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Is the answer to sustainable chemical manufacturing floating in our oceans? Ocean cyanobacteria, like plants, use sunlight as power to help them make complex chemicals.  Traditional industrial chemistry requires a lot of power and can be quite polluting. Cyanobacteria are actually more efficient at…

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What if the solution to chronic wound healing has been floating in our oceans for 600 million years? Jellyfish collagen isn't just different from the cow and pig-derived materials used in medicine today. It's actually better at healing human tissue. I sit down with Dr Andrew Mearns-Spragg…
Can neuroscience finally catch up with the complexity of mental illness? Society faces a huge and growing burden from mental illness and impairment. Schizophrenia, for example, is a bigger socioeconomic burden than all cancers put together. We have medicines for some of these conditions, but typica…
Forget drilling—what if diesel could be grown instead? In this episode we head into the world of engineered biology with Paul Beastall, CEO of HutanBio. He explains how his team is cultivating an oil-rich microalgae, previously unknown to science, that thrives in desert heat, tolerates high salinit…
What if the future of computing isn’t silicon... but neurons? In this episode, we explore a radical new frontier where biology and technology come together — programming living neurons as processors. I am joined by Dr. Ewelina Kurtys of FinalSpark, a pioneering scientist bridging neuroscience and A…
Three-quarters of women report that menstrual symptoms impact their daily performance, yet until recently, no one had looked at the brain's role in these symptoms. In this eye-opening episode I am joined by Emilė Radytė, PhD—Harvard and Oxford-trained neuroscientist, Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree…
Electrical monitoring and stimulation could revolutionise diagnosis and treatment for some of the most aggressive brain cancers and intractable neurological diseases. In glioblastoma, a particularly aggressive brain tumour that is hard to treat and almost invariably fatal, the impacts of an effecti…
Imagine that we could make tissues indistinguishable from those produced by humans or animals, at will, and at comparable cost to the natural products. With the rate of progress being made, it won’t be imaginary much longer. If we don’t need to kill animals for food, leather, or other products, the…
In this episode of The Big Experiment, we are live, recording from the Synthetic Biology UK 2024 conference hosted by the Biochemical Society, at Hinxton Hall near Cambridge, home of the famous Genome Campus.Synthetic biology is the practice of manipulating biology to achieve outcomes that don’t oc…
Weight loss drugs are in the spotlight. Obesity is a huge and potentially profitable problem, attracting lots of scientific and medical resources.But there are circumstances where avoiding weight loss is crucial and where it is beneficial to put weight on. Cachexia is a serious condition affecting …
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