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Cancer affects all of us -- especially the ones that come back over and over again,
癌癥是我們每個(gè)人的大敵--尤其是那些不斷復(fù)發(fā)的，
the highly invasive and drug-resistant ones, the ones that defy medical treatment,
容易擴(kuò)散的，具有抗藥性的癌癥，藥物治療對(duì)它們無(wú)效，
even when we throw our best drugs at them.
即使我們用最好的藥也無(wú)濟(jì)于事。
Engineering at the molecular level, working at the smallest of scales,
在分子級(jí)別進(jìn)行（基因）工程改造，從最小結(jié)構(gòu)層面著手，
can provide exciting new ways to fight the most aggressive forms of cancer.
（我們就）能找到意想不到的新辦法同最致命的癌癥進(jìn)行斗爭(zhēng)。
Cancer is a very clever disease. There are some forms of cancer, which, fortunately,
癌癥是一種很狡猾的疾病。幸運(yùn)的是，對(duì)于一些癌癥，
we've learned how to address relatively well with known and established drugs and surgery.
我們可以通過(guò)一些驗(yàn)證過(guò)的藥物和手術(shù)進(jìn)行治療，可以得到相對(duì)較好的結(jié)果。
But there are some forms of cancer that don't respond to these approaches,
但有幾種癌癥這些方法對(duì)它們都無(wú)效，
and the tumor survives or comes back, even after an onslaught of drugs.
即使在藥物的猛烈攻擊下，腫瘤依然能夠存活或者復(fù)發(fā)。
We can think of these very aggressive forms of cancer as kind of supervillains in a comic book.
我們可以將這幾種致命的癌癥想象成漫畫書里面的大反派。
They're clever, they're adaptable, and they're very good at staying alive.
他們狡猾，適應(yīng)性強(qiáng)，生存能力一流。
And, like most supervillains these days, their superpowers come from a genetic mutation.
而且，跟現(xiàn)在（漫畫書里）大多數(shù)大反派一樣，他們的超能力來(lái)自基因突變。
The genes that are modified inside these tumor cells can enable and encode for new and unimagined modes of survival,
這些腫瘤細(xì)胞的基因不斷變化，能找到新的、意想不到的生存方式，
allowing the cancer cell to live through even our best chemotherapy treatments.
可以讓癌細(xì)胞抵抗住我們最強(qiáng)大的化學(xué)治療。
