Allan Jones: A map of the brain

164,682 views ・ 2011-11-10

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譯者: Joan Liu 審譯者: Ana Choi
00:15
Humans have long held a fascination
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人類長久以來對人腦
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for the human brain.
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感到著迷。
00:19
We chart it, we've described it,
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我們試圖繪製它、解釋它、
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we've drawn it,
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我們已經將它畫出來、
00:24
we've mapped it.
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已經繪製了它。
00:27
Now just like the physical maps of our world
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就像是真實事件的地圖一樣,
00:30
that have been highly influenced by technology --
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繪製腦袋圖也受科技影響很深--
00:33
think Google Maps,
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像是谷哥地圖,
00:35
think GPS --
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像是衛星定位--
00:37
the same thing is happening for brain mapping
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同樣的事情在繪製腦袋圖時
00:39
through transformation.
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也同樣在發生。
00:41
So let's take a look at the brain.
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所以讓我們來瞭解一下腦袋。
00:43
Most people, when they first look at a fresh human brain,
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很多人,當他們第一次看到人腦的時候
00:46
they say, "It doesn't look what you're typically looking at
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會說:「這不是一般人家給你看腦的時候
00:49
when someone shows you a brain."
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會看到的東西。」
00:51
Typically, what you're looking at is a fixed brain. It's gray.
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大部份時候你會看到的是已經固定的腦。是灰色的。
00:54
And this outer layer, this is the vasculature,
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這外面的這一層,這是微血管,
00:56
which is incredible, around a human brain.
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圍繞在腦袋邊緣, 非常驚人。
00:58
This is the blood vessels.
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這些是血管。
01:00
20 percent of the oxygen
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從肺中得到的
01:03
coming from your lungs,
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是百分之二十的氧氣、
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20 percent of the blood pumped from your heart,
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百分之二十從你的心臟中泵出來的血液,
01:07
is servicing this one organ.
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都是供應給這個器官。
01:09
That's basically, if you hold two fists together,
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簡單的說, 如果你把你的兩個拳頭放在一起,
01:11
it's just slightly larger than the two fists.
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它僅僅比這兩個拳頭大一點點而已。
01:13
Scientists, sort of at the end of the 20th century,
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科學家在二十世紀末時
01:16
learned that they could track blood flow
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學到如何利用非侵入性的手法
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to map non-invasively
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追蹤血液流向
01:21
where activity was going on in the human brain.
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來瞭解人腦正在工作的區域。
01:24
So for example, they can see in the back part of the brain,
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舉例來說,他們可以從腦部背後
01:27
which is just turning around there.
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這樣追蹤來到這裡。
01:29
There's the cerebellum; that's keeping you upright right now.
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這是小腦,就是讓你現在保持著頭上腳下姿勢的東西。
01:31
It's keeping me standing. It's involved in coordinated movement.
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它跟協調性動作有關,讓我現在可以站著。
01:34
On the side here, this is temporal cortex.
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在這裡是顳葉皮層。
01:37
This is the area where primary auditory processing --
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這裡跟聽覺處理有關:
01:40
so you're hearing my words,
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就是說你現在正在聽我講話,
01:42
you're sending it up into higher language processing centers.
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你把這個資訊送到語言處理中心。
01:44
Towards the front of the brain
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在腦的前面
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is the place in which all of the more complex thought, decision making --
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是這個更複雜、跟做決定有關的東西。
01:49
it's the last to mature in late adulthood.
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它是最晚成熟的部位,直到成年時期才發育完成。
01:53
This is where all your decision-making processes are going on.
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這是你腦袋做所有決定的地方。
01:56
It's the place where you're deciding right now
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這是你現在正在決定
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you probably aren't going to order the steak for dinner.
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你晚上是不是要點牛排當晚餐的地方。
02:01
So if you take a deeper look at the brain,
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所以如果你更進一步地看我們的腦袋,
02:03
one of the things, if you look at it in cross-section,
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如果你看這個切片圖,
02:05
what you can see
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你會看到
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is that you can't really see a whole lot of structure there.
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這邊沒有很多結構。
02:10
But there's actually a lot of structure there.
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但事實上這邊是有很多結構的。
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It's cells and it's wires all wired together.
