Anushka Naiknaware: A teen scientist's invention to help wounds heal
Anushka Naiknaware: A invenção de uma cientista adolescente para ajudar a curar feridas
In 2016, at age 13, Anushka Naiknaware was the youngest winner of the Google Science Fair, with her invention of a clever new bandage that tells caregivers when it needs to be changed. Full bio
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I was always fascinated --
the world worked exactly how it did.
funcionava da forma exata que ele era.
of mathematics and chemistry.
da matemática e da química.
and as I kept going,
e, conforme continuei seguindo,
of science are interconnected.
das ciências eram conectados entre si.
have little or no value.
pouco ou nenhum valor.
and my local science museum,
e o museu de ciências local,
these questions myself
essas perguntas por mim mesma
pesquisa independente,
of my garage or my bedroom.
de feiras de ciências
that I so desperately wanted.
que eu tanto procurava.
for a competition,
anatomia para uma competição,
of something called chronic wounds.
chamado "feridas crônicas".
to me was a statistic
alarmante foram as estatísticas
in the United States with chronic wounds
com feridas crônicas nos Estados Unidos
with breast cancer,
com câncer de mama,
and leukemia, combined.
e leucemia, combinados.
about a 5K walk for chronic wounds,
caminhada de 5 km para feridas crônicas,
about a chronic wound in general?
sobre ferida crônica em geral?
those preliminary questions,
por essas questões preliminares,
when someone gets a normal wound,
quando uma pessoa tem uma ferida comum,
of preexisting condition,
de condição pré-existente,
were to be found
conforme continuei pesquisando.
to treat chronic wounds.
o mundo para tratar feridas crônicas.
that about two percent of the population
que cerca de 2% da população
at some point in their lifetime.
em algum ponto de sua vida.
vi que havia uma correlação
inside a wound dressing
dentro de uma atadura
that the chronic wound would be at.
within the wound
dentro da ferida
treat their wounds better.
a tratar melhor essas feridas?
the healing process.
acelerar o processo de cura.
out of her garage-turned-lab,
transformada em laboratório,
I wasn't given a lot of money,
financeira e não tinha muito dinheiro,
a lot of criteria, as well.
readily interacting with the body,
pronto para interagir com o corpo,
e também de baixo custo,
and paying for it myself.
e pagando por ele sozinha.
anywhere, for anyone.
em qualquer lugar, para qualquer um.
is the early schematics in my design,
o primeiro esquema do meu projeto,
and also one stacking variant.
e da variante montável.
of different individual parts
de diferentes partes individuais
is one possible arrangement.
stumbles along their work,
têm tropeços durante seus trabalhos,
in my first generation of sensors.
na minha primeira geração de sensores.
into a printcheck cartridge
dentro de um cartucho comum
the sensitivity of my sensors.
a sensitividade dos meus sensores.
para cima ou para baixo,
anything of that sort.
by some scouting on eBay and Amazon
pesquisando no eBay e Amazon
required a lot more thought.
um pouco mais de raciocínio.
a área dentro de uma unidade quadrada.
within one unit square.
you can have different iterations
você pode ter diferentes iterações
to one unit square,
de uma unidade quadrada,
the thickness, the size,
a espessura, o tamanho,
and I could predict my results.
e prever os meus resultados.
e a testá-los mais rigorosamente,
from previous science fair awards.
em feiras de ciências anteriores.
in order to be read.
esses dados para serem lidos.
com um chip de Bluetooth,
by the app screenshots on the right.
de tela do aplicativo, à direita.
can monitor the progress of their wound,
o progresso de sua ferida,
over a wireless connection
através de uma conexão sem fio
or whoever needs it.
ou quem quer que precise disso.
was successful --
apesar disso, a ciência nunca acaba.
something to be refined.
algo a ser refinado.
in the process of doing.
do que aquilo que eu criei
than the actual thing I designed
taken on while doing this.
enquanto o fazia.
working in her garage
e trabalhar na minha garagem
completely understand,
and contribute to the field.
e contribuir para o campo.
a continuar fazendo,
to also do work like this
a fazerem um trabalho como esse,
very sure about it.
muito certos sobre isso.
that you all take on today.
que todos captaram hoje.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Anushka Naiknaware - ScientistIn 2016, at age 13, Anushka Naiknaware was the youngest winner of the Google Science Fair, with her invention of a clever new bandage that tells caregivers when it needs to be changed.
Why you should listen
When Anushka Naiknaware was young, she would spend hours at the chemistry lab at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland and not leave until she had finished every experiment available. Her early interest was chemistry and mathematics, but she quickly learned that every branch of science is connected, including physics, biology and computer science. In fact, her winning Google Science Fair project loops together materials science, fractal math and biology.
Naiknaware has won many awards in notable science and math competitions. She was the youngest winner of the Google Science Fair in 2016, and she won the first-place Mathematics STEM Award at Broadcom MASTERS (Math, Applied Science, Technology and Engineering Rising Stars), a premier competition run by the Society for Science and the Public. Naiknaware is inspired by Marie Curie, whose work contributed to major advances in modern medicine. Anushka admires her spirit and enthusiasm to continue her work in a time when women's contributions in science weren't appreciated.
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