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Simply put: it's because diffusion coefficients vary with temperature. You can think of temperature increase as an increase in the kinetic energy of molecular motion. Thus, at the molecular/atomic scale, substances are shuttling around at faster velocities and diffusion rates go up (for a better answer you can look-up brownian motion).
Alternatively, you've simply increased the temperature to such a degree that the cell membrane lyses -- then you've got a diffusion problem for sure. Molecular biologists commonly use a less severe method called 'heat-shock' to introduce DNA into cells.
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