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這些是細胞被串聯在一起。
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So about a hundred years ago,
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大概在一百年前,
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some scientists invented a stain that would stain cells.
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一些科學家發明了一個可以染細胞的染劑。
02:18
And that's shown here in the the very light blue.
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在這裡可以看到淡淡的藍色。
02:21
You can see areas
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你可以看到有些區域
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where neuronal cell bodies are being stained.
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有著被染色的細胞。
02:25
And what you can see is it's very non-uniform. You see a lot more structure there.
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但你也可以看到它並不規律。你可以看到更多的結構。
02:28
So the outer part of that brain
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在腦袋的外層
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is the neocortex.
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是大腦皮層。
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It's one continuous processing unit, if you will.
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你可以說它是一個連續的單位。
02:35
But you can also see things underneath there as well.
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但你也可以看到在它下面還有很多其他的結構。
02:37
And all of these blank areas
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而這些空白的區域
02:39
are the areas in which the wires are running through.
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就是連接網絡經過的地方。
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They're probably less cell dense.
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這些區域的細胞密度有可能比較低。
02:43
So there's about 86 billion neurons in our brain.
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所以我們腦袋中有86億個神經元。
02:47
And as you can see, they're very non-uniformly distributed.
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而且就像你們看到的,他們沒有非常規律地分佈。
02:50
And how they're distributed really contributes
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而他們如何分佈的
02:52
to their underlying function.
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事實上和他們的功能有關。
02:54
And of course, as I mentioned before,
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而且就像我之前提到的,
02:56
since we can now start to map brain function,
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因為我們已經開始繪製腦袋功能解析圖了,
02:59
we can start to tie these into the individual cells.
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我們可以試圖將這些細胞連接起來。
03:02
So let's take a deeper look.
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讓我們更進一步地觀察。
03:04
Let's look at neurons.
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讓我們看看這些神經元。
03:06
So as I mentioned, there are 86 billion neurons.
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就像我剛剛說的,我們有86億神經元。
03:08
There are also these smaller cells as you'll see.
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你們還可以看到還有這些更小的細胞。
03:10
These are support cells -- astrocytes glia.
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這些是支持細胞, 叫作星狀膠細胞。
03:12
And the nerves themselves
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但接收到訊息的
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are the ones who are receiving input.
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是神經本身。
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They're storing it, they're processing it.
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它們將訊息儲存並作處理。
03:19
Each neuron is connected via synapses
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每個神經元可經由突觸
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to up to 10,000 other neurons in your brain.
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連接到最多一萬個其它也在腦部的神經元。
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And each neuron itself
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且每一個神經元
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is largely unique.
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都有它的獨特性。
03:30
The unique character of both individual neurons
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單一神經元和
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and neurons within a collection of the brain
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某些聚在同一區域的神經元的獨特性
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are driven by fundamental properties
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是源於基本的
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of their underlying biochemistry.
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生化特性。
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These are proteins.
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也就是蛋白質。
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They're proteins that are controlling things like ion channel movement.
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蛋白質控制像是離子通道輸送功能這類的事情。
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They're controlling who nervous system cells partner up with.
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蛋白質也決定神經系統與什麼東西合作。
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And they're controlling
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基本上蛋白質控制了
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basically everything that the nervous system has to do.
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所有與神經系統有關係的東西。
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So if we zoom in to an even deeper level,
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所以如果我們更深入地看,
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all of those proteins
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這些蛋白質
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are encoded by our genomes.
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是由我們的基因所決定的。
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We each have 23 pairs of chromosomes.
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我們有23對染色體。
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We get one from mom, one from dad.
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其中一條來自於母親,另一條來自父親。
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And on these chromosomes
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在這些染色體上,
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are roughly 25,000 genes.
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大約有25,000個基因。
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They're encoded in the DNA.
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這些基因被寫在DNA裡面。
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And the nature of a given cell
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而細胞本質
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driving its underlying biochemistry
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這些基層的生化組成,
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is dictated by which of these 25,000 genes
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就是由這25,000個基因
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are turned on
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來決定何時被啓動
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and at what level they're turned on.
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及如何被啓動的。
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And so our project
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所以我們的計畫
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is seeking to look at this readout,
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就是研究這些結果,
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understanding which of these 25,000 genes is turned on.
