Francis Collins: We need better drugs -- now

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Translator: Serv. de Norm. Lingüística U. de Santiago de Compostela Reviewer: Xusto Rodriguez
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So let me ask for a show of hands.
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Levanten as mans, por favor.
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How many people here are over the age of 48?
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Cantos dos que están aquí teñen máis de 48 anos?
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Well, there do seem to be a few.
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Ben, parece que hai uns cantos.
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Well, congratulations,
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Parabéns,
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because if you look at this particular slide of U.S. life expectancy,
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porque se miran este gráfico da esperanza de vida nos EE.UU.
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you are now in excess of the average life span
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verán que superan xa a esperanza de vida media
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of somebody who was born in 1900.
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de alguén que nacera en 1900.
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But look what happened in the course of that century.
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Pero vexan o que pasou no correr dese século.
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If you follow that curve,
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Se seguen esta curva,
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you'll see that it starts way down there.
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verán que comeza aí abaixo.
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There's that dip there for the 1918 flu.
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Velaquí a baixada por causa da gripe do 1918.
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And here we are at 2010,
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E velaquí 2010,
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average life expectancy of a child born today, age 79,
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a esperanza de vida dun neno ou dunha nena que naza hoxe é de 79 anos,
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and we are not done yet.
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e isto aínda non rematou.
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Now, that's the good news.
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Estas son as boas novas.
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But there's still a lot of work to do.
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Pero aínda queda moito por facer.
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So, for instance, if you ask,
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Se nos preguntamos, por exemplo,
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how many diseases do we now know
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a cantas enfermidades lle coñecemos
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the exact molecular basis?
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a base molecular exacta?
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Turns out it's about 4,000, which is pretty amazing,
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Son sobre 4000, o cal é incrible,
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because most of those molecular discoveries
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porque a maioría destes descubrimentos
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have just happened in the last little while.
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ocorreron hai pouco.
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It's exciting to see that in terms of what we've learned,
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É emocionante ver o que aprendemos,
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but how many of those 4,000 diseases
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pero destas 4000 enfermidades,
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now have treatments available?
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cantas teñen tratamento dispoñible?
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Only about 250.
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Só unhas 250.
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So we have this huge challenge, this huge gap.
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Temos este gran desafío, este gran baleiro.
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You would think this wouldn't be too hard,
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Podería pensarse que non debería ser moi complicado
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that we would simply have the ability
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se temos a capacidade
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to take this fundamental information that we're learning
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de coller esa información esencial que estamos adquirindo
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about how it is that basic biology teaches us
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sobre o que nos ensina a bioloxía básica
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about the causes of disease
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arredor das causas das enfermidades
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and build a bridge across this yawning gap
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e construír unha ponte sobre este enorme baleiro
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between what we've learned about basic science
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entre o que aprendemos de ciencia básica
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and its application,
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e a súa aplicación,
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a bridge that would look maybe something like this,
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unha ponte que se puidese parecer a esta,
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where you'd have to put together a nice shiny way
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onde tes que percorrer un brillante camiño
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to get from one side to the other.
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para chegar dun lado a outro.
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Well, wouldn't it be nice if it was that easy?
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Non sería xenial se fose así de sinxelo?
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Unfortunately, it's not.
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Por desgraza, non o é.
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In reality, trying to go from fundamental knowledge
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Na realidade, tentar ir dende o coñecemento fundamental
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to its application is more like this.
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á súa aplicación, é máis ben así.
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There are no shiny bridges.
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Non hai pontes brillantes.
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You sort of place your bets.
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En certa medida, fanse apostas.
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Maybe you've got a swimmer and a rowboat
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Pode que teñan un nadador, un bote,
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and a sailboat and a tugboat
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un veleiro e unha lancha
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and you set them off on their way,
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e inician a viaxe,
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and the rains come and the lightning flashes,
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comeza a chover e a tronar,
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and oh my gosh, there are sharks in the water
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mi madriña! hai tiburóns na auga,
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and the swimmer gets into trouble,
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o nadador comeza a ter problemas,
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and, uh oh, the swimmer drowned
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oh, o nadador afogou,
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and the sailboat capsized,
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o veleiro envorcou,
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and that tugboat, well, it hit the rocks,
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e a lancha bateu nas rochas,
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and maybe if you're lucky, somebody gets across.
