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Clips from Pure Genius - Lift Me Up (S01E01)

"...to teach them to deliver the drug payload"
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"only when they come in contact with those proteins."
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"That way, it would allow us to use the strongest..."
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"The strongest drugs available,"
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"while mitigating the health risks."
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"Can we really do this?"
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"You promised your mom a Bunker Hill miracle, Ang."
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"It's what we're gonna give her."
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"Let's start the clock on the cold ischemia."
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"Even in his hibernation state,"
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"I'd expect permanent tissue death"
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"I agree, that's as far as we can push this."
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"We'll have to move fast."
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"Okay, Dr. Channarayapatra's team"
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"will be handling the splenectomy."
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"Dr. Verlaine's team"
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"- the liver repair. - Okay, ten blade."
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"Electrocautery knife."
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"- Orthopedic drill. - Ortho drill."
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"This man's life is in our hands."
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"Good luck, everyone."
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"Traditionally, cervical cancer such as yours"
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"would be treated with chemotherapy,"
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"followed by radiation to try and eradicate"
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"the cancer in your body."
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"But we're not gonna do that."
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"Well, that is an option."
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"And that treatment would be followed by surgery"
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"- But we're not gonna do that, either. - Angie."
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"Sorry. Continue, Doctor."
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"Okay. What, uh, Angie is referring to"
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"is that there is another option."
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"An awesome option. It uses nanobots."
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"Nanobots? This is one of your computer things?"
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"No, no. No computers. Uh, let me explain."
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"If it would help."
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"Sure."
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"Okay, so,"
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"each nanobot is a stand of DNA"
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"folded up like a clamshell."
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"Like origami."
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"Inside the clamshell, we put really strong medicine."
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"Way better than chemo."
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"Uh, and we can use it because we can program the nanobots"
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"I mean, you shouldn't even get sick."
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"It eats the cancer."
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"And you walk away."
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"Good as new."
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"Well, it's not quite that simple, Angie."
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"Believe me, my mom does not need"
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"- to get into the weeds of this stuff. - Is this real?"
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"It's brand-new."
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"Look, you'll be the first, Mom."
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"Look, you're a special patient here."
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"We created this just for you."
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"Don't do that, Mom."
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"Nanobots?"
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"Mom, don't do that. Nanobots is the same in English"
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"as it is in Mandarin. Tell her that"
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"I'm trying to save her life."
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"What did she say?"
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"Your mother would like to thank you"
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"but she wants to go to UCSF."
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"The surgery's finished."
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"But now you have to bring him back to life."
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"We're recirculating his blood."
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"As his body temperature rises,"
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"we believe his heart will resume normal function."
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"There's one thing you'll learn about human anatomy:"
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"there is a biological will to survive."
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"Don't underestimate that."
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"My brother is always hanging from some building"
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"or a bridge,"
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"or in a tunnel."
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"He almost got ran over by a BART train six months ago."
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"I just wish he could be normal."
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"Oh, my God, it worked."
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"You just saved his life."
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"Can you believe her?"
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"Second-guessing everything I did."
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"You know, the truth is, she just can't believe"
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"that something I worked on could be real."
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"Well, you know what? Too bad, she's doing this."
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"that's probably not gonna make you very happy,"
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"but, uh, you need to stop."
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"Stop?"
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"What, you want me to just let her die?"
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"Look, you're scared. I get it."
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"- Eh, I'm not... - No, no, no, no."
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"You are scared, all right?"
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"And your way of dealing with your fears"
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"is falling back on what you know."
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"Digging into the science,"
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"finding an answer, that's who you are."
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"But your mom is scared, too."
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"And right now, she's alone in her fear."
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"Which makes her fall back on what she knows:"
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"the traditional things, things that she understands."
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"Yeah, but she's not alone. I'm doing everything I can."
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"But right now, she needs you to be her daughter."
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"- Not her doctor. - No, I can be both."
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"No. No, you proved to me in there that you can't."
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"But-but that's okay, all right?"
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"If you really want to help your mom,"
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"just listen to her."
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"Don't tell her what to do."
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"Don't tell her what she's feeling,"
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"ask her, and then let her talk."
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"And then try to meet halfway."
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"Okay?"
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"You live in a world of nanobots"
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"and triggering mechanisms, but most people don't."
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"I think we have a problem."
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"Is he bleeding internally again?"
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"No, that's thrombophlebitis."
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"Small clots in the superficial veins."
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"But what if it's just the tip of the iceberg?"
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"Free gets a lot of clots."
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"What if everything that you did"
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"sets off clots everywhere?"
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