Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

Prevoditelj: Senzos Osijek Recezent: Katarina Smetko

Organic chemists make molecules,

Organski kemičari prave molekule,

very complicated molecules,

vrlo komplicirane molekule,

by chopping up a big molecule into small molecules

tako što cijepaju velike molekule u manje

and reverse engineering.

i zatim primjenjuju obrnuti inženjering

And as a chemist,

Kao kemičar,

one of the things I wanted to ask my research group a couple of years ago is,

prije nekoliko sam godina htio pitati svoju istraživačku skupinu

could we make a really cool universal chemistry set?

možemo li napraviti jedan cool univerzalni set za kemiju?

In essence, could we "app" chemistry?

U biti, možemo li kemiju učiniti aplikacijom?

Now what would this mean, and how would we do it?

Što bi to značilo i kako bismo to učinili?

Well to start to do this,

Kako bismo započeli s time,

we took a 3D printer

uzeli smo 3D pisač

and we started to print our beakers and our test tubes on one side

i počeli ispisivati čaše i epruvete s jedne strane,

and then print the molecule at the same time on the other side

a molekule istovremeno s druge strane.

and combine them together in what we call reactionware.

Kombinirali smo ih kako bismo dobili tzv. "reactionware."

And so by printing the vessel and doing the chemistry at the same time,

Ispisivanje posude i istovremeno obavljanje kemijskih radnji

we may start to access this universal toolkit of chemistry.

moglo bi biti prvi korak prema tom univerzalnom setu za kemiju.

Now what could this mean?

Što bi to moglo značiti?

Well if we can embed biological and chemical networks like a search engine,

Kad bismo mogli ugraditi biološke i kemijske mreže poput pretraživača,

so if you have a cell that's ill that you need to cure

tako da, ako imate stanicu koja je bolesna i koju trebate liječiti,

or bacteria that you want to kill,

ili imate bakteriju koju želite ubiti,

if you have this embedded in your device

ako to imate ugrađeno u svoj uređaj u isto vrijeme,

at the same time, and you do the chemistry,

i obavite kemijske radnje,

you may be able to make drugs in a new way.

mogli biste izraditi lijekove na nov način.

So how are we doing this in the lab?

Kako mi to činimo u laboratoriju?

Well it requires software, it requires hardware

Za to je potreban softver, kao i hardver.

and it requires chemical inks.

Potrebne su i kemijske tinte.

And so the really cool bit is,

A najzanimljivija je ideja

the idea is that we want to have a universal set of inks

da želimo imati univerzalan set tinta

that we put out with the printer,

koje ćemo dati s pisačem,

and you download the blueprint, the organic chemistry for that molecule

vi učitate nacrt, organsku kemiju za tu molekulu

and you make it in the device.

i napravite je u uređaju.

And so you can make your molecule in the printer using this software.

Tako možete svoju molekulu možete načiniti u pisaču, koristeći ovaj softver.

So what could this mean?

Što bi to moglo značiti?

Well, ultimately, it could mean that you could print your own medicine.

U konačnici, moglo bi značiti da biste mogli ispisivati sami svoje lijekove.

And this is what we're doing in the lab at the moment.

To upravo činimo u laboratoriju.

But to take baby steps to get there,

Ali kako bismo činili male korake prema tome cilju,

first of all we want to look at drug design and production,

prvo želimo vidjeti oblikovanje i proizvodnju lijeka,

or drug discovery and manufacturing.

ili otkrivanje i izradu.

Because if we can manufacture it after we've discovered it,

Ako ih možemo proizvesti nakon što smo ih otkrili,

we could deploy it anywhere.

možemo ih poslati bilo kamo.

You don't need to go to the chemist anymore.

Ne morate više ići u ljekarnu.

We can print drugs at point of need.

Možemo ispisivati lijekove prema potrebi.

We can download new diagnostics.

Možemo učitavati nove dijagnostike.

Say a new super bug has emerged.

Recimo da se pojavi nov uzročnik bolesti.

You put it in your search engine,

Stavite ga u svoj pretraživač

and you create the drug to treat the threat.

i napravite lijek koji će riješiti taj problem.

So this allows you on-the-fly molecular assembly.

To vam omogućava trenutno sastavljanje molekula.

But perhaps for me the core bit going into the future

Ali za mene je bit koju ćemo razraditi u budućnosti

is this idea of taking your own stem cells,

ideja uzimanja vlastitih matičnih stanica,

with your genes and your environment,

s vlastitim genima i okolinom,

and you print your own personal medicine.

i ispisivanje vlastitih personaliziranih lijekova.

And if that doesn't seem fanciful enough,

Ako se to ne čini dovoljno nestvarno,

where do you think we're going to go?

što mislite, što ćemo sljedeće učiniti?

Well, you're going to have your own personal matter fabricator.

Imat ćemo svoj osobni proizvođač tvari.

Beam me up, Scotty.

Teleportiraj me, Scotty.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)