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The New Biology

by Niko McCarty

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The New Biology features long-form discussions with historians, technologists, and scientists who are working on some of the biggest ideas in biotechnology, from magnet-controlled medicines to virtual cells. Supported by Astera Institute.

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SpudCell will replicate continuously by 2030 | Kate Adamala

Chemists at the University of Minnesota, led by Kate Adamala, recently built a synthetic cell that eats, grows, and divides; purely by putting together molecules in the l

Sep 17
1 h 25 min

Biotech for Chickens — Robert Yaman

A dairy cow is worth $1,000 to $2,000 to a farmer, whereas a broiler chicken, raised for meat, generates just $4 of profit. Quantifying animals this way may feel uncomfor

Aug 4
1 h 24 min

Engineered Microbes Seen from the Sky — Yonatan Chemla on Hyperspectral Biology

Scientists have studied bacteria under microscopes for 400 years. But Yonatan Chemla, a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, has developed a technology that lets us see microbes f

Jul 21
1 h 23 min

The Bitter Lesson for Biology — Adam Green on Virtual Cells and Scaling Laws

Markov Biosciences, a startup in San Francisco, is betting that biology is about to have its GPT moment. In this episode, founder Adam Green explains the "bitter lesson"

Jun 12
1 h 29 min

Magnet-Controlled Medicines — Andrew York & Maria Ingaramo

Nonfiction Laboratories is building a technology called “magnetogenetics” that promises to control proteins inside the body — such as antibodies or enzymes — using small

May 29
2 h 07 min

Mark Budde - How to speed up wet-lab biology

Plasmidsaurus took plasmid sequencing from $600 to $15 and turned a "boring" service company idea into a hugely successful company serving 70,000+ scientists. In this epi

May 8
57 min

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