So basically what he did was to take a healthy cell and turn it into a sick cell, and he recapitulated the disease over and over again in the dish, and this was extraordinary, because it was the first time that we had a model of a disease from a living patient in living human cells.
因此简单说来，他取了一个健康细胞， 将其变成一个病变细胞， 并且在培养皿中反复再现这一病变过程。 这非常了不起， 因为这是我们第一次使用活人细胞 对疾病进行建模。