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e con sorte, alguén conseguiu cruzar.
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Well, what does this really look like?
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Ben, como é isto en realidade?
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Well, what is it to make a therapeutic, anyway?
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Que é facer unha terapia, á fin e ó cabo?
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What's a drug? A drug is made up
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Que é un fármaco? Un fármaco está formado
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of a small molecule of hydrogen, carbon,
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por unha pequena molécula de hidróxeno, carbono,
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oxygen, nitrogen, and a few other atoms
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osíxeno, nitróxeno e outros átomos
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all cobbled together in a shape,
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todos conectados dunha certa forma,
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and it's those shapes that determine whether, in fact,
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e estas formas son as que determinan
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that particular drug is going to hit its target.
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que este fármaco en concreto alcance o seu albo.
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Is it going to land where it's supposed to?
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Estase indo cara a onde se pretende?
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So look at this picture here -- a lot of shapes dancing around for you.
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Se miramos esta imaxe vemos unha morea de formas bailando.
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Now what you need to do, if you're trying to develop
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O que hai que facer, se se quere desenvolver
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a new treatment for autism
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un tratamento para o autismo,
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or Alzheimer's disease or cancer
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para o alzhéimer ou para o cancro,
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is to find the right shape in that mix
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é atopar nesa morea a forma axeitada
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that will ultimately provide benefit and will be safe.
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que nos provoque o beneficio desexado e que sexa segura.
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And when you look at what happens to that pipeline,
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Se vemos o que acontece neste funil,
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you start out maybe with thousands,
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comezamos con milleiros,
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tens of thousands of compounds.
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decenas de milleiros de compostos.
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You weed down through various steps
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Descartaranse algúns con varios filtros
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that cause many of these to fail.
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que amosan que moitos fallan.
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Ultimately, maybe you can run a clinical trial with four or five of these,
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Finalmente, pode que con catro ou cinco se realice un ensaio clínico,
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and if all goes well, 14 years after you started,
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e se todo vai ben, 14 anos despois,
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you will get one approval.
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consegue aprobarse un.
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And it will cost you upwards of a billion dollars
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E isto custará millóns de dólares
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for that one success.
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para un único éxito.
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So we have to look at this pipeline the way an engineer would,
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Debemos mirar este funil como o faría un enxeñeiro,
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and say, "How can we do better?"
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e dicir: "Como podemos mellorar"?
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And that's the main theme of what I want to say to you this morning.
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Disto é do que vos quero falar esta mañá.
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How can we make this go faster?
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Como o podemos facer máis rápido?
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How can we make it more successful?
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Como podemos ter máis éxito?
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Well, let me tell you about a few examples
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Vou falarvos duns exemplos
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where this has actually worked.
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onde isto funcionou.
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One that has just happened in the last few months
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Un aconteceu hai tan só uns meses
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is the successful approval of a drug for cystic fibrosis.
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e foi a aprobación dun fármaco para a fibrose quística.
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But it's taken a long time to get there.
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Pero levou moito tempo.
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Cystic fibrosis had its molecular cause discovered in 1989
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A base molecular da fibrose quística descubriuna en 1989
o meu grupo en colaboración con outro de Toronto,
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by my group working with another group in Toronto,
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discovering what the mutation was in a particular gene
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e descubrimos que a mutación estaba nun xene
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on chromosome 7.
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no cromosoma 7.
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That picture you see there?
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Vedes esta foto?
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Here it is. That's the same kid.
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Velaquí o está. É o mesmo neno.
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That's Danny Bessette, 23 years later,
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Danny Bessette, 23 anos despois,
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because this is the year,
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porque este é o ano,
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and it's also the year where Danny got married,
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e tamén é o ano en que Danny casou,
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where we have, for the first time, the approval by the FDA
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en que, por primeira vez, a FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
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of a drug that precisely targets the defect in cystic fibrosis
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aproba un fármaco que ataca con precisión o defecto da fibrose quística
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based upon all this molecular understanding.
