イメージが浮かばない1本です。
多分、決定的に、化学の基礎知識がわたしにないんでしょうね。
分子をつくっちゃう3Dプリンタ？
そんな小さいの作っちゃうんだ。。
それが各家庭にあれば、という前提の話しだよね。。？違う。。？
でもまあ、
化学・科学にまつわる英語の語彙に親しんでみるのもいいか♪
という気分で、聞いて・読んでみましょう♪
短いしね。3分です。
★TED
http://www.ted.com/talks/lee_cronin_print_your_own_medicine.html
★Youtube
http://youtu.be/mAEqvn7B2Qg
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Organic chemists make molecules, very complicated molecules,
by chopping up a big molecule into small molecules and reverse engineering.
And as a chemist, 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?
In essence, could we "app" chemistry?
・universal 一般的な，普遍的な，例外なく当てはまる; 広く行われている.
用例 a universal rule 一般法則.
万能の、というイミもある。ここは、こっちの意味ですね。
字幕は「なんにでも使える」となっています。
Now what would this mean, and how would we do it?
Well to start to do this,
we took a 3D printer 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
.・reactionware 字幕で「反応容器」
Now what could this mean?
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 or bacteria that you want to kill,
if you have this embedded in your device at the same time,
and you do the chemistry, you may be able to make drugs in a new way.
・embed 〈ものを〉〔…の中に〕はめ込む，埋める 〔in〕《★通例受身で用いる》
So how are we doing this in the lab?
Well it requires software, it requires hardware and it requires chemical inks.
And so the really cool bit is, the idea is that we want to have a universal set of inks that we put out with the printer,
and you download the blueprint, the organic chemistry for that molecule and you make it in the device.
And so you can make your molecule in the printer using this software.
So what could this mean?
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.
But to take baby steps to get there,
first of all we want to look at drug design and production, or drug discovery and manufacturing.
Because if we can manufacture it after we've discovered it,
we could deploy it anywhere.
You don't need to go to the chemist anymore.
We can print drugs at point of need.
We can download new diagnostics.
Say a new super bug has emerged.
You put it in your search engine, and you create the drug to treat the threat.
So this allows you on-the-fly molecular assembly.
・deploy 〈部隊・兵力などを〉展開する，配置する.
用例 deploy troops for battle 軍隊を戦闘配備する.
・new super bug 字幕より「新種の薬剤耐性菌」
・on the fly アクセントon the flý 飛んで, 飛行中で・ (忙しくて)飛び回って、急いで.字幕では「その場で」
・assembly (社交・宗教などの特別の目的の)集会，会合，会議.
用例 summon an assembly 会議を召集する
もういっこの意味、(部品の)組み立て.
今回はこちらの意味ですね。両方の意味でよく出てきますね。
But perhaps for me the core bit going into the future is this idea of taking your own stem cells,
with your genes and your environment, and you print your own personal medicine.
And if that doesn't seem fanciful enough,
where do you think we're going to go?
Well, you're going to have your own personal matter fabricator.
Beam me up, Scotty.
・fabricator 製作者、matter fabricatorは字幕で「物質構成装置」
(Applause)
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やぱり、よくわかりません！
でも、一文一文は、字幕に助けてもらえば、なんとか、主語・動詞と、追えますね。
今回はこれでよしとします。
あとは音読とシャドウイング、いってみよう。