For more than half a century the fundamental story of living things has been a tale of the interplay between genes, in the form of DNA, and proteins, which the genes encode and which do the donkey work of keeping living organisms living.

• 半个多世纪以来，关于生命的大部分故事说白了就是DNA基因和这些基因经过编码和简单的组合形成的蛋白质间相互作用的故事，而正是这些蛋白质使有机体具有了生命。