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baseándose no coñecemento molecular.
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That's the good news.
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Estas son as boas novas.
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The bad news is, this drug doesn't actually treat all cases of cystic fibrosis,
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As malas son que o fármaco non trata todos os casos de fibrose quísitica,
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and it won't work for Danny, and we're still waiting
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e non funcionará para Danny. Estamos á espera
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for that next generation to help him.
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da seguinte xeración para axudalo.
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But it took 23 years to get this far. That's too long.
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Levou 23 anos conseguir isto. É demasiado.
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How do we go faster?
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Como imos máis rápido?
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Well, one way to go faster is to take advantage of technology,
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Unha opción é aproveitar o avance da tecnoloxía,
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and a very important technology that we depend on
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e unha tecnoloxía moi importante da que dependemos
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for all of this is the human genome,
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é o xenoma humano,
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the ability to be able to look at a chromosome,
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a capacidade de ver un cromosoma,
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to unzip it, to pull out all the DNA,
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desenrolalo, extraer o ADN,
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and to be able to then read out the letters in that DNA code,
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e ser capaces de ler as letras neste código do ADN,
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the A's, C's, G's and T's
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os A, os C, os G e os T
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that are our instruction book and the instruction book for all living things,
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que son o libro de instrucións que nós, e todos os seres vivos, temos,
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and the cost of doing this,
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e o custo de facer isto,
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which used to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars,
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que era de centos de millóns de dólares,
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has in the course of the last 10 years
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diminuíu nestes últimos 10 anos
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fallen faster than Moore's Law, down to the point
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máis rápido que a lei de Moore
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where it is less than 10,000 dollars today to have your genome sequenced, or mine,
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ata o punto de que hoxe custa menos de 10.000 dólares ter un xenoma secuenciado
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and we're headed for the $1,000 genome fairly soon.
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e axuña custará sobre os 1.000.
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Well, that's exciting.
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Isto é emocionante.
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How does that play out in terms of application to a disease?
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Que significa isto en termos de aplicación ás enfermidades?
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I want to tell you about another disorder.
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Quero falarlles doutra enfermidade.
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This one is a disorder which is quite rare.
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Esta é unha enfermidade rara.
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It's called Hutchinson-Gilford progeria,
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Chámase a proxeria de Hutchinson-Gilford,
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and it is the most dramatic form of premature aging.
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e é a forma máis drástica de envellecemento prematuro.
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Only about one in every four million kids has this disease,
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Só a ten un de cada catro millóns de nenos
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and in a simple way, what happens is,
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e dunha forma sinxela, o que acontece é que,
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because of a mutation in a particular gene,
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a causa dunha mutación nun xene,
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a protein is made that's toxic to the cell
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créase unha proteína tóxica para a célula
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and it causes these individuals to age
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o que provoca que estes suxeitos envellezan
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at about seven times the normal rate.
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sete veces máis rápido do normal.
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Let me show you a video of what that does to the cell.
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Déixenme amosarlles un vídeo sobre o que provoca na célula.
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The normal cell, if you looked at it under the microscope,
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A célula normal, vista co microscopio,
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would have a nucleus sitting in the middle of the cell,
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terá un núcleo situado no seu centro
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which is nice and round and smooth in its boundaries
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que é bonito, redondo e liso nos seus bordos
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and it looks kind of like that.
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e aseméllase a isto.
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A progeria cell, on the other hand,
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Por outro lado, a célula da proxeria
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because of this toxic protein called progerin,
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a causa da proteína, chamada proxerina,
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has these lumps and bumps in it.
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ten estes vultos e protuberancias.
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So what we would like to do after discovering this
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O que queríamos facer despois de descubrir isto,
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back in 2003
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alá no 2003,
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is to come up with a way to try to correct that.
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era atopar unha maneira de corrixilo.
