Andrew Pelling: This scientist makes ears out of apples
アンドリュー・ペリング: リンゴから耳を作るマッドサイエンティスト
Andrew Pelling's unconventional and creative scientific process is founded on play. Full bio
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あさるのが好きなんです
しているのではありません
for old electronics,
自分の作業場で利用できる
turn things on and off.
オン・オフだってできます
into an awesome robot.
凄いヤツに改造できます
a lot of stuff out of garbage,
多くのものを作りました
have even been kind of useful.
創造力を働かせ
to amuse myself.
遊び心を楽しむ機会を与えてくれます
so I just made it part of my day job.
これも自分の仕事の一部にしてしまいました
biological research lab,
and exploration above all else.
何よりも価値を見出しています
on any particular problem,
取り組んでいるわけでも
any particular disease.
しているわけでもありません
and find answers.
答えを見つける そんな場所です
to build the equipment they need
私が見つけたがらくたから作れないか―
気づきました
from around the world
we value unconventional ideas,
独創的なアイデアを重視するだけでなく
I was taking it apart,
がらくたを分解し始めました
扱えないだろうか?
in some new and creative way?
再構成することはできないだろうか?
tell me what fruit this is?
That's right -- it's an apple.
その通り リンゴです
than most apples.
we grew human cells into it.
Macintosh apple,
穢れなきリンゴを手にして
after removing all the apple cells
残ったのは―
骨組みだけです
their shape and texture.
作り出しています
the apple cells used to be.
リンゴの細胞でした
that you can see in blue.
青く見えているものです
these guys start multiplying
これが増殖し
of how our own tissues are organized.
どうだろうと考えさせます
these scaffolds into the body,
体に移植することができ
and a blood supply
血液を供給するので
生き続けるということです
when people started asking me,
人々は私に質問し始めました
body parts out of apples?"
作ることは可能だろうか?」
to the right place."
of wood carving for a living.
生計を立てています
literally carve some ears
in the ear-manufacturing business.
耳を作る事業はしていません
on this for decades.
研究してきた人たちがいますが
really expensive and problematic,
しかも問題を抱えています
from proprietary products,
しかもただ同然です
to make these things.
can be built from garbage,
がらくたから作ることが出来て
only requires soap and water.
石鹸と水だけです
the instructions online as open source.
ネットで公開しました
a mission-driven company,
to make it easier
and a soldering iron
about is if one day,
いつの日か
and augment our own bodies
我々の体を修復、再生、拡張が出来たなら
your pee smell funny.
おしっこが変に匂います
and I was noticing
気づいたことがあります
the stalks of these asparagus,
覗いてみると
are all these tiny little vessels.
forms these structures.
作り出している様子が分かります
of our nerves and spinal cord.
down these channels?
成長させることができるだろうか?
to form new connections
切断された神経の端と端を
and severed nerves.
可能になるかもしれないからです
working on this.
このことを研究している人たちがいます
我々だけですね
really promising pilot data.
初期的なデータを手にしました
見出そうとしています
お見せした全ての作品
that's all around me on this stage
私が作成した全てのもの それに―
my lab is involved in
その他の全てのプロジェクトは
of me playing with your garbage.
私が遊び心で作ったものばかりです
of my scientific practice.
私の科学的実践の本質です
to be unconventional and to be creative
決めました
are looking at some old,
古くなって―
piece-of-crap technology,
がらくたみたいな部品を見つけたら
to get in touch with me,
何とかして私に連絡をとってください
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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