The nanomachines can drill into cancer cells.

纳米机器可以钻进癌细胞。

In 2016, three researchers received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating the first nanomachines.

2016年，3名研究人员因发明了第一批纳米机器获得诺贝尔化学奖。

They were experimenting with tiny man-made nanomachines that can drill into a cell, killing it.

他们正在用微小的人造纳米机器进行实验，这种机器可以钻进一个细胞，并杀死它。

This year researchers will start testing nanomachines on Staphylococcus bacteria skin affections on live rodents.

今年，研究人员将开始测试纳米机器对活体啮齿动物的葡萄球菌、细菌、皮肤的影响。

Tour said the team has tried four different kinds of cancer cells, and the nanomachines killed all of them.

图尔表示，该团队已经尝试了4种不同类型的癌细胞，纳米机器杀死了全部癌细胞。

The team is experimenting with very small nanomachines that can drill into a cell and kill it.

该团队正在试验一种微型纳米机器，它可以钻入细胞并消灭它。

In another application, nanomachines could be used to sculpt away fat cells when applied onto the skin through a gel.

在另一个应用中，通过将凝胶涂抹在皮肤上，纳米机器可以用来雕刻掉脂肪细胞。

The nanomachines are so small that about 50,000 of them can fit across the diameter of a human hair, says Tour.

图尔说，这些纳米机器非常小，大约五万个这种机器可以达到人类头发的直径。

But the team's cell-killing nanomachines are much smaller. About 50,000 of them can fit across the width of a human hair.

但是该团队的细胞杀灭纳米机器要小得多。大约5万个纳米机器相当于一根头发的直径。

In addition to killing bacteria and cancer cells, nanomachines might be used to kill fat cells when placed onto the skin with a gel.

除了杀死细菌和癌细胞，当用凝胶将纳米机器置于皮肤上时，它还可以杀死脂肪细胞。

It would only take a few minutes to kill cancer cells with nanomachines, Tour added. He noted that radiation and chemotherapy take much longer.

图尔补充说，纳米机器杀死癌细胞只需要几分钟。他提到，放疗和化疗的时间更久。

It has even been theorized that viruses are nothing more than the descendants of malfunctioning nanomachines made by aliens and dispersed into the universe billions of years ago.

甚至有理论认为，病毒不过是外星人制造并在数十亿年前分散到宇宙中的故障纳米机器的后代。