The Biorevolution Podcast
Episode Archive
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We're doomed we're saved #23
When we think about revolutions, we think of systemic changes in politics, economics, and lifestyles. Revolutions transform how we live, work, interact, and communicate. In the past, political u...
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We're doomed we're saved #22
Polygenic risk scores (PRS), put simply, look at gene variants across the human genome in order to determine an individual's risk of getting a disease, from different types of cancer to type II ...
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We're doomed we're saved #21
Aging is a dynamic process characterized by the accumulation of cell damage, tissue, and organ degeneration, and diminished function. This process of decline appears to be an inevitable aspect o...
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We're doomed we're saved #20
Women make up about half of humanity. Yet, the medical community and the pharmaceutical and biotech industries have long adopted an androcentric view of disease biology and healthcare needs, per...
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We're doomed we're saved #19
RNA, one of the oldest and most versatile biomolecules, has recently entered the therapeutic arena. While for many observers the success of mRNA vaccines seemed to come out of the blue, its buil...
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We're doomed we're saved #18
In principle the solution to the problem of overweight should be very easy:eat less and exercise more.But anyone who’s ever tried to lose weight – so probably almost anyone – will be able to tes...
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We're doomed we're saved #17
Gene editing technology allows humans, for the first time, to change the code of life with a precise editing system offering the potential for curing genetic diseases. The gene editing field is ...
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We're doomed we're saved #16
Synthetic biology - the artificial creation of biological molecules, cells, and even organisms - has the potential to revolutionize biotechnology and agriculture, allowing for the creation of no...
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We're doomed we're saved #15
In our data-heavy age, data becomes a treasure, a currency, a valuable good. This is true especially for the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, where data can inform the development of novel...
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We're doomed we're saved #14
The rapid spread of humans is causing many species to disappear off the face of the earth – in a so-called mass extinction. Some scientists are trying to reverse this process, by bringing back e...