Tal Danino: Programming bacteria to detect cancer (and maybe treat it)
Tal Danino: Možemo koristiti bakterije za otkrivanje raka (a možda i liječenje)
Tal Danino explores the emerging frontier of combining biology and engineering (and art). He is a 2015 TED Fellow. Full bio
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than stars in our entire galaxy.
nego zvijezda u našoj cijeloj galaksiji
of bacteria inside of us
u našem tijelu
like we program computers.
bakterije kao što programiramo računala
some kind of sports play,
kao nacrt za neku sportsku igru,
the first bacterial program I developed.
bakterijskog programa kojeg sam razvio.
we can print and write DNA
možemo tiskati i pisati DNA
and programs inside of bacteria.
i programe unutar bakterije.
is produces fluorescent proteins
proizvodnja fluorescentnih
to communicate and synchronize,
komunikaciju i sinkronizaciju,
that you see here
koju vidite ovdje
is that our genetic program
jest da naš genetički program
to each produce small molecules,
da svaka proizvodi sitne molekule
the thousands of individual bacteria
tisuća ovih pojedinačnih bakterija.
quite well at this scale,
sinkroniziraju na ovoj razini,
them together can only travel so fast,
sinkroniziraju zajedno mogu putovati samo
this results in traveling waves
to rezultira pojavom putujućih valova
far away from each other,
su međusobno udaljene
from right to left across the screen.
zdesna nalijevo preko zaslona.
relies on a natural phenomenon
se oslanja na prirodni fenomen
and sometimes virulent behaviors
a nekad i zarazna ponašanja
in action in this movie,
očitavanje u akciji u ovom videu
only begins to glow
tek započinje sjati
or critical density.
ili kritičnu gustoć.
rhythmic patterns of fluorescent proteins
uzorke fluorescentnih proteina
we call The Supernova,
mi zovemo Supernova,
eksplodirajuće zvijezde.
these beautiful patterns,
ovih predivnih uzoraka,
postići da ove bakterije rade?
these bacteria to do?
how we can program bacteria
možemo programirati bakterije
in our bodies like cancer.
tijelu bolesti poput raka
činjenica o bakterijama
inside of tumors.
izrasti unutar tumora.
has no access,
sustav nema pristup,
to grow and thrive.
za rast i napredak.
probiotičke bakterije
that have a health benefit,
i koriste zdravlju,
when orally delivered to mice,
se oralno da mišu
grow inside of liver tumors.
rastu unutar tumora jetre.
of the probiotics,
to produce a signal
bakterije proizvode signal
programmed these probiotics
programirali te probiotike
the color of your urine
boju vaše mokraće
pokazali da bi ova
detect liver cancer,
specifično otkriti rak jetre,
to detect otherwise.
zahtjevno otkriti.
specifically localize to tumors,
posebno vežu uz tumore,
to not only detect cancer
osim što otkrivaju rak
from within the tumor environment
iz unutrašnjosti tumora
using quorum sensing programs
programe kvorum očitovanja
taking a programmed probiotic
uzmemo programirani probiotik
I worked with artist Vik Muniz
s umjetnikom Vikom Munizom
or cancer cells.
bakterija i stanica raka.
and purpose of this microscopic universe
i svrha ovog mikroskopskog svemira
for the future of cancer research.
u budućnosti istraživanja raka.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Tal Danino - Synthetic biologistTal Danino explores the emerging frontier of combining biology and engineering (and art). He is a 2015 TED Fellow.
Why you should listen
Tal Danino's research explores the emerging frontier of combining biology, engineering and medicine. His work as a synthetic biologist focuses on reprogramming bacteria to detect and treat diseases in our bodies such as cancer.
Originally from Los Angeles, Danino received B.S. degrees from UCLA in Physics, Chemistry and Math, and received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from UCSD. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently an assistant professor at Columbia University in New York.
Danino's work has been published in scientific journals and highlighted in several popular press venues. He actively develops "Bio-Art" projects that share perspectives and stories about science with recent projects featured in the New York Times, WIRED, and the Wall Street Journal.
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