Tal Danino: Programming bacteria to detect cancer (and maybe treat it)
Tal Danino: Mes galime panaudoti bakterijas nustatant vėžį (ir gal net jį gydant)
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.
negu žvaigždžių visoje visatoje.
of bacteria inside of us
like we program computers.
bakterijas, kaip ir kompiuterius.
some kind of sports play,
the first bacterial program I developed.
bakterinės programos brėžinys.
palikti pėdsaką ir įrašyti į DNR
we can print and write DNA
and programs inside of bacteria.
ir programas bakterijose.
liuminescencinius baltymus
is produces fluorescent proteins
komunikuoti ir sinchronizuotis,
to communicate and synchronize,
that you see here
is that our genetic program
to each produce small molecules,
kiekvienai jų gaminti mažas molekules,
the thousands of individual bacteria
individualių bakterijų,
quite well at this scale,
gan gerai sinchronizuoja.
keliauja taip greitai,
them together can only travel so fast,
sukelia keliaujančias bangas,
this results in traveling waves
far away from each other,
per ekraną iš dešinės į kairę.
from right to left across the screen.
kliaunasi gamtos reiškiniu,
relies on a natural phenomenon
ir kartais nuodingą elgseną,
and sometimes virulent behaviors
in action in this movie,
veiksme šiame filme,
only begins to glow
pradeda švytėti,
or critical density.
rhythmic patterns of fluorescent proteins
baltymų raštų gamybą,
we call The Supernova,
kurį vadiname Supernova,
these beautiful patterns,
daryti šias bakterijas?
these bacteria to do?
galėtume bakterijas programuoti
how we can program bacteria
in our bodies like cancer.
tokias kaip vėžys.
faktų apie bakterijas
inside of tumors.
gali augti augliuose.
negali pasiekti,
has no access,
to grow and thrive.
augti ir klestėti.
that have a health benefit,
naudingos sveikatai,
when orally delivered to mice,
per burną pelėms,
grow inside of liver tumors.
auga auglių viduje.
of the probiotics,
gaminti signalą,
to produce a signal
programmed these probiotics
šias bakterijas konkrečiai
the color of your urine
leidžiančią keisti šlapimo spalvą,
detect liver cancer,
aptikti kepenų vėžį,
to detect otherwise.
lokalizuojasi augliuose,
specifically localize to tumors,
to not only detect cancer
from within the tumor environment
iš auglio vidaus aplinkos,
using quorum sensing programs
„kvorumo jutimo" programas
taking a programmed probiotic
programuotus probiotikus,
I worked with artist Vik Muniz
dirbau su menininku Vik Muniz
or cancer cells.
ar vėžio ląstelių.
and purpose of this microscopic universe
mikroskopinės visatos grožis ir tikslas,
for the future of cancer research.
ateities vėžio tyrimuose.
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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