Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

Translator: Nika Kotnik Reviewer: Matej Divjak

Organic chemists make molecules,

Kemiki organske kemije izdelujejo molekule,

very complicated molecules,

zelo zapletene molekule,

by chopping up a big molecule into small molecules

tako, da razkosajo veliko molekulo v majhne molekule

and reverse engineering.

in obratno.

And as a chemist,

In kot kemik,

je bila ena od stvari, ki sem jih hotel vprašati svojo raziskovalno ekipo nekaj let nazaj,

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

could we make a really cool universal chemistry set?

ali bi lahko naredili res kul univerzalen set za kemijo?

In essence, could we "app" chemistry?

V bistvu, bi lahko naredili aplikacijo za kemijo?

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

Kaj bi to pomenilo in kako bi to naredili?

Well to start to do this,

No, da bi začeli s tem,

we took a 3D printer

smo vzeli 3D tiskalnik

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

in začeli smo si tiskati čaše in epruvete na eni strani

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

in potem hkrati tiskati molekule na drugi strani

and combine them together in what we call reactionware.

in jih združili s procesom imenovanim "reactionware".

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

In tako bi s tiskanjem posod in kemije hkrati

we may start to access this universal toolkit of chemistry.

morda lahko začeli z doseganjem tega univerzalnega seta za kemijo.

Now what could this mean?

In kaj bi to pomenilo?

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

No, če lahko vgradimo biološka in kemična omrežja kot iskalnik,

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

tako, da če imate celico, ki je bolna in jo morate pozdraviti,

or bacteria that you want to kill,

ali bakterijo, ki jo hočete ubiti,

if you have this embedded in your device

če imate to obenem vgrajeno v svojo napravo

at the same time, and you do the chemistry,

in sprožite kemični proces,

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

boste morda lahko izdelovali zdravila na nov način.

So how are we doing this in the lab?

Kako torej to počnemo v laboratoriju?

Well it requires software, it requires hardware

Potrebna je programska oprema, potrebna je strojna oprema

and it requires chemical inks.

in potrebna so kemična črnila.

And so the really cool bit is,

In zares kul del je

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

ideja, da hočemo imeti univerzalni set črnil,

that we put out with the printer,

ki jih prodamo skupaj s tiskalnikom

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

in vi si prenesete načrt, organsko kemijo za to molekulo

and you make it in the device.

in jo naredite v napravi.

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

In tako lahko naredite svojo molekulo v tiskalniku z uporabo te programske opreme.

So what could this mean?

Kaj bi to lahko pomenilo?

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

No, navsezadnje bi lahko pomenilo, da bi si natisnili svoje zdravilo.

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

In to trenutno počnemo v laboratoriju.

But to take baby steps to get there,

Ampak, da bi do tega prišli z majhnimi koraki,

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

moramo najprej pogledati oblikovanje in izdelavo zdravil,

or drug discovery and manufacturing.

ali pa odkrivanje zdravil in proizvodnjo.

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

Ker, če jo lahko proizvedemo, potem ko smo jo odkrili,

we could deploy it anywhere.

bi jo lahko namestili kamorkoli.

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

Ni nam treba več k farmacevtu.

We can print drugs at point of need.

Lahko natisnemo zdravila, ko jih potrebujemo.

We can download new diagnostics.

Lahko naložimo nove diagnostične metode.

Say a new super bug has emerged.

Recimo, da se pojavi nova superbakterija.

You put it in your search engine,

Daš jo v svoj iskalnik

and you create the drug to treat the threat.

in ustvariš zdravilo za zdravljenje te grožnje.

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

Tako ti to dovoljuje sprotno sestavljanje molekul.

But perhaps for me the core bit going into the future

Ampak mogoče je zame glavni del za prihodnost

is this idea of taking your own stem cells,

ta ideja, da bi vzeli svoje izvorne celice

with your genes and your environment,

z vašimi geni in vašim okoljem

and you print your own personal medicine.

in si natisnili svoje lastno zdravilo.

And if that doesn't seem fanciful enough,

in če se vam to ne zdi dovolj domišljeno,

where do you think we're going to go?

kam mislite, da bomo šli?

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

No, imeli boste svoj lastni izdelovalec žive snovi.

Beam me up, Scotty.

Prežarči me, Scotty.

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