The virus is not killed so It's a live virus, which is actually going to infect your intestinal system and reproduce.

病毒没有被杀死,那么它就是活性病毒,也就意味着它将会,侵入你的肠道系统并且会繁殖

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Usually viruses have certain kinds of cells they want to infect or that they're capable of infecting.

通常病毒倾向于或者有能力,感染某些种类的细胞

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These released particles can now go on and infect neighboring cells, they can travel in the bloodstream to infect cells at a distance and the virus spreads throughout a multicellular host.

这些释放出的病毒颗粒,可以继续感染邻近的细胞,它们可以随着血流去感染远距离的细胞,于是病毒可以在多细胞宿主体内全面扩散

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Now, all you have to do is introduce that virus into an organism and the virus will do what it naturally does, which is infect some cells.

剩下你要做的就是将之导入某个生物,病毒自己就会做好自己的本分,也就是去感染细胞

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That is also an advantage of using them as gene therapy vehicles because they will only infect cells that they are - that they have an affinity for or that they're prone to affect.

非常有利于将其,作为基因治疗的载体使用,因为它们只能感染那些--,它们对之具有亲和性,或者说它们倾向于去感染的细胞

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