Meet the man who combines science, technology and magic to understand proteins
Marketplace Tech
Marketplace
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🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Marketplace’s Lily Jamali recently visited the headquarters of Nautilus Biotechnology to meet with Parag Mallick, the company’s founder and chief scientist, who is also a magician and an associate professor at Stanford University. Since 2016, Mallick and his team have been building a machine that they say will revolutionize biomedicine by unlocking the secrets of the “dark proteome.”
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| 0:00.0 | Science and Magic, maybe, not all that different. |
| 0:06.0 | From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Lily Dramale. On a recent Friday I made my way to Silicon Valley to see the labs at Nautilus Biotech. |
| 0:25.0 | Meet my host and tour guide for the day. |
| 0:27.6 | My name is Parag Malik. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm an associate professor at Stanford University and founder and chief scientist at Nautilus Biotechnology. |
| 0:34.8 | And a magician. |
| 0:35.8 | No that is not a figure of speech. |
| 0:38.4 | He really is a magician. |
| 0:40.8 | Even techies. |
| 0:41.8 | Gotta have a side hustle. |
| 0:43.0 | Since 2016, Malik and his team have been building a machine they say will revolutionize |
| 0:49.5 | biomedic by letting us study proteins in a lot more detail than we can now. |
| 0:55.0 | The vast majority of drugs approved by the FDA target a protein, after all. |
| 1:00.0 | The technology comes in the form of a sleek dark box with electric blue flourishes. |
| 1:06.0 | It's set to debut later this year. |
| 1:08.3 | Malick says it measures the proteome. |
| 1:11.0 | And if you don't know what that is well I didn't either. |
| 1:14.4 | All right so you have to explain to me in as simple terms as possible what is the |
| 1:21.7 | proteome? |
| 1:23.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:24.0 | Let's start with first water proteins. |
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