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I actually brought this up with my wife.
我也跟我的老婆提起過這件事，
She's a musical instrument maker, and she does a lot of wood carving for a living.
她是一位樂器制造家，也把制作木雕當成一種職業(yè)。
So I asked her, "Could you, like, literally carve some ears out of an apple for us?"
所以我問她，“你可以為我們用蘋果雕刻出一些耳朵嗎？”
And she did. So I took her ears to the lab.
她真的做到了。后來我?guī)е窨痰亩淙チ藢嶒炇摇?/div>
We then started preparing them. Yeah, I know.
我們開始籌備實驗。是的，我知道（這看起來很驚悚）。
It's a good lab, man.
伙計們，這可是個很棒的實驗室。
And then we grew cells on them. And this is the result.
之后我們在上面培植細胞。結果是這樣的。
Listen, my lab is not in the ear-manufacturing business.
聽我說，我的實驗室并不參與制造耳朵的生意。
People have actually been working on this for decades.
人們已經(jīng)研究這一項目幾十年了。
Here's the issue: commercial scaffolds can be really expensive and problematic,
問題在于：商業(yè)化的骨架組織價格極高，而且問題重重。
because they're sourced from proprietary products, animals or cadavers.
因為它們來源于專利產(chǎn)品，動物或尸體。
We used an apple and it cost pennies.
我們只用了一個幾分錢的蘋果。
What's also really cool here is it's not that hard to make these things.
更炫酷的是，制造這些東西并不是很難。
The equipment you need can be built from garbage, and the key processing step only requires soap and water.
你所需要的設備可以由廢品打造，而且關鍵的加工步驟只需要肥皂和水。
So what we did was put all the instructions online as open source.
于是，我們把制作教程公開上傳到網(wǎng)上。
And then we founded a mission-driven company,
然后我們成立了一家身負使命的公司，
and we're developing kits to make it easier for anyone with a sink and a soldering iron to make these things at home.
旨在開發(fā)成套的工具，讓任何有水槽和焊鐵的人能夠很方便的在家完成這些。
