Andrew Pelling: This scientist makes ears out of apples
Andrew Pelling: O cientista louco que usa maçãs para fazer orelhas
Andrew Pelling's unconventional and creative scientific process is founded on play. Full bio
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for old electronics,
construir coisas que se movem.
turn things on and off.
e desligar coisas.
into an awesome robot.
a lot of stuff out of garbage,
have even been kind of useful.
uma chance de brincar,
to amuse myself.
coisas para me divertir.
so I just made it part of my day job.
esse hábito no meu trabalho.
de pesquisa biológica
biological research lab,
and exploration above all else.
a curiosidade e a exploração.
on any particular problem,
any particular disease.
nenhuma doença específica.
and find answers.
e encontrar respostas.
to build the equipment they need
o equipamento de que precisam
de estimular a criatividade.
from around the world
do mundo todo
we value unconventional ideas,
ideias inovadoras,
e validamos com rigor científico.
I was taking it apart,
algo, separando as peças,
como fazemos com o hardware?
um sistema biológico,
in some new and creative way?
de uma forma nova e criativa?"
tell me what fruit this is?
That's right -- it's an apple.
than most apples.
do que a maioria das maçãs.
we grew human cells into it.
células humanas dentro dela.
Macintosh apple,
after removing all the apple cells
their shape and texture.
sua forma e textura.
the apple cells used to be.
que vocês podem ver em azul.
that you can see in blue.
these guys start multiplying
of how our own tissues are organized.
como nossos tecidos se organizam.
pré-clínico, descobrimos
these scaffolds into the body,
estes scaffolds no corpo,
and a blood supply
e suprimento sanguíneo
when people started asking me,
body parts out of apples?"
partes do corpo com maçãs?"
to the right place."
of wood carving for a living.
literally carve some ears
algumas orelhas de maçã para nós?"
in the ear-manufacturing business.
no ramo da fabricação de orelhas.
on this for decades.
trabalhando nisso há décadas.
really expensive and problematic,
ser muito caros e problemáticos,
from proprietary products,
e saiu a preço de banana.
to make these things.
can be built from garbage,
pode ser construído com sucata,
only requires soap and water.
requer apenas água e sabão.
on-line com o código aberto.
the instructions online as open source.
a mission-driven company,
to make it easier
kits para que seja possível
and a soldering iron
uma pia e um ferro de solda
about is if one day,
and augment our own bodies
e melhorar nosso próprio corpo
your pee smell funny.
um cheiro estranho ao xixi.
and I was noticing
the stalks of these asparagus,
are all these tiny little vessels.
forms these structures.
forma essas estruturas.
of our nerves and spinal cord.
de nossos nervos e da coluna vertebral.
down these channels?
e neurônios nesses canais?
to form new connections
and severed nerves.
danificados e rompidos.
extremamente desafiador e difícil,
working on this.
really promising pilot data.
dados-piloto realmente promissores
e neurocirurgiões trabalhando
that's all around me on this stage
tudo isso ao meu redor aqui no palco
my lab is involved in
of me playing with your garbage.
da minha brincadeira com o seu lixo.
of my scientific practice.
da minha prática científica.
to be unconventional and to be creative
minha mente para inovar e criar
are looking at some old,
que virem alguma porcaria
piece-of-crap technology,
to get in touch with me,
de entrar em contato comigo,
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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