0:00:00my name is wearing green my lab at johns hopkins is really interested in how
0:00:04we can develop new types of technologies to treat devastating brain cancers even with the
0:00:08best surgery chemotherapy radiation still is for patient outcomes
0:00:13we note developed a new technology it is a promise for treating the season anyway
0:00:19that is
0:00:28in the challenge with brain cancer answer
0:00:35it's a cancer cells where one supplied time normal self than a mutated increment control
0:00:40let's see we have the way back serious dominoes we can illustrate this concept
0:00:45so if we have some normal cells is it is a black dominoes here and
0:00:50cells are arranged
0:00:51next to each other and by their normal on their how people look at happens
0:00:55there could be mutations that
0:00:57heartedly genetic hardly be environmental
0:00:59where someone a change in cities
0:01:01cancer cells of different colours that are normal
0:01:05these cancer cells may also help this way potential you met their be words they
0:01:11can't really tell the difference between healthy sonic answers are really of ways and consonantal
0:01:15kill everything's of the cancer but there becomes the row so you know
0:01:19you're healthy cells and get your cancer cells this is why it's
0:01:23patients might lose their hair and i'm not at the end all these other complications
0:01:26and so what we like to do is to attack just doesn't answer self an
0:01:30average healthy so let's imagine the bees balloons yourself
0:01:34this will develop the technology to send instructions results to get into whatever we want
0:01:40this is a little bit like an electrical engineer to program a computer the biomedical
0:01:44engineer we wanna sell
0:01:46we actually wanna program
0:01:48cancer cells differently then helps
0:01:52this their mission impossible we were able to use as you technology to deliver instructions
0:01:57the cells to make them change a
0:01:59what color using the same type technology we can actually have the brain cancer cells
0:02:05of this process altogether
0:02:09this approach is called gene their the instructions the got the cancer cells to do
0:02:14what we wanted to those instructions come from the end up
0:02:17which is the a particle made of plastic in the in a and it's about
0:02:21a million times smaller than this particle here in indian is divided what it is
0:02:26it can safely deliver this cargo due to the different barriers
0:02:30and then like that information go to the right self starters
0:02:38we demonstrate this now
0:02:40in human brain cancer cells in a dish and in live mice in a really
0:02:44excited about the next steps as we move this forward to facial
0:02:48this type the discovery of possible here at hopkins do the natural collaborative atmosphere where
0:02:53myself the biomedical engineer i can work closely with excellent neurosurgeon them together
0:02:59as a team we can innovate these new technologies it can make an impact page