Name: 【TED】Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine (Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine)
Uploaded: 2017-07-25T12:59:40.000Z
Duration: 3 min 7 s
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Translator: Timothy Covell Reviewer: Morton Bast

by chopping up a big molecule into small molecules

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?

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

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

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

and combine them together in what we call reactionware.

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

we may start to access this universal toolkit of chemistry.

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

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

at the same time, and you do the chemistry,

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

Well it requires software, it requires hardware

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

and you create the drug to treat the threat.

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

But perhaps for me the core bit going into the future

is this idea of taking your own stem cells,

and you print your own personal medicine.

And if that doesn't seem fanciful enough,

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

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【TED】Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine (Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine)

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