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Well again, by knowing something about the molecular pathways,
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De novo, coñecendo algo das vías moleculares,
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it was possible to pick
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era posible coller
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one of those many, many compounds that might have been useful
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un destes compostos que podían ser útiles
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and try it out.
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e probalo.
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In an experiment done in cell culture
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Nun experimento "in vitro"
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and shown here in a cartoon,
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mostrado nesta animación,
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if you take that particular compound
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se se escolle ese composto particular
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and you add it to that cell that has progeria,
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e se lle engade á célula que ten proxeria,
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and you watch to see what happened,
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observen o que acontece,
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in just 72 hours, that cell becomes,
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en só 72 horas, a célula transfórmase,
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for all purposes that we can determine,
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para todos os efectos que podemos determinar,
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almost like a normal cell.
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nunha célula normal.
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Well that was exciting, but would it actually work in a real human being?
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Funcionará nunha célula humana real?
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This has led, in the space of only four years
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Isto levou, en tan só catro anos
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from the time the gene was discovered to the start of a clinical trial,
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dende que se descubriu o xene ata que empezou o ensaio clínico,
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to a test of that very compound.
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a probar ese composto.
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And the kids that you see here
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Todos os nenos que ven aquí
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all volunteered to be part of this,
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participaron voluntariamente no proceso,
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28 of them,
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28 nenos,
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and you can see as soon as the picture comes up
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pódese ver, como mostra a foto,
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that they are in fact a remarkable group of young people
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que son un grupo de xente nova
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all afflicted by this disease,
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afectado pola enfermidade,
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all looking quite similar to each other.
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que se parecen bastante entre eles.
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And instead of telling you more about it,
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Antes de falarlles máis disto,
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I'm going to invite one of them, Sam Berns from Boston,
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vou invitar a un deles, Sam Berns de Boston,
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who's here this morning, to come up on the stage
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que está aquí esta mañá, a subir ao escenario
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and tell us about his experience
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para que nos conte a súa experiencia
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as a child affected with progeria.
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como un neno afectado de proxeria.
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Sam is 15 years old. His parents, Scott Berns and Leslie Gordon,
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Sam ten 15 anos. Seus pais, Scott Berns e Leslie Gordon,
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both physicians, are here with us this morning as well.
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médicos os dous, tamén están aquí esta mañá.
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Sam, please have a seat.
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Sam, senta por favor
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
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So Sam, why don't you tell these folks
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Sam, por que non lle dis a esta xente
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what it's like being affected with this condition called progeria?
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como é estar afectado de proxeria?
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Sam Burns: Well, progeria limits me in some ways.
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Sam Burns: A proxeria limítame nalgúns aspectos.
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I cannot play sports or do physical activities,
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Non podo facer deporte ou actividades físicas,
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but I have been able to take interest in things
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pero fun capaz de facer cousas interesantes
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that progeria, luckily, does not limit.
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que por sorte a proxeria non me limita.
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But when there is something that I really do want to do
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Pero cando hai algo que realmente quero facer
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that progeria gets in the way of, like marching band
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e a proxeria se interpón no meu camiño,
como tocar nunha banda, ou arbitrar,
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or umpiring, we always find a way to do it,
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sempre atopamos a maneira de facelo,
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and that just shows that progeria isn't in control of my life.
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e isto demostra que a proxeria non controla a miña vida.
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(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
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Francis Collins: So what would you like to say to researchers
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FC: Que lles dirías aos investigadores
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here in the auditorium and others listening to this?
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que están aquí e a outros que te escoiten?
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What would you say to them both about research on progeria
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Qué lles dirías sobre a investigación da proxeria
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and maybe about other conditions as well?
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e tamén doutras doenzas?
