Podcasts about biological discovery

In this episode, we explore how a generative AI tool is marking a major milestone in biology and accelerating advancements in healthcare, genetics, and drug development. Become a founding reader of our newsletter: http://read.thenextbyte.com/ As always, you can find these and other interesting & impactful engineering articles on Wevolver.com.

Episode Description: Elliot Hershberg, a computational biologist, writer, and investor, joins Karl and Erum to explore the fascinating intersection of technology, biology, and philosophy. ​They explore the power of technology-based newsletters, the economics of fermentation, the role of AI in biology, and the future of biotech. The conversation raises thought-provoking questions about data reliability in AI-driven platforms and the need for cautious optimism in embracing new technologies. With insights into the minds of VCs and the potential implications of building a sentient AI, this episode offers a captivating glimpse into the exciting advancements and possibilities in the world of biotech! Grow Everything brings the bioeconomy to life. Hosts Karl Schmieder and Erum Azeez Khan share stories and interview the leaders and influencers changing the world by growing everything. Biology is the oldest technology. And it can be engineered. What are we growing? Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.messaginglab.com/groweverything⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Chapters: 00:00:00 - Synbiobeta Week: The Pulse of Biotech Innovation 00:01:12 - Microbiome Frontiers: From Netflix Documentaries to Real-World Applications 00:04:27 - Algae Chronicles: A Dive into Nature's Ingenious Endosymbionts 00:06:18 - The ChatGPT Phenomenon in Biotech: Conversing with Elliot Hirschberg 00:08:57 - Elliot Hershberg: Penning the Path from Literature to Biotech Breakthroughs 00:11:42 - Navigating the Biotech Labyrinth: Unraveling Complexities 00:15:26 - Biotech Ethos: Pondering the Universe Through a Biological Lens 00:17:58 - Elliot's Odyssey: Crafting 'Not Boring' Narratives in Biotech Finance 00:21:07 - The Biotech Think Tank: Cultivating Ideas 00:24:18 - BioTech Crossroads: Envisioning the Fusion of Life Sciences and Tech 00:27:28 - Quantum Biology: Unveiling the Microscopic Mysteries 00:29:31 - Machine Learning: The New Catalyst in Biological Discovery 00:31:31 - Blueprint for Biotech Trailblazers: Nurturing Innovation 00:32:52 - Venture Capital Visions: Sowing Seeds in Fertile Biotech Grounds 00:35:37 - Newsletters: The DNA of Biotech Knowledge Sharing 00:37:43 - Biomanufacturing Horizons: Shaping the Fabric of Future Production 00:42:38 - AI: The New Author and Architect in Biotech 00:45:39 - Biotech Forecasts: Charting the Uncharted 00:51:06 - Biotech Chronicles: Penning the Progress and Profits Episode Links: Not Boring Capital (link) Elliot Hershberg on LinkedIn The Century of Biology (link) Atomic AI (link) The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee  (link) The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee (link) The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee (link) Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech by Sally Smith Hughes (link) For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug by Nathan Vardi (link) Molecular Biology Of The Cell by Bruce Alberts et al (link) Get $300 off ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Synbiobeta tickets⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (May 6-9 in San Jose, CA) using promo code: Grow Everything Topics Covered:  colors, textile dyes, fabrics, fashion, bioreactors, synthetic biology, synbio, bioengineering, organism engineering, microbiology Have a question or comment? Message us here: Text or Call (804) 505-5553 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ / ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GrowEverything website⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Email: groweverything@messaginglab.com Support here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music by: Nihilore Production by: Amplafy Media --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/messaginglab/message

What if you could program a cell directly to fight cancer? What if you could solve the 7,000 genetic diseases facing our species? This type of science fiction is now a reality, thanks to today's guests on the Beat the Often Path Podcast. Joining me today are Omar Abudayyeh and Jonathan Gootenberg, creators of the AbuGoot lab at MIT, two people leading the way in gene therapy, gene editing, and CRISPR innovations. The AbuGoot lab combines natural biological discovery and molecular engineering to develop a suite of new tools for manipulation of DNA, RNA, and cellular states – the cellular engineering toolbox. In short, it doesn't get more cutting edge than this. ➡️ https://www.abugootlab.org/ ➡️ Highlights: https://rosspalmer.com/omar-abudayyeh  

