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Bacteriophages are the most numerous replicating entity on the planet.
噬菌体是地球上数量最多的复制实体。
There are more phages than there are stars in the universe.
噬菌体的数量比宇宙中的星星还要多。
Every drop of sea water has 10 million bacteriophages in it.
每一滴海水中都有1000万个噬菌体。
Bacteriophages are a virus that's basically pathogens of a pathogen.
噬菌体是一种病毒，它是病原体的病原体。
We're at a point in time now where the antibiotics that we've used for decades have increasingly become less effective at treating infections.
我们现在正处在一个时间点上，我们使用了几十年的抗生素，但它在治疗感染方面的效果越来越差。
If there is a tool that we could use that could help someone, then of course we should try and pursue it.
如果有一种我们可以使用的工具可以帮助某个人，那么我们当然应该尝试和追求它。
You guys have a merry Christmas.
祝福每个人圣诞节快乐。
Cystic fibrosis is what you would refer to as an invisible disease because on the outside I look completely fine, but that doesn't mean that's how it is on the inside.
囊性纤维化就是你所说的隐形疾病，因为在外表上看起来完全没有问题，但这并不意味着里面也没有问题。
Cystic fibrosis basically covers the entire inside of my body in mucous.
囊性纤维化基本上将我的整个身体内部覆盖在粘液中。
That makes it where it messes up the lungs, the pancreas, the liver, pretty much everything.
这使得它对肺部、胰腺、肝脏，几乎所有的器官都有坏处。
Yeah, I feel so tired I can't function.
是的，我觉得很累，无法工作。
I'm like ugh.
我就老想叹气。
Are you like, um, are you feeling achy? Or is it just this overall...
你感觉疼痛吗？还是只是整体上感觉不适...
Just tired and coughing.
只是疲劳和咳嗽。
Okay, alright, sweetheart, we're gonna have you come over here to do the lung test.
好了，好了，亲爱的，我们要让你到这里做肺部测试。
If you're ready.
如果你准备好了的话。
Blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow, blow.
就吹，吹，吹，吹，吹，吹，吹，吹，吹，吹。
Deep breath in. 69 percent. Mkay, alright.
深吸一口气。69%。好的，好的。
The higher your lung function is, the better your life expectancy is.
你的肺功能越高，你的预期寿命就越长。
And actually on the paper, it will say like this is the lung health of a 67 year old.
而实际在检查单上，它会说这像是一个67岁的人的肺部健康状况。
So I'm 22, but it shows on there 67 years old.
我22岁，但上面显示是67岁。
I wanna be a mom one day.
我想有一天我会成为一个母亲。
To think maybe one day I can go nine months without being on all those antibiotics.
想到也许有一天我可以在九个月内不使用所有这些抗生素。
Then I would have nine months where my baby could grow in a normal body.
然后我将有九个月的时间，我的孩子可以在一个正常的身体里成长。
My best case scenario for phages is to at least get my lung function to 85 to 90.
我对噬菌体的最好设想是至少让我的肺功能达到85至90。
I would be so happy.
那我会特别高兴。
Okay, so here's my fridge full of all my water samples and some phages from all over the world, places I've visited to sample.
好，这是我的冰箱，里面装满了我所有的水样和一些来自世界各地的噬菌体，它们都是我访问过的地方的样本。
This is sewage from a town in Mexico called Cuatro Ciénegas.
这是墨西哥一个叫Cuatro Ciénegas的小镇的污水。
From here there's a pig farm, here in Connecticut.
从这里有一个养猪场，在康涅狄格州。
These are from Uganda and Kenya.
这些是来自乌干达和肯尼亚。
I have phages that we use to for Paige, here.
我有一些噬菌体，我们要给佩奇使用，在这里。
Where do they come from? So New Haven, Lyme, Connecticut and one from East Africa, from in the Congo.
它们来自哪里？康涅狄格州的纽黑文、莱姆，还有一个来自东非，来自刚果。
Boom.
轰隆隆。
So as you can see in the tube here on the left, it's Paige's bacteria alone, okay.
你可以看到在左边的管子里，只有佩奇的细菌，好的。
And the one on the right is uh, Paige's bacteria plus bacteriophage.
而右边的是佩奇的细菌加上噬菌体。
And you can see it's really turbid or cloudy, since the bacteria is growing.
你可以看到它真的很浑浊或浑浊，因为细菌在生长。
And in this tube here it's very clear, which means that phages killed bacteria.
而在这个管子里，它非常清晰，这意味着噬菌体杀死了细菌。
So from here, all we gotta do is clean up the prep, concentrate the phages and then we can ship it off to Paige.
因此，从这里开始，我们要做的就是清理准备工作，浓缩噬菌体，然后我们可以把它运给佩奇。