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SB: Well, research on progeria has come so far
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SB: A investigación en proxeria avanzou moito
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in less than 15 years,
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en menos de 15 anos,
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and that just shows the drive that researchers can have
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e isto amosa a determinación que os investigadores deben ter
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to get this far, and it really means a lot
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para avanzar tanto, o cal significa moito
08:39
to myself and other kids with progeria,
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para min e para outros nenos con proxeria,
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and it shows that if that drive exists,
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e isto ensínanos que se esa determinación existe
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anybody can cure any disease,
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calquera pode curar calquera tipo de enfermidade,
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and hopefully progeria can be cured in the near future,
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e espero que a proxeria poida curarse nun futuro próximo
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and so we can eliminate those 4,000 diseases
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e que poidamos eliminar esas 4000 enfermidades
08:56
that Francis was talking about.
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das que Francis falaba.
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FC: Excellent. So Sam took the day off from school today
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FC: Xenial. Sam faltou hoxe ao instituto
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to be here, and he is — (Applause) --
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para estar aquí --(Aplausos)--
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He is, by the way, a straight-A+ student in the ninth grade
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Aínda así, é un estudante de sobresaliente de noveno grado
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in his school in Boston.
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no seu instituto de Boston.
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Please join me in thanking and welcoming Sam.
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Deámoslle as grazas a Sam.
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SB: Thank you very much. FC: Well done. Well done, buddy.
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SB: Moitas grazas. FC: Ben feito, rapaz.
09:19
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(Aplausos)
09:32
So I just want to say a couple more things
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Quero dicir un par de cousas máis
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about that particular story, and then try to generalize
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sobre esta historia e tentar xeneralizar
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how could we have stories of success
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sobre como podemos ter historias de éxito
09:39
all over the place for these diseases, as Sam says,
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para todas estas enfermidades, como dixo Sam,
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these 4,000 that are waiting for answers.
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estas 4000 enfermidades que agardan respostas.
09:45
You might have noticed that the drug
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Debedes saber que o fármaco
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that is now in clinical trial for progeria
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que se está probando para a proxeria
09:50
is not a drug that was designed for that.
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non é un fármaco deseñado para ela.
09:51
It's such a rare disease, it would be hard for a company
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É unha enfermidade tan rara que unha empresa tería moi difícil
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to justify spending hundreds of millions of dollars to generate a drug.
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xustificar o gasto de centos de millóns de dólares para producir o fármaco.
09:58
This is a drug that was developed for cancer.
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Este fármaco desenvolveuse para o cancro.
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Turned out, it didn't work very well for cancer,
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Non funcionou moi ben contra el,
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but it has exactly the right properties, the right shape,
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pero ten as propiedades exactas, a forma precisa,
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to work for progeria, and that's what's happened.
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para tratar a proxeria, e isto foi o que pasou.
10:08
Wouldn't it be great if we could do that more systematically?
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Non sería fantástico facermos isto máis sistematicamente?
10:11
Could we, in fact, encourage all the companies that are out there
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Poderiamos animar ás compañías
10:15
that have drugs in their freezers
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que teñen fármacos nos conxeladores
10:16
that are known to be safe in humans
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que sabemos que son seguros en humanos
10:19
but have never actually succeeded in terms
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pero que nunca se demostraron efectivos
10:21
of being effective for the treatments they were tried for?
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nos tratamentos para os que se deseñaron?
10:24
Now we're learning about all these new molecular pathways --
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Agora estamos aprendendo sobre estas novas vías moleculares
10:26
some of those could be repositioned or repurposed,
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algunhas das cales poderían ser reorientadas ou reutilizadas,
10:29
or whatever word you want to use, for new applications,
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ou como lle queiramos chamar, para novas aplicacións,
10:32
basically teaching old drugs new tricks.
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ensinándolles novos trucos a vellos fármacos.
10:35
That could be a phenomenal, valuable activity.
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Podería ser unha actividade extraordinaria e valiosa.
10:37
We have many discussions now between NIH and companies
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Temos moitos debates entre o Instituto Nacional da Saúde e empresas
10:40
about doing this that are looking very promising.
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sobre facer isto que tan prometedor parece.
10:43
And you could expect quite a lot to come from this.
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E temos bastantes esperanzas de que resulte.
10:45
There are quite a number of success stories one can point to
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Hai abondas historias exitosas que podemos destacar
10:48
about how this has led to major advances.
