請記得在你體內體表，有超過你自身細胞十倍的細菌，它們使你保持健康。
What we're also trying to do is to beef up the conversation of the bacteria that live as mutualists with you,
我們也努力加強你和你的共生的細菌之間交流，
in the hopes of making you more healthy, making those conversations better,
讓你更健康，讓這種互動更有益。
so bacteria can do things that we want them to do better than they would be on their own.
讓細菌只做我們希望它們做的事情，防止細菌做我們不希望它們做的事情。
Finally, I wanted to show you this is my gang at Princeton, New Jersey.
最后，我希望讓你們看看我在新澤西普林斯頓大學實驗室的成員。
Everything I told you about was discovered by someone in that picture.
我今天所告訴你們的每一個發現，都是由照片中的某人所完成的。
I hope when you learn things, like about how the natural world works
我希望當你們學到東西的同時，比如自然世界是怎樣運作的，
I just want to say that whenever you read something in the newspaper
我只是想說，任何時候，當你們在報紙上看到某事，
or you get to hear some talk about something ridiculous in the natural world it was done by a child.
或是你們聽到某些有關自然的，好玩事情的演講，都是由年輕人完成的。
Science is done by that demographic. All of those people are between 20 and 30 years old,
科學是由這種年齡層的人所造就的。這些二、三十歲的年輕人，
and they are the engine that drives scientific discovery in this country.
他們是推動這個國家科學發現的引擎。
It's a really lucky demographic to work with.
我真的是非常幸運能與這群年輕人一起共事。
I keep getting older and older and they're always the same age, and it's just a crazy delightful job.
我自己在不斷地變老，但他們卻是始終不變，這真是一個美好得不能再好的工作。
I want to thank you for inviting me here. It's a big treat for me to get to come to this conference. Thanks.
我要謝謝你們的邀請。非常榮幸能參加這個大會。謝謝。
