Patience Mthunzi: Could we cure HIV with lasers?
Patience Mthunzi: Ar galėtume išgydyti ŽIV su lazeriais?
Patience Mthunzi wants to use lasers to deliver medicines more effectively. Full bio
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to your head, where the pain is,
kur skauda,
and various other organs first.
skrandį, žarnyną ir kitus organus.
and painless way of delivering
ir neskausmingas būdas įvesti
any medication leads to its dilution.
veda į jų susilpninimą.
particularly in HIV patients.
ypač ŽIV pacientams.
the virus in the blood,
for their adverse side effects,
poveikio,
by the time they get to the blood,
kol patenka į kraują,
they get to the sites
į vietas,
within the HIV viral reservoirs.
ŽIV viruso rezervuaruose.
such as the lymph nodes,
as well as the lungs --
get delivered in the blood
consistent anti-HIV drugs therapy.
anti-ŽIV vaistų terapijoje.
and infect new cells in the blood.
naujas kraujo ląsteles.
HIV with the current drug treatment,
dabartinių vaistų taikymu,
that must be swallowed by patients.
kurį turi išgerti pacientai.
within its reservoir sites,
į vidinių rezervuarų vietas
the answer was just before my eyes:
atsakymas buvo prieš mano akis:
odontologijoje,
we are currently using laser pulses
lazerio impulsus
skylutes,
immediately in HIV-infected cells,
ŽIV infekuotose ląstelėse,
but super-tiny laser beam
ir itin mažą lazerio spindulį
in liquid containing the drug.
su vaistais.
while the cell swallows the drug
šiai absorbuojant vaistus
becomes immediately repaired.
this technology in test tubes
mėgintuvėliuose
this technology in the human body,
į žmogaus kūną,
through a three-headed device.
prietaisą.
in the site of infection.
which is a drug-spreading sprinkler,
vaistų purkštuvu,
at the site of infection,
ant infekcijos vietos,
to poke those cells open.
ląstelių atvėrimui.
like much right now.
this technology can lead
ši technologija gali vesti
of HIV in the body.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Patience Mthunzi - Laser scientistPatience Mthunzi wants to use lasers to deliver medicines more effectively.
Why you should listen
Patience Mthunzi is a research group leader at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria, South Africa. There, she uses laser "tweezers" to try and separate diseased cells from healthy ones. She's also developed a way to use laser pulses to target drug delivery into cells.
Born in Soweto, Patience got her PhD in physics from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. In 2012, she was named one of 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa by Forbes magazine; that same year she was given the Order of Mapungubwe for her contribution in the field of biophotonics. She's also a TED Fellow.
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