Andrew Pelling: This scientist makes ears out of apples
Andrew Pelling: Este científico hace orejas con manzanas
Andrew Pelling's unconventional and creative scientific process is founded on play. Full bio
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en la basura de la gente.
for old electronics,
desechos electrónicos,
las unidades de CD-ROM.
cosas que se mueven.
turn things on and off.
para encender y apagar cosas.
into an awesome robot.
en un robot asombroso.
a lot of stuff out of garbage,
con desechos,
have even been kind of useful.
la posibilidad de jugar,
to amuse myself.
y divertirme.
so I just made it part of my day job.
es parte de mi trabajo cotidiano.
de investigación biológica,
biological research lab,
and exploration above all else.
y la exploración sobre lo demás.
on any particular problem,
un problema en especial,
ninguna enfermedad en particular.
any particular disease.
and find answers.
y encontrar respuestas.
to build the equipment they need
a construir lo que necesitan,
fomentar la creatividad.
from around the world
we value unconventional ideas,
las ideas no convencionales,
I was taking it apart,
lo estaba desarmando,
in some new and creative way?
de manera creativa y novedosa?
tell me what fruit this is?
qué fruta es esta?
That's right -- it's an apple.
Correcto, es una manzana.
than most apples.
la mayoría de las manzanas.
en ella células humanas.
we grew human cells into it.
Macintosh apple,
de manzana del ADN
after removing all the apple cells
de manzana, nos queda
their shape and texture.
su forma y su textura.
the apple cells used to be.
that you can see in blue.
que pueden ver en azul.
these guys start multiplying
of how our own tissues are organized.
se organizan nuestros tejidos.
estructuras en el cuerpo,
these scaffolds into the body,
and a blood supply
y suministro de sangre
when people started asking me,
empieza a preguntarme:
body parts out of apples?"
partes del cuerpo con manzanas?"
to the right place."
"Vinieron al lugar indicado".
of wood carving for a living.
para ganarse la vida.
literally carve some ears
in the ear-manufacturing business.
a la fabricación de orejas.
on this for decades.
en esto durante décadas.
really expensive and problematic,
pueden ser muy caras y problemáticas,
from proprietary products,
que cuesta centavos.
to make these things.
hacer estas cosas.
can be built from garbage,
only requires soap and water.
solo requiere agua y jabón.
the instructions online as open source.
como código abierto.
impulsada por una misión,
a mission-driven company,
para que sea más fácil
to make it easier
and a soldering iron
un lavamanos y un soldador
about is if one day,
and augment our own bodies
y aumentar nuestros propios cuerpos
your pee smell funny.
a la orina un aroma raro.
and I was noticing
the stalks of these asparagus,
los tallos de los espárragos,
are all these tiny little vessels.
forms these structures.
están formadas por la celulosa.
of our nerves and spinal cord.
de los nervios y la médula espinal.
down these channels?
en estos canales?
to form new connections
para formar nuevas conexiones
and severed nerves.
y los nervios cortados.
working on this.
que trabajamos en esto.
que usan espárragos.
really promising pilot data.
muy prometedores del piloto.
con ingenieros de tejidos
that's all around me on this stage
que me rodean en el escenario
my lab is involved in
que participa mi laboratorio
of me playing with your garbage.
de jugar con los desechos.
of my scientific practice.
de mi práctica científica.
to be unconventional and to be creative
no convencional y creativa
orejas humanas con manzanas.
are looking at some old,
que alguno vea algún
piece-of-crap technology,
que no funciona,
to get in touch with me,
de ponerse en contacto conmigo,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Andrew Pelling - BiohackerAndrew Pelling's unconventional and creative scientific process is founded on play.
Why you should listen
Scientist, professor, entrepreneur and TED Fellow Andrew Pelling has built a career on unapologetic curiosity, creativity and serendipity. He is a professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa, where he founded and directs a curiosity-driven research lab that brings together artists, scientists, social scientists and engineers. The lab uses low-cost, open source materials and methods to explore speculative living technologies of the future. He has, for instance, created human body parts made from plants and grown living skins on LEGOs -- innovations with the potential to replace prohibitively expensive commercial biomaterials.
Pelling is also the co-founder and CTO of Spiderwort Inc., a mission driven company developing open source platforms to enable the widespread and global adoption of biological research in all environments and economic contexts. Most recently, he founded pHacktory, a street-level research lab in Ottawa that amplifies community ideas through a potent mixture of craft, serendipity and curiosity.
Pelling's work has been in the international media spotlight for many years, with recognition in outlets such as Wired, Huffington Post, NPR, Scientific American, Popular Science, BBC, Der Spiegel, Deutsche Welle and others, as well as numerous highlights in the Canadian media and Scientific media. He was named a TED Fellow in 2016.
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