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Some common life-saving medicines, such as insulin, are made of proteins so large and fragile that they need to be injected instead of ingested as pills. But a new generation of medicine — made from smaller, more durable proteins known as peptides — is on its way. In a quick, informative talk, molecular engineer and TED Fellow Christopher Bahl explains how he's using computational design to create powerful peptides that could one day neutralize the flu, protect against botulism poisoning and even stop cancer cells from growing.
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New type of medicine.
Informative , great work sir. ,✌️
Great content. Keep it up! Would you like to be YouTube friends? 🙂
Pure genius.
Hopefully this will bring us new medicines for conditions that haven’t been able to be well treated by traditional pharmaceuticals. I hope for myself and many others who suffer from untreatable, disabling conditions….of course, that means someone will have to study these conditions.
longevity escape velocity is near, singularity is near. – Ray Kurzweil
I would love to attend one of these.
Cool it’s amazing
Totally awesome! When people keeping on going on about the gloom and doom of the future they should stop and watch exciting things like this.
Wow great presentation! This is very interesting!
But…..the pharmacy maffia still wants to make that 450 billion a year ..so….yeah basically that means that you gonna pay for it big time..
This sounds great! Congrats!
Beautiful!
Amazing. Genius stuff.
The woman with black hair and glasses at 2:24 be like:
What u trying to say