A passionate advocate for adoption and an adoptee herself, Vicki understands all sides of adoption, from the good times to the struggles. Whilst living overseas in Fiji as an expat, Vicki fostered a child.As her partner's business took them back to Australia Vicki heartbreakingly had to leave him in Fiji. Back in Australia, Vicki had numerous failed attempts at in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and natural conception, so she became an adoptive parent to two children.Vicki is passionate about giving back and works in the not-for-profit sector, currently at Shake It Up Foundation Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A passionate advocate for adoption and an adoptee herself, Vicki understands all sides of adoption, from the good times to the struggles. Whilst living overseas in Fiji as an expat, Vicki fostered a child. As her partner's business took them back to Australia Vicki heartbreakingly had to leave him in Fiji. Back in Australia, Vicki had numerous failed attempts at in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and natural conception, so she became an adoptive parent to two children. Vicki is passionate about giving back and works in the not-for-profit sector, currently at Shake It Up Foundation Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome back! Today I'm really excited to share an interview with Dr. Scott Farrow. Scott is the Director of Biological Discovery at Noblegen Inc., a company that aims to use natural ingredients to make nutrient-rich products that are healthy, sustainable, cost-effective, and renewable to help restore balance to the planet and people. He is an experienced scientist and researcher who specializes in plant biochemistry and natural product biochemical pathway elucidation. This basically means he researches how compounds in plants affect our biology and how they can help us. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Calgary and is now an Adjunct Professor at Trent University. In this conversation, we discuss how plants can be used to enhance health and wellbeing, treat pain, and the idea of using plants as medicine. Enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/dr-greg-wells/support

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.10.22.349944v1?rss=1 Authors: Willforss, J., Siino, V., Levander, F. Abstract: Visual exploration of gene product behavior across multiple omic datasets can pinpoint technical limitations in data and reveal biological trends. The OmicLoupe software was developed to facilitate such exploration and provides more than 15 interactive cross-dataset visualizations for omic data. It expands visualizations to multiple datasets for quality control, statistical comparisons and overlap and correlation analyses, while allowing for rapid inspection and downloading of selected features. The usage of OmicLoupe is demonstrated in three diverse studies, including an analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection across omic layers, based on previously published proteomics and transcriptomics studies. OmicLoupe is available at quantitativeproteomics.org/omicloupe . Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2020.08.11.247072v1?rss=1 Authors: Hie, B., Bryson, B. D., Berger, B. Abstract: Machine learning that generates biological hypotheses has transformative potential, but most learning algorithms are susceptible to pathological failure when exploring regimes beyond the training data distribution. A solution is to quantify prediction uncertainty so that algorithms can gracefully handle novel phenomena that confound standard methods. Here, we demonstrate the broad utility of robust uncertainty prediction in biological discovery. By leveraging Gaussian process-based uncertainty prediction on modern pretrained features, we train a model on just 72 compounds to make predictions over a 10,833-compound library, identifying and experimentally validating compounds with nanomolar affinity for diverse kinases and whole-cell growth inhibition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show how uncertainty facilitates a tight iterative loop between computation and experimentation, improves the generative design of novel biochemical structures, and generalizes across disparate biological domains. More broadly, our work demonstrates that uncertainty should play a key role in the increasing adoption of machine learning algorithms into the experimental lifecycle. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info

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Learn about where fruit flies come from and what they do from special guest Stephanie Mohr, author of “First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery.” You’ll also learn about why your brain makes you extra antisocial when you’re sick, and how entomologist Justin Schmidt created a pain scale from insect stings. Get your copy of “First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery” on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2UFlrLQ In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: Your Brain Makes You Extra Antisocial When You're Sick — https://curiosity.im/2GA2npZ This Scientist Created a Pain Scale by Letting Bugs Sting Him — https://curiosity.im/2J3vTG2 Additional resources from Stephanie Mohr: “First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery” — https://amzn.to/2UFlrLQ Follow Stephanie Mohr on Twitter @smohrfly — https://twitter.com/smohrfly Harvard Medical School bio — https://fgr.hms.harvard.edu/people/stephanie-e-mohr If you love our show and you're interested in hearing full-length interviews, then please consider supporting us on Patreon. You'll get exclusive episodes and access to our archives as soon as you become a Patron! https://www.patreon.com/curiositydotcom Download the FREE 5-star Curiosity app for Android and iOS at https://curiosity.im/podcast-app. And Amazon smart speaker users: you can listen to our podcast as part of your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing — just click “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing.

