INIHAYAG ng chemist na si Fraser Stoddart, na nanalo ng Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016, na umaasa siya na makakamit ng sangkatauhan sa susunod na 20 taon ang sapat na technological development para maging posible ang paglikha ng maliliit na robot upang magpagaling ng mga sakit.

Nakapanayam ng TASS ang siyentistang Briton, na kasalukuyang nagtatrabaho sa Northwestern University.

Pinarangalan ng Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 si Stoddart at dalawang katrabaho niyang sina Jean-Pierre Sauvage mula sa University of Strasbourg, France, at Bernard L. Feringa mula sa University of Groningen, ng Netherlands, ng Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noong Oktubre 5, “for the design and synthesis of molecular machines.”

Tungkol sa praktikal na paggamit sa kanyang pag-aaral, saad ni Stoddart: “I think… this is far down the road before it’s going to be in industry and in production. I think this prize this year… is for fundamental science and I think on that note we should rejoice.”

“But don’t get me wrong, I don’t think we have the right to just do fundamental work and no more, we have to find out what it might lead to. In my own case, we’ve invested quite a lot of work and time into molecular electronics with a modicum of success and also into drug delivery systems,” anang siyentista.

“These are certainly two areas that I think can be continued by us, revisited by others. And actually there’s a lot more hope there in the application sense that the younger members of the community can come up with so in this regard I have a book coming out in about a month’s time called ‘The Nature of the Mechanical Bond: from Molecules to Machines’,” aniya.

Dagdag niya, “The last chapter is on molecular switches, molecular motors and molecular machines. I’m just hoping that it can bring in a whole new army of young chemists and physicists to exploit this new physical bond.”

Nang hingan ng komento sa iba’t ibang lathala na nagsasabi na ang kanyang pag-aaral ay makatutulong sa pagbubuo ng nanorobots na may kakayahang gamutin ang oncological at iba pang mga sakit, inihayag ng siyentista: “I think some of this is still science fiction. You know, I lost my own wife from breast cancer in 2004, 12 years ago.”

Sinabi ni Stoddart na naniniwala siyang magkakaiba ang epekto ng cancer sa bawat pasyente, batay na rin sa naging karanasan niya sa pag-aalaga sa kanyang misis sa loob ng 12 taon ng pakikipaglaban nito “I think a much more sophisticated approach has to be thought true, and I’m not yet super confident that we are close to the dream scenario. I wish we were,” dagdag ng siyentista.

“I just hope in the next 20 years people’s minds are going to be blown away by what this part of molecular technology will be able to do.” (PNA)