IndiaBioscience is an organisation serving as the bridge between the ivory towers of academic research, clinicians, and the wider public, It serves to take the science funded by public money and give i...

Wastewater is a gold mine for energy, nutrients and water. Marc Wehmeijer dispels myths about breaking in to the wastewater industry, and takes us on a tour of the global wastewater treatment landscape from the deserts of Durango, Mexico to the...

Algae is a high potential and high protein food. Learn how engineers and entrepreneurs like Peter Mponzi are using algae to cultivate the future of nutrition.Peter Mponzi i...

Join us for a whirlwind tour of the key problems with modern agriculture and the alternative emerging technologies. In this final episode with Agata the biocontainment researcher and Simon, Head of Human Practices, from the Wageningen iGEM team...

In an iGEM competition, open source interchangeable parts of genetic material (BioBricks) allow hundreds of teams of students to create synbio solutions to real world problems. Joined by captain Johannes and treasurer Niko from the 2023 Wagenin...

The Wageningen iGEM Team is developing a solution to prevent frost damage using synthetic biology. Listen to find out more about how frost damage affects farmers, markets and us as consumers, and how Wageningen plan the scientific aspects of th...

Can you patent a newly discovered protein? Does getting a patent depend on the application? What does intellectual property encompass? Our guests, IP specialists Sara Holland and David Holt from Potter Clarkson, join us to shed light on these t...

Sebastian Cocioba is an amateur scientist  pursuing his scientific curiousities from his home lab and mentoring young scientists via Binomica Labs. His mission is to enable agency through building open source tools and allow anyone to ...

Sebastian Cocioba is an amateur scientist conducting research from his home lab. In our previous episode, we discussed how he's building tools for the future molecular florists.Here and now, we take this topic further, starting with the...

Sebastian Cocioba is a scientist and researcher building open source tools to make research easier and cheaper. Do you, by any chance, know where the M9 media comes from and what it was originally used? Sebastian takes us on a two year journey ...

Sebasian Cocioba is an independent researcher, conducting the discovery, research and more from his own home lab. This is part one of our conversation with Sebastian. He details his first experiences in science from seeing a maple leaf and thin...

Doing science is not a lonely endeavour. It involves collaborating with others, using your shared knowledge to find solutions to pressing problems, and pushing past the boundaries of what is known. As an EBRC council member, professor and found...

Dr. Clarice D. Aiello is a quantum engineer interested in how quantum mechanics informs biology. She fearlessly leads the Quantum Biology Tech (QuBiT) Lab in UCLA where she explores if spin physics can account for relevant biosensing and be use...

Paige Whitehead is CEO and cofounder of Nyoka, a company on a mission to lighten up the world with proteins. But how? In this episode, we explore bioluminescence, its vital uses, and how it could be used to clean up a toxic chemical industry.&n...

Research is behind bars: paywalls and a closed peer-review process. You pay both to publish and to read published works. A small fraction of scientists are involved in peer review, creating a bottleneck and limiting the range of expertise that ...

Supply chains are large complex systems with vast amounts of data, plagued with problems. Products are contaminated, go missing, are resold without permission, are sold as something else. Within the food supply chain, it can take up to eight we...

Current automation is expensive and difficult to use. Scientists have to learn complex programming languages, becoming more programmers than experimenters. Machines they use understand basic commands such as ‘draw one ml of liquid from this tub...

 The environmental microbiome is facing a series of stresses that have passed the tipping point with pertinent examples including microplastic infestation and desertification. What if we could use microbes on an environmental scale to impr...

Proteins are the functional unit of all life processes and as such it is important that we maximise our understanding of their interactions with other molecules in order to study their effects. Dr. Tomas Rube talked with us about his recently d...

Optogenetics is the study of light-controlled biological systems, this may sound futuristic, however, many organisms already change in response to light. In this episode, we talked with Dr. Armin Baumschlager about his work and understanding of...

Biocomposite materials can utilise potentially waste carbon sources and capture them for a useful purpose. For example, Dr. Aled Deakin Roberts talked with us about how he can create a biocomposite material from ashes using a bio-inspired adhes...

Standardization  of biological parts to make them more independent, scalable and tunable is a hope for the future of synthetic biology. Dr. Brecht de Paepe talked with us about how achieving this standardization would have a tremendous eff...

Controlling the behaviour and output of microorganisms is one of the most important pieces in the biotechnology puzzle. Without an improved level of control in biology, it is difficult to create consistent results from engineered organisms. Fut...

 Water contamination is an issue we face from past and current industrial activities that affects our health. Of course the ideal scenario would be not to let the contamination escape in the first place, however, this is sometimes unavoida...

 Discovering the remaining part of a human genome. The first draft of the human genome was published in 2001, now, over 20 years later, we have a complete sequence of the human genome. The newly complete genome contains sequences that were...