They hope that future synthetic cells can make useful bacteria for products like bio-fuels or vaccines, and to clean up polluted water.

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Many kinds of molecules make up your coffee There are the water molecules, the flavor molecules the milk proteins, etcetera.

许多不同种类的分子构成了你的咖啡,有水分子，气味分子，牛奶蛋白等等。

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You've got to pretty much take that chalk, and make a slurry out of it, put water, and dry it back up, put in a mold, and then you can have the chalk again, but you can't just glue it back together.

你得尽可能地收集它的碎片，把它做成粉浆，加水然后风干，放进模具，然后你就能重新得到这支粉笔，但是你不能简单地把它粘起来。

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