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試圖瞭解這25,000個基因中的哪一些是被啓動的。
04:30
So in order to undertake such a project,
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所以要做這樣的實驗,
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we obviously need brains.
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我們明顯地需要腦袋。
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So we sent our lab technician out.
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所以我們派了實驗室技師
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We were seeking normal human brains.
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來幫我們搜集正常的人腦。
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What we actually start with
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我們從法醫的辦公室
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is a medical examiner's office.
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出發。
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This a place where the dead are brought in.
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這是一個死人會被帶到的地方。
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We are seeking normal human brains.
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我們想要正常的人腦。
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There's a lot of criteria by which we're selecting these brains.
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我們對我們需要的腦袋有很多要求。
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We want to make sure
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我們需要確定
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that we have normal humans between the ages of 20 to 60,
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我們得到的腦袋是在20到60歲之間、
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they died a somewhat natural death
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是自然死的、
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with no injury to the brain,
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沒有任何腦部傷害、
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no history of psychiatric disease,
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沒有任何心裡疾病、
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no drugs on board --
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沒有長期用藥--
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we do a toxicology workup.
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我們會要做一系列的毒物檢查。
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And we're very careful
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且我們要非常謹慎地
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about the brains that we do take.
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對待我們要拿的腦袋。
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We're also selecting for brains
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我們選擇
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in which we can get the tissue,
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可以從中拿到組織的腦袋,
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we can get consent to take the tissue
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且我們需要在死亡後24小時內
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within 24 hours of time of death.
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拿到取組織的許可。
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Because what we're trying to measure, the RNA --
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因為我們想要測量的RNA(核糖核酸)
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which is the readout from our genes --
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代表著各個基因的表現量--
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is very labile,
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這是非常不穩定的,
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and so we have to move very quickly.
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所以我們需要很快的速度完成實驗。
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One side note on the collection of brains:
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另外一個值得一提的是:
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because of the way that we collect,
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因為我們這樣的做法,
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and because we require consent,
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也就是我們需要得到許可,
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we actually have a lot more male brains than female brains.
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我們得到的男性腦袋遠多於女性腦袋。
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Males are much more likely to die an accidental death in the prime of their life.
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男性比女性更有可能在壯年時期死於意外事件。
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And men are much more likely
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而且男性比女性
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to have their significant other, spouse, give consent
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更容易取得他的重要伴侶、另一半的許可
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than the other way around.
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願意讓我們拿他的腦袋。
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(Laughter)
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(笑聲)
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So the first thing that we do at the site of collection
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在我們取到樣本後的第一件事情
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is we collect what's called an MR.
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就是取得我們叫作MR的東西。
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This is magnetic resonance imaging -- MRI.
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這是一張MRI也就是核磁共振影像。
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It's a standard template by which we're going to hang the rest of this data.
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這是一張基準圖,我們用它來跟我們取得的影像做比較。
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So we collect this MR.
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我們取得這個叫MR的東西。
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And you can think of this as our satellite view for our map.
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你可以把這個想成是我們想要繪製的地圖的衛星圖。
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The next thing we do
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接下來我們要做的是
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is we collect what's called a diffusion tensor imaging.
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取得一個叫做彌散張量圖的東西。
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This maps the large cabling in the brain.
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這可以幫忙繪製腦袋中比較明顯的連結。
06:12
And again, you can think of this
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你可以把這個想像成
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as almost mapping our interstate highways, if you will.
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地圖上的高速公路。
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The brain is removed from the skull,
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從頭骨中取出腦袋後,
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and then it's sliced into one-centimeter slices.
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我們將之切成約一公分後的切片。
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And those are frozen solid,
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這些切片冷凍後
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and they're shipped to Seattle.
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被送到西雅圖。
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And in Seattle, we take these --
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在西雅圖,我們會拿到這個,
06:27
this is a whole human hemisphere --
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這是整個人腦半球,
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and we put them into what's basically a glorified meat slicer.
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然後把它放在一個基本上是切肉機的東西。
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There's a blade here that's going to cut across
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這邊有刀片,可以從組織中
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a section of the tissue
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切出一部份
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and transfer it to a microscope slide.
