The Biorevolution Podcast with Andreas Horchler and Louise von Stechow – father and daughter, journalist and biologist, talking about the technologies of the biorevolution. Can genetic engineering, synthetic biology, and artificial intelligence save humanity from disease, climate change, and overpopulation, or are these technologies the first step towards its downfall?
Content and Editing:
Louise von Stechow and Andreas Horchler
Disclaimer:
Louise von Stechow, Andreas Horchler and their guests express their personal opinions, which are founded on research on the respective topics but do not claim to give medical, investment, or life advice in the podcast.
From Biohacking to Healthcare- the growing pain of the Longevity Industry
Shownotes the BioRevolution podcast episode 48
For most of human history, “living longer” mainly meant not d...
Nature has “gifted” us proteins that carry out a vast array of functions in cells, shaping the lives of all organisms, ecosystems, and ultimately the planet. In the age of synthetic biology, res...
Animal models have been the mainstay for testing hypotheses about human diseases and their treatment in academic research and drug development.
However, these models raise ethical concern...
In our complex world, science can be an important guiding thread for decision-making—both for policymakers and for individuals—on how to shape the health and wellbeing of society and individuals...
For decades, biology treated the human genome as a tidy instruction manual—genes neatly encoding proteins, surrounded by vast stretches of supposedly irrelevant DNA. As sequencing and molecular ...
We’re living in the big data age, surrounded by personal, scientific, and societal data that could help us understand the world, make decisions, and even forecast what comes next. But complex sy...
The Rare Lens: AI-based image recognition for rare disease diagnoses
There are around 6000 rare diseases, which affect over 300 million people worldwide. Rare diseases are often difficult...
Cells are the basic units of life. For over a century, understanding cellular processes has been the basis for understanding human development and disease, and for deciphering the actions of nov...
Every second man and every third woman will experience a cancer diagnosis during their lives. Getting the news can be devastating and paralyzing, but making the right decisions about treatment, ...
This time Louise and Andreas invited the artist Annette Goessel into the show to discuss the once united forces of art and science that seem so seperate in our day and age.
And: For the f...
