Category: popsci

Future Tense podcasts: The potential benefits and risks of developing “mirror life”

Synthetic biologists are hard at work developing artificial biological molecules as the first step toward developing a mirror cell that would be immune from infection. If they’re successful, it could transform the world of medicine.
But while the potential of mirror life is great, so too are the risks. There are warnings of a catastrophic impact if the cells can’t be controlled. And that’s prompted calls for a moratorium on the research.

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Thinking Beyond presents: Creating a New Tree of Life in the Lab: Threats and Opportunities

The “Thinking Beyond” webinar series features renowned physicists Paul Davies, Sara Walker and Maulik Parikh from the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University and addresses big questions/topics in science.

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Life, But Not Alive – synthetic cell engineering at Concordia 4th Space

The 4TH SPACE Concordia University organized public seminar on synthetic cell engineering.

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Scientists disagree on the origin of life

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Discussion on the origin(s) of life with Kate Adamala, Addy Pross and Chrisantha Fernando

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Quanta Magazine podcast, “Even Synthetic Life Forms With a Tiny Genome Can Evolve”.

By watching “minimal” cells regain the fitness they lost, researchers are testing whether a genome can be too simple to evolve.

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Kate talked about engineering cells from scratch for biotechnology applications.
the-scientist.com/podcasts/the-art-and-science-of-synthetic-biology-71525

podbean link: thescientistspeaks.podbean.com/e/the-art-and-science-of-synthetic-biology

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Kate talked about engineering synthetic cells as part of SynBYSS seminar series. Recording on youtube.

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