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然後將它放到顯微鏡玻片上。
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We're going to then apply one of those stains to it,
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用染劑將之染色後
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and we scan it.
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就可以掃描了。
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And then what we get is our first mapping.
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我們就可以得到第一張圖。
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So this is where experts come in
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這裡是專業學者來
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and they make basic anatomic assignments.
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將基本的結構標示出來的時候。
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You could consider this state boundaries, if you will,
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你可以把這個想像成各州的界限,
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those pretty broad outlines.
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就是那些很容易劃分的界限。
06:53
From this, we're able to then fragment that brain into further pieces,
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從這裡,我們可以開始將腦袋進一步分成幾個小部份,
06:57
which then we can put on a smaller cryostat.
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然後我們可以把這些部份分開存放於低溫存放器中。
06:59
And this is just showing this here --
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這就是在做這件事情:
07:01
this frozen tissue, and it's being cut.
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這是冷凍組織切片的過程。
07:03
This is 20 microns thin, so this is about a baby hair's width.
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這是20微米厚的切片,大約跟嬰兒頭髮一樣厚。
07:06
And remember, it's frozen.
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而且別忘了,這是冷凍的。
07:08
And so you can see here,
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所以在這裡你可以看到,
07:10
old-fashioned technology of the paintbrush being applied.
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古早的水彩筆方法被運用在這上面。
07:12
We take a microscope slide.
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我們拿一片玻片,
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Then we very carefully melt onto the slide.
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很小心地將它熔在另一片玻片上。
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This will then go onto a robot
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然後讓機器人
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that's going to apply one of those stains to it.
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加入染劑。
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And our anatomists are going to go in and take a deeper look at this.
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然後我們的解剖學家要更進一步的解析這個樣本。
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So again this is what they can see under the microscope.
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這是我們在顯微鏡下看到的東西。
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You can see collections and configurations
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你可以看到一些
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of large and small cells
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大大小小的細胞
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in clusters and various places.
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聚集在各處的一些構造。
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And from there it's routine. They understand where to make these assignments.
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從這裡開始就是例行事務。這些學者知道各個結構應該在哪裡。
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And they can make basically what's a reference atlas.
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他們可以建立一個像是圖鑒的東西。
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This is a more detailed map.
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就是一個更精準的地圖。
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Our scientists then use this
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我們的科學家利用這個資訊
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to go back to another piece of that tissue
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再回到原本的樣本
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and do what's called laser scanning microdissection.
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並做雷射切割。
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So the technician takes the instructions.
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技師得到這個指令,
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They scribe along a place there.
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他們在這裡劃線,
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And then the laser actually cuts.
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也就是雷射切割的地方。
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You can see that blue dot there cutting. And that tissue falls off.
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你可以看到這些雷射切割的藍點,然後整個組織會被切下。
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You can see on the microscope slide here,
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你可以從這個影片看到
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that's what's happening in real time.
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顯微玻片上發生的事情。
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There's a container underneath that's collecting that tissue.
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在這個下面有個桶子會接住所有切下的組織。
08:08
We take that tissue,
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我們利用一些簡單的技術
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we purify the RNA out of it
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將這個組織中的
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using some basic technology,
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RNA純化,
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and then we put a florescent tag on it.
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然後加上螢光顯色。
08:16
We take that tagged material
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我們將顯色的東西
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and we put it on to something called a microarray.
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放到一個叫做芯片的東西上。
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Now this may look like a bunch of dots to you,
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你們可能會覺得這看起來像是一堆點點,
08:23
but each one of these individual dots
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但這上面每一個點
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is actually a unique piece of the human genome
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都代表著人類基因的一個片段。
08:27
that we spotted down on glass.
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每個片段都被我們點在玻片上。
08:29
This has roughly 60,000 elements on it,
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這上面大約有60,000個元素,
08:32
so we repeatedly measure various genes
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所以我們一直重複著測量
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of the 25,000 genes in the genome.
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基因組中25,000個基因的表現量。
08:37
And when we take a sample and we hybridize it to it,
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當我們拿一個樣本並將它跟芯片中的片段配對,
08:40
we get a unique fingerprint, if you will,
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我們可以得到一個像是指紋般特殊的組合,
08:42
quantitatively of what genes are turned on in that sample.
