Cells are the most basic units of living matter.

细胞是生命物质最基本的单位。

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Non-living matter can be brought to life with no need for lightning, a vital essence or a god.

不需要闪电，活力的精华，或者是神，就可以让非生命物质活过来。

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In fact, I don't really think of cancer as a disease as much as an alternative form of living matter.

事实上，我更加认为癌症是生活的一种代替方式，而不是一种疾病。

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The researchers demonstrated how information in pieces of DNA is translated into the thousands of proteins contained in living matter.

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And there will be a little bit of history in there, but this is mostly modern chemistry and represents the basic properties of matter, and it's basic properties of all matter, including living matter, which was what really interested me, that connection between chemistry and biology.

它们都有一些历史，但都是最现代的化学,代表了物质的最基本的性质，而且是所有物质的最基本性质，包括生物，这个让我很感兴趣，因为它连接着化学和生物学。

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We die while it's still the case that living another ten years or twenty years or for that matter five hundred years-- would still or could still have been good for us.

我们死的时候,接下来的十年，二十年,或者五百年-,对我们可能是美好的。

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Biologic drugs are protein-based and derived from living matter or manufactured in living cells using recombinant DNA biotechnologies.

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This is because an area may have many rare species, but not enough living matter to, say, prevent a coastline from being eroded.

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But I believe in a living constitution that is not focused on keeping government off our backs but ensures that all our citizens have a decent standard of living no matter who they are or what they do.

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