TED演讲:在体内寻找癌细胞的小颗粒(1)

In the space that used to house one transistor, we can now fit one billion. 在以前,可以放置一个晶体管的空间,现在可以放10亿个。 That made it so that a computer the size of an entire room now fits in your pocket. 这导致曾经占据了一整个房间的电脑,现在可以放在你的口袋里。 You might say the future is small. 也许你会说,未来东西都会越来越小。 As an engineer, I'm inspired by...

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TED演讲:在体内寻找癌细胞的小颗粒(3)

In my lab, we recently made a cancer nanodetector 在我的实验室,我们最近研制出了一种癌症纳米检测器, that is so small that it could travel into the body and look for tumors. 小到可以进入全身血液循环并寻找肿瘤。 We designed it to listen for tumor invasion: 我们设计它用于监听肿瘤的侵袭: the orchestra of chemical signals that tumors need to make to spread. 即肿瘤扩散所需要的化...

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TED演讲:在体内寻找癌细胞的小颗粒(4)

Alright, where are we going with this? 那好,我们现在进展如何呢? What I'm going to tell you next, 我接下来要告诉你们的, as a lifelong researcher, represents a dream of mine. 作为一个终身的研究人员,代表了我的一个梦想。 I can't say that's it's a promise; it's a dream. 我不敢说那是一个诺言;这是一个梦想。 But I think we all have to have dreams to keep us ...

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TED演讲:在体内寻找癌细胞的小颗粒(2)

Now as engineers, we think of this as straight-up miniaturization. 作为工程师,我们认为这个就是直接微型化。 You took a big thing and you made it little. 你带来一个大东西并且把它变小。 But what I told you before about computers was that they transformed our lives 但是我之前提到了电脑改变了我们的生活, when they became small enough for us to take them everywhere. 它们小到我们...

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