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可以告訴我們樣本中哪些基因是被啓動的。
08:45
Now we do this over and over again,
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我們對每一個我們拿到的腦袋
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this process for any given brain.
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重複這件事情。
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We're taking over a thousand samples for each brain.
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我們可以從一個腦袋中取得超過一千個樣本。
08:53
This area shown here is an area called the hippocampus.
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這個部位叫作海馬迴。
08:56
It's involved in learning and memory.
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它跟學習和記憶有關。
08:58
And it contributes to about 70 samples
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在我們的一千個樣本中,
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of those thousand samples.
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它大概佔了七十個。
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So each sample gets us about 50,000 data points
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所以我們大約有一千個樣本,
09:07
with repeat measurements, a thousand samples.
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每個樣本可以給我們大約50,000個點。
09:10
So roughly, we have 50 million data points
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所以每一個腦袋
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for a given human brain.
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我們大約有五千萬個點。
09:14
We've done right now
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目前我們大概做了
09:16
two human brains-worth of data.
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兩個人腦多的數據。
09:18
We've put all of that together
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我們把這些數據
09:20
into one thing,
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合成一體,
09:22
and I'll show you what that synthesis looks like.
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且我會給你們看我們怎麼做的。
09:24
It's basically a large data set of information
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基本上就是一個很大的數據組,
09:27
that's all freely available to any scientist around the world.
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讓世界上所有科學家都可以用的數據。
09:30
They don't even have to log in to come use this tool,
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他們不需要登入就可以使用、
09:33
mine this data, find interesting things out with this.
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挖掘、尋找他們想要的東西。
09:37
So here's the modalities that we put together.
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這是我們目前建構出來的模型。
09:40
You'll start to recognize these things from what we've collected before.
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你們會開始認識這些我們蒐集來的東西。
09:43
Here's the MR. It provides the framework.
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這是MR,它給我們一個骨架。
09:45
There's an operator side on the right that allows you to turn,
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在右邊這裡可以控制讓圖轉動,
09:48
it allows you to zoom in,
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可以讓你放大,
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it allows you to highlight individual structures.
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也可以將特定的區域上色。
09:53
But most importantly,
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但更重要的是,
09:55
we're now mapping into this anatomic framework,
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我們是從這樣的解剖骨架來繪製我們的圖,
09:58
which is a common framework for people to understand where genes are turned on.
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一個人類用來瞭解基因在何處被啓動的骨架。
10:01
So the red levels
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這些紅色的
10:03
are where a gene is turned on to a great degree.
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是基因表現量很高的地方。
10:05
Green is the sort of cool areas where it's not turned on.
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綠色是基因沒有被啓動的地方。
10:08
And each gene gives us a fingerprint.
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而每一個基因給我們一個類似指紋的東西。
10:10
And remember that we've assayed all the 25,000 genes in the genome
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別忘了我們已經對基因組裡面25,000個基因做了這樣的實驗,
10:15
and have all of that data available.
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所以我們有所有基因的資料。
10:19
So what can scientists learn about this data?
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那, 科學家們可以從這學到什麼?
10:21
We're just starting to look at this data ourselves.
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我們也是才剛開始瞭解這些資料的。
10:24
There's some basic things that you would want to understand.
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有一些較基本的是你們可能會想要知道的。
10:27
Two great examples are drugs,
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兩個很棒的例子是藥物:
10:29
Prozac and Wellbutrin.
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百憂解和Wellbutrin(抗憂鬱藥物)。
10:31
These are commonly prescribed antidepressants.
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這些是常被用來治療憂鬱的藥物。
10:34
Now remember, we're assaying genes.
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別忘了我們是在瞭解基因。
10:36
Genes send the instructions to make proteins.
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基因告訴我們的身體要製造蛋白質。
10:39
Proteins are targets for drugs.
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蛋白質是藥物的目標。
10:41
So drugs bind to proteins
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也就是說藥物和蛋白質結合
10:43
and either turn them off, etc.
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然後可以抑制蛋白質作用之類的。
10:45
So if you want to understand the action of drugs,
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所以如果你想要瞭解藥物是如何運作的,
10:47
you want to understand how they're acting in the ways you want them to,
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你需要瞭解藥物是怎麼樣做到你想要它做的事,
10:50
and also in the ways you don't want them to.
