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.
Er nahm also eine gesunde Zelle und wandelte sie in eine kranke Zelle um. Immer und immer wieder vollzog er die Erkrankung in der Schale nach. Das war großartig, denn zum ersten Mal hatten wir das Modell einer Krankheit eines lebenden Patienten in lebendigen menschlichen Zellen.