Learn about the incredible discoveries we’ve made from researching fruit flies with special guest Stephanie Mohr, author of “First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery.” You’ll also earn about how the South Atlantic Anomaly is messing with our satellites and other space equipment. Plus: health benefits of white wine you may not know about. Get your copy of “First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery” on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2UFlrLQ In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: The South Atlantic Anomaly Is the Bermuda Triangle of Space — https://curiosity.im/2GuxenF Why Do Reds Get All the Glory? White Wine Has Health Benefits, Too — https://curiosity.im/2GspNgA Additional resources from Stephanie Mohr: “First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery” — https://amzn.to/2UFlrLQ Follow Stephanie Mohr on Twitter @smohrfly — https://twitter.com/smohrfly Harvard bio — https://scholar.harvard.edu/smohr If you love our show and you're interested in hearing full-length interviews, then please consider supporting us on Patreon. You'll get exclusive episodes and access to our archives as soon as you become a Patron! https://www.patreon.com/curiositydotcom Download the FREE 5-star Curiosity app for Android and iOS at https://curiosity.im/podcast-app. And Amazon smart speaker users: you can listen to our podcast as part of your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing — just click “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing.

Learn about how and why we study fruit flies with some help from Stephanie Mohr, author of the new book “First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery.” You’ll also learn why we still make pennies here in the U.S., and why science says your personality completely changes over time. Get your copy of “First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery” on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2UFlrLQ In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter and learn something new in just a few minutes: The U.S. Penny Costs More Than 1 Cent to Produce — https://curiosity.im/2GoTkYQ Science Says You're A Totally Different Person At 14 And 77 — https://curiosity.im/2IloIZD Additional resources from Stephanie Mohr: “First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery” — https://amzn.to/2UFlrLQ Follow Stephanie Mohr on Twitter @smohrfly — https://twitter.com/smohrfly Harvard bio — https://scholar.harvard.edu/smohr If you love our show and you're interested in hearing full-length interviews, then please consider supporting us on Patreon. You'll get exclusive episodes and access to our archives as soon as you become a Patron! https://www.patreon.com/curiositydotcom Download the FREE 5-star Curiosity app for Android and iOS at https://curiosity.im/podcast-app. And Amazon smart speaker users: you can listen to our podcast as part of your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing — just click “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing.

Learn about how and why we study fruit flies with some help from Stephanie Mohr, author of the new book “First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery.” But first, learn why it’s actually a good thing that doctors work such long hours. Get your copy of “First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery” on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2UFlrLQ In this podcast, Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following story from Curiosity.com about why it might actually be a good thing that doctors work such long hours: https://curiosity.im/2UvhpVy Additional resources from Stephanie Mohr: “First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery” — https://amzn.to/2UFlrLQ Follow Stephanie Mohr on Twitter @smohrfly — https://twitter.com/smohrfly Harvard bio — https://scholar.harvard.edu/smohr If you love our show and you're interested in hearing full-length interviews, then please consider supporting us on Patreon. You'll get exclusive episodes and access to our archives as soon as you become a Patron! https://www.patreon.com/curiositydotcom Download the FREE 5-star Curiosity app for Android and iOS at https://curiosity.im/podcast-app. And Amazon smart speaker users: you can listen to our podcast as part of your Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing — just click “enable” here: https://curiosity.im/podcast-flash-briefing.

Two of the world's most famous research chimpanzees have finally retired. Hercules and Leo arrived at a chimp sanctuary in Georgia last week. Sarah Crespi checks in with Online News Editor David Grimm on the increasing momentum for research chimp retirement since the primates were labeled endangered species in 2015. Sarah also interviews freelancer Sophia Chen about her piece on x-ray ghost imaging—a technique that may lead to safer medical imaging done with cheap, single-pixel cameras. David Malakoff joins Sarah to talk about the big boost in U.S. science funding signed into law over the weekend. Finally, Jen Golbeck interviews author Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr on her book First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery for our monthly books segment. This week's episode was edited by Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Crystal Alba/Project Chimps; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

Two of the world’s most famous research chimpanzees have finally retired. Hercules and Leo arrived at a chimp sanctuary in Georgia last week. Sarah Crespi checks in with Online News Editor David Grimm on the increasing momentum for research chimp retirement since the primates were labeled endangered species in 2015. Sarah also interviews freelancer Sophia Chen about her piece on x-ray ghost imaging—a technique that may lead to safer medical imaging done with cheap, single-pixel cameras. David Malakoff joins Sarah to talk about the big boost in U.S. science funding signed into law over the weekend. Finally, Jen Golbeck interviews author Stephanie Elizabeth Mohr on her book First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery for our monthly books segment. This week’s episode was edited by Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Crystal Alba/Project Chimps; Music: Jeffrey Cook]