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和你不希望藥物做的事。
10:52
In the side effect profile, etc.,
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像是副作用之類的。
10:54
you want to see where those genes are turned on.
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你想要知道各個基因是如何被啓動的。
10:56
And for the first time, we can actually do that.
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而且是有史以来,我們真的可以這麼做。
10:58
We can do that in multiple individuals that we've assayed too.
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且我們可以對不只一個樣本怎麼做。
11:01
So now we can look throughout the brain.
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所以現在我們可以來看這個腦袋。
11:04
We can see this unique fingerprint.
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我們可以看這些特異的指紋。
11:06
And we get confirmation.
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我們可以確認它。
11:08
We get confirmation that, indeed, the gene is turned on --
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我們可以確認某些特定的基因是被啓動的:
11:11
for something like Prozac,
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像是百憂解這樣的東西,
11:13
in serotonergic structures, things that are already known be affected --
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它有羥色胺結構、我們已經知道會有影響,
11:16
but we also get to see the whole thing.
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但我們在這裡也可以看到整個架構。
11:18
We also get to see areas that no one has ever looked at before,
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我們可以看到以前看不到的東西,
11:20
and we see these genes turned on there.
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我們可以看到這些基因被啓動。
11:22
It's as interesting a side effect as it could be.
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這也有可能是很有趣的副作用。
11:25
One other thing you can do with such a thing
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另外一個你可以做的事是
11:27
is you can, because it's a pattern matching exercise,
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你可以從這些資料中找出相關的部份。
11:30
because there's unique fingerprint,
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因為這樣的指紋是獨特的,
11:32
we can actually scan through the entire genome
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我們可以掃過整個基因組
11:34
and find other proteins
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並尋找其他有相似指紋
11:36
that show a similar fingerprint.
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的蛋白質。
11:38
So if you're in drug discovery, for example,
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舉例來說如果你是在做藥物研發,
11:41
you can go through
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你可以
11:43
an entire listing of what the genome has on offer
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掃過整個基因組
11:45
to find perhaps better drug targets and optimize.
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然後試著找到更好的藥物的目標而從中優化。
11:49
Most of you are probably familiar
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在座的各位
11:51
with genome-wide association studies
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可能對於掃描整個基因組的觀念
11:53
in the form of people covering in the news
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來自於新聞中一些字句。
11:56
saying, "Scientists have recently discovered the gene or genes
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像是:「科學家最近找到一個基因
11:59
which affect X."
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會影響X。」
12:01
And so these kinds of studies
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這樣的研究
12:03
are routinely published by scientists
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常常被科學家發表。
12:05
and they're great. They analyze large populations.
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且這是很好的。他們可以分析很大的族群。
12:07
They look at their entire genomes,
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他們可以看整個基因組,
12:09
and they try to find hot spots of activity
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然後試圖找到一些基因
12:11
that are linked causally to genes.
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容易影響的地方。
12:14
But what you get out of such an exercise
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但事實上這樣的研究
12:16
is simply a list of genes.
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只能找到一張基因列表。
12:18
It tells you the what, but it doesn't tell you the where.
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它告訴你什麼基因,但沒辦法告訴你在哪裡表現。
12:21
And so it's very important for those researchers
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所以對這些研究者來說,
12:24
that we've created this resource.
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我們就是給他們一個資源。
12:26
Now they can come in
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現在他們可以來
12:28
and they can start to get clues about activity.
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並開始尋找這些表現的痕跡。
12:30
They can start to look at common pathways --
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他們現在可以去看是不是有共同的路徑,
12:32
other things that they simply haven't been able to do before.
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是不是有其它他們沒有找到的東西。
12:36
So I think this audience in particular
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所以我想在座的各位
12:39
can understand the importance of individuality.
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可以理解個體差異的重要性。
12:42
And I think every human,
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我認為每一個人
12:44
we all have different genetic backgrounds,
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都有不一樣的基因背景,
12:48
we all have lived separate lives.
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我們都有不一樣的人生。
12:50
But the fact is
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但事實上,
12:52
our genomes are greater than 99 percent similar.
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我們的基因組有超過百分之九十九是一樣的。
12:55
We're similar at the genetic level.