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sobre como isto comportou avances relevantes.
10:51
The first drug for HIV/AIDS
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O primeiro fármaco contra o VIH
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was not developed for HIV/AIDS.
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non se desenvolveu para o VIH.
10:54
It was developed for cancer. It was AZT.
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Foino para o cancro. Trátase do AZT.
10:57
It didn't work very well for cancer, but became
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Non funcionou contra o cancro, pero foi
10:59
the first successful antiretroviral,
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o primeiro antirretroviral exitoso,
11:01
and you can see from the table there are others as well.
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e como se ve na táboa, hai outros tamén.
11:04
So how do we actually make that a more generalizable effort?
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Como facemos este esforzo máis xeneralizable?
11:07
Well, we have to come up with a partnership
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Temos que chegar a acordos
11:10
between academia, government, the private sector,
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entre o mundo académico, o goberno, o sector privado,
11:12
and patient organizations to make that so.
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e organizacións de pacientes para facelo.
No Instituto Nacional da Saúde, creamos un novo
11:15
At NIH, we have started this new
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National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.
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Centro Nacional de Ciencias Translacionais Avanzadas.
11:20
It just started last December, and this is one of its goals.
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Comezou en decembro pasado, e este é un dos seus obxectivos.
11:23
Let me tell you another thing we could do.
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Déixenme dicirlles outra cousa que poderiamos facer
11:25
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to a test a drug
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Non sería xenial se puidésemos probar un fármaco
11:28
to see if it's effective and safe
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para ver se é efectivo e seguro
11:30
without having to put patients at risk,
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sen poñer en risco pacientes,
11:32
because that first time you're never quite sure?
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porque as primeiras veces non se está seguro?
11:35
How do we know, for instance, whether drugs are safe
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Como sabemos que un fármaco é seguro
11:37
before we give them to people? We test them on animals.
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antes de darllo a persoas? Probámolo en animais.
11:40
And it's not all that reliable, and it's costly,
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E iso non é demasiado fiable, e ademais é custoso,
11:43
and it's time-consuming.
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e consome tempo.
11:44
Suppose we could do this instead on human cells.
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Imaxinen que podemos facelo en células humanas.
11:47
You probably know, if you've been paying attention
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Se lle prestan atención á literatura científica
11:50
to some of the science literature
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probablemente saberán que
11:51
that you can now take a skin cell
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pode collerse unha célula da pel
11:52
and encourage it to become a liver cell
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e estimulala para convertela en hepática
11:55
or a heart cell or a kidney cell or a brain cell for any of us.
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ou cardíaca, ou renal ou derebral de calquera de nós.
11:58
So what if you used those cells as your test
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E se utilizamos estas células para probar
12:02
for whether a drug is going to work and whether it's going to be safe?
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se un fármaco vai ser efectivo e seguro?
12:05
Here you see a picture of a lung on a chip.
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Velaquí unha imaxe dun pulmón nun chip.
12:09
This is something created by the Wyss Institute in Boston,
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É unha creación do Wyss Institute en Boston,
12:12
and what they have done here, if we can run the little video,
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e o que fixeron, se poñemos en marcha o vídeo,
12:15
is to take cells from an individual,
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foi coller células dun individuo,
12:18
turn them into the kinds of cells that are present in the lung,
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transformalas en células que hai nos pulmóns,
12:21
and determine what would happen
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e ver que acontece
12:23
if you added to this various drug compounds
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se se engaden varios compostos
12:26
to see if they are toxic or safe.
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para ver se son seguros ou tóxicos.
12:28
You can see this chip even breathes.
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Poden ver que este chip incluso respira.
12:30
It has an air channel. It has a blood channel.
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Ten unha canle de aire e outra de sangue.
12:33
And it has cells in between
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E ten células no medio
12:35
that allow you to see what happens when you add a compound.
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que permiten ver o que acontece ao engadir un composto.
12:37
Are those cells happy or not?
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Están contentas as células ou non?
