When Mukherjee talks about knowing the "causes" of cancer, he means genes and cellular mechanisms gone wrong, not the environmental agents that might induce changes in those genes.
慕克吉在谈到对癌症“病因”的理解时指的是基因和细胞机理出现紊乱而不是那些引发基因改变的环境因素。
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Previous research has shown that many cells, including cancer cells, communicate directly with one another by emitting tiny bubbles of cellular material called microvesicles.
先前的研究发现许多细胞，包括肿瘤细胞间的交流是通过直接释放包含有物质的称为微泡的小泡来实现的。
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Conversely, if telomerase activity is high, telomere length is maintained, and cellular senescence is delayed. This is the case in cancer cells, which can be considered to have eternal life.