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在基因的層面下我們非常相似。
12:58
And what we're finding
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而我們現在看到的是,
13:00
is actually, even at the brain biochemical level,
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就算是在腦袋的生化層面上,
13:02
we are quite similar.
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我們也是非常相似的。
13:04
And so this shows it's not 99 percent,
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所以這代表著不是百分之九十九,
13:06
but it's roughly 90 percent correspondence
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但大約百分之九十
13:08
at a reasonable cutoff,
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是個非常合理的範圍,
13:11
so everything in the cloud is roughly correlated.
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也就是說大部份的東西是相似的。
13:13
And then we find some outliers,
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然後我們會找到一些「局外人」,
13:15
some things that lie beyond the cloud.
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就是那些不在範圍內的數據。
13:18
And those genes are interesting,
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且這些基因是很有趣的,
13:20
but they're very subtle.
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但他們不是很明顯的。
13:22
So I think it's an important message
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所以我想這是我今天要說的
13:25
to take home today
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一件很重要的事情
13:27
that even though we celebrate all of our differences,
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就是就算我們認為我們之間很不同,
13:30
we are quite similar
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但事實上我們是很相似的,
13:32
even at the brain level.
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就算是在腦袋層面也是。
13:34
Now what do those differences look like?
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這些相異處是什麼呢?
13:36
This is an example of a study that we did
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這是一個我們做的
13:38
to follow up and see what exactly those differences were --
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用來瞭解這些相異處是什麼的研究。
13:40
and they're quite subtle.
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這些相異處是很不明顯的。
13:42
These are things where genes are turned on in an individual cell type.
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像是各種不同細胞的哪些基因被啓動了。
13:46
These are two genes that we found as good examples.
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這是我們找到兩個比較好的例子。
13:49
One is called RELN -- it's involved in early developmental cues.
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一個是RELN,它跟早期發育有關。
13:52
DISC1 is a gene
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DISC1也是個基因,
13:54
that's deleted in schizophrenia.
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是在精神分裂患者中被移除的基因。
13:56
These aren't schizophrenic individuals,
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這些不是精神分裂患者,
13:58
but they do show some population variation.
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但他們也有個體差異。
14:01
And so what you're looking at here
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所以你們現在看到的是
14:03
in donor one and donor four,
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第一個捐贈者和第四個捐贈者。
14:05
which are the exceptions to the other two,
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它們的基因跟另外兩個不同,
14:07
that genes are being turned on
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他們的基因
14:09
in a very specific subset of cells.
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在非常特定的細胞被啓動。
14:11
It's this dark purple precipitate within the cell
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這些細胞內的深紫色的沈澱物
14:14
that's telling us a gene is turned on there.
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告訴我們那裡有哪些基因被啓動。
14:17
Whether or not that's due
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但到底是跟個體基因行有關
14:19
to an individual's genetic background or their experiences,
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還是跟他們的經驗有關,
14:21
we don't know.
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我們不知道。
14:23
Those kinds of studies require much larger populations.
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這樣的研究需要更多更多的個體。
14:28
So I'm going to leave you with a final note
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所以我要跟你們說的最後一件事是
14:30
about the complexity of the brain
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腦袋有多麼的複雜
14:33
and how much more we have to go.
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和我們還還有多少研究需要做。
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I think these resources are incredibly valuable.
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我認為這些資源非常重要。
14:37
They give researchers a handle
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這些資源讓研究者
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on where to go.
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知道接下來要怎麼做。
14:41
But we only looked at a handful of individuals at this point.
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但目前我們只看了一些個體。
14:44
We're certainly going to be looking at more.
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我們將來當然會看更多。
14:46
I'll just close by saying
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我最後只能說
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that the tools are there,
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我們需要的工具已經有了,
14:50
and this is truly an unexplored, undiscovered continent.
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而且這是一個還沒被瞭解、還沒被研究的課題。
14:54
This is the new frontier, if you will.
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這是一個新推進。
14:58
And so for those who are undaunted,
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所以給那些沒被嚇倒
15:00
but humbled by the complexity of the brain,
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但仍然對腦袋很感興趣的各位,
15:02
the future awaits.
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未來就在此。
15:04
Thanks.
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謝謝。
15:06
(Applause)
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