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The Biotech Podcast - #12 - Dr Laura Jackisch on the Future of Lab-Grown Meat
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#12 - Dr Laura Jackisch on the Future of Lab-Grown Meat

The Biotech Podcast

02/25/21

48m

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By striving to produce burgers which taste, look and smell the same as farmed beef from cultured stem cells in a lab, Mosa meat aims to change the way we look at agriculture. This week we talk to Dr Laura Jackisch from Mosa meat about the techniques used and the impacts that this technology can have on our future.
Full synopsis:
00.00 - Intro
01:40 - Cellular agriculture
7:10 - The components of a lab-grown burger
14:00 - Combining muscle and fat effectively
22:15 - Reinventing what we can eat
23:08 - The barriers holding back cellular agriculture
26:17 - Scaling up
30:25 - Social challenges
42:51 - Doubts and career advice
48:11 - Extro

Previous Episode

The founder of CCm technologies, Peter Hammond, talks to us this week on carbon capture machines, along with their use in producing organic fertilisers to improve soil health.
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Episode synopsis:
00:00 - Intro
01:14 - Developing ideas
14:37 - The components of a healthy soil
21:51 - Traditional fertilisers
24:44 - Measuring soil health
25:47 - Organic fertilisers
30:47 - Carbon sources
35:12 - Targeting climate change
50:30 - Extro

Next Episode

This week Dr Jason Moore tells us about the exciting strides forward that AI is taking; might everyone one day have their own machine learning 'toolbox' at home? Jason is the creator of PennAI, an accessible, user-friendly artificial intelligence system and he explains how machine learning will change the future of medicine and many other fields of science.
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Episode synopsis:
00:00 - Intro
01:28 - Machine learning in biology
08:04 - The history of computation in medicine
13:33 - AI's role in diagnostics
20:13 - Issues of bringing AI into medicine
27:04 - Understanding AI algorithms
28:45 - The PennAI system
44:38 - Exciting areas of AI in biology
48:40 - Advice
51:54 - Extro

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