12:39
You can do this same kind of chip technology
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Pódese usar esta mesma tecnoloxía
12:42
for kidneys, for hearts, for muscles,
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para riles, corazóns, músculos,
12:44
all the places where you want to see whether a drug
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calquera órgano onde se queira ver se o fármaco
12:47
is going to be a problem, for the liver.
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vai ser un problema, para o fígado.
12:49
And ultimately, because you can do this for the individual,
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E finalmente, porque isto pode facerse para cada persoa,
12:52
we could even see this moving to the point
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podemos ver que se encamiña ata o punto
12:54
where the ability to develop and test medicines
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en que a capacidade para desenvolver e testar fármacos
12:58
will be you on a chip, what we're trying to say here is
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irá con vostedes nun chip, o que implica
13:01
the individualizing of the process of developing drugs
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a individualización do proceso para desenvolver fármacos
13:04
and testing their safety.
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e probar a súa seguridade.
13:06
So let me sum up.
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Resumindo.
13:08
We are in a remarkable moment here.
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Estamos nun momento extraordinario.
13:10
For me, at NIH now for almost 20 years,
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Para min, con case 20 anos no Instituto Nacional da Saúde,
13:12
there has never been a time where there was more excitement
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nunca houbo unha época de maior entusiasmo
13:15
about the potential that lies in front of us.
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sobre o potencial do que temos diante.
13:18
We have made all these discoveries
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Fixemos todos estes descubrimentos
13:19
pouring out of laboratories across the world.
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en laboratorios espallados polo mundo.
13:22
What do we need to capitalize on this? First of all, we need resources.
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Que fai falla para sacar proveito deles? Primeiro, recursos.
13:25
This is research that's high-risk, sometimes high-cost.
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Esta é investigación de alto risco, e ás veces de alto custo.
13:29
The payoff is enormous, both in terms of health
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A recompensa é enorme, en termos de saúde
13:31
and in terms of economic growth. We need to support that.
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e de crecemento económico. Hai que apoiala.
13:34
Second, we need new kinds of partnerships
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Segundo, precisamos novos tipos de relacións
13:36
between academia and government and the private sector
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entre o mundo académico, o goberno, o sector privado
13:38
and patient organizations, just like the one I've been describing here,
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e as organizacións de pacientes, como xa contei aquí,
13:41
in terms of the way in which we could go after repurposing new compounds.
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sobre que camiño adoptar despois da reutilización de compostos.
13:45
And third, and maybe most important, we need talent.
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E terceiro, e pode que máis importante, precisamos talento.
13:48
We need the best and the brightest
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Precisamos os mellores e máis brillantes
13:50
from many different disciplines to come and join this effort --
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de diferentes disciplinas para vir e axudar,
13:53
all ages, all different groups --
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de calquera idade, de calquera grupo,
13:56
because this is the time, folks.
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porque este é o momento, amigos.
13:58
This is the 21st-century biology that you've been waiting for,
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Esta é a bioloxía do s. XXI que estabamos a agardar,
14:01
and we have the chance to take that
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e temos a oportunidade de collela
14:04
and turn it into something which will, in fact,
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e convertela en algo
14:06
knock out disease. That's my goal.
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acabe coas enfermidades. Ese é o meu obxectivo.
14:09
I hope that's your goal.
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Agardo que tamén sexa o seu.
14:11
I think it'll be the goal of the poets and the muppets
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Penso que será o obxectivo dos poetas, marionetas,
14:13
and the surfers and the bankers
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surfeiros e banqueiros
14:15
and all the other people who join this stage
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e de todas as persoas que se unan a esta causa
14:18
and think about what we're trying to do here
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e pensen no que tentamos facer
14:19
and why it matters.
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e por qué é importante.
14:20
It matters for now. It matters as soon as possible.
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É importante para agora, para o antes posible.
14:23
If you don't believe me, just ask Sam.
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Se non me cren, pregúntenlle a Sam.
14:26
Thank you all very much.
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Moitas grazas a todos.
14:28
(Applause)
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(Aplausos)
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