Tal Danino: Programming bacteria to detect cancer (and maybe treat it)
Tal Danino: Možemo da koristimo bakterije da otkrijemo rak (a možda i da ga lečimo)
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 zvezda u celoj našoj galaksiji.
of bacteria inside of us
koji se nalazi u nama
like we program computers.
ove bakterije poput kompjutera.
some kind of sports play,
the first bacterial program I developed.
za bakterije koji sam razvio.
we can print and write DNA
možemo štampati i pisati DNK
and programs inside of bacteria.
unutar bakterija.
is produces fluorescent proteins
fluorescentne proteine
to communicate and synchronize,
da komuniciraju i razmnožavaju se,
that you see here
koju vidite ovde
is that our genetic program
je to da naš genetski program
to each produce small molecules,
da svaka proizvodi male molekule
the thousands of individual bacteria
pojedinačnih bakterija
quite well at this scale,
sinhronizuju prilično dobro,
them together can only travel so fast,
može da putuje samo na određenoj brzini,
this results in traveling waves
ovo za posledicu ima talase koji putuju
far away from each other,
koje su međusobno udaljene
from right to left across the screen.
zdesna na levo preko ekrana.
relies on a natural phenomenon
na prirodnu pojavu
and sometimes virulent behaviors
i ponekad virusno ponašanje
na delu u ovom snimku,
in action in this movie,
only begins to glow
počinje da sija tek onda
or critical density.
ili kritične gustine.
rhythmic patterns of fluorescent proteins
ritmičke šablone fluorescentnih proteina
we call The Supernova,
nazivamo Supernova
these beautiful patterns,
ovih predivnih šablona,
da nateramo bakterije da urade?
these bacteria to do?
how we can program bacteria
kako možemo programirati bakterije
in our bodies like cancer.
poput raka.
u vezi sa bakterijama
inside of tumors.
unutar tumora.
has no access,
to grow and thrive.
da rastu i napreduju.
probiotičke bakterije
that have a health benefit,
i imaju zdravstvenu korist,
when orally delivered to mice,
oralno konzumiraju,
grow inside of liver tumors.
unutar tumora jetre.
of the probiotics,
to produce a signal
da proizvode signal
programmed these probiotics
ove probiotike
the color of your urine
boju vašeg urina
detect liver cancer,
da otkrije rak jetre,
to detect otherwise.
specifically localize to tumors,
lokalizuju na tumore,
to not only detect cancer
ne samo da otkriju rak,
from within the tumor environment
iz unutrašnjosti okruženja tumora,
using quorum sensing programs
za detekciju kvoruma
taking a programmed probiotic
uzimate programirani probiotik
I worked with artist Vik Muniz
radio sam s umetnikom Vikom Munizom
or cancer cells.
ili ćelija raka.
and purpose of this microscopic universe
ovog mikroskopskog univerzuma
for the future of cancer research.
za buduća 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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