Ariel Ekblaw

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1,219 appearances 5 recordings 4 series first heard May 2025 last heard 26 Jun

Ariel Ekblaw’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And for a lot of biological biotech processes, that's huge to get rid of sedimentation

Do you have a bottle?

I feel like someone's got to give you a bottle of that.

Yeah, so what can you do?

So you don't have any convection.

You don't have sedimentation.

And then you have things that we typically think of as a difficulty, but in space can be a feature, not a bug.

So use the vacuum or use radiation to do something.

Oh, wow.

So on the first two, the convection and the lack of sedimentation, you can do tissue engineering in zero G in a way that you cannot do on Earth.

And a wonderful example is this company, LambdaVision, that's doing artificial retinas, takes 200 layers of a really delicate little protein.

And if you do it on Earth, you get little sagging effects.

And with 200 layers, that amplifies the error.

It's not Lasix.

Yeah, it's a different process.

It's bacteria, rhodopsin.

Yeah, so it's making, Lasix is when they use light to make a change to your eye.

This is growing a new retina in space that is, because you're floating, you get this perfect little cell matrix.

You get this perfect structure.

They have figured out a way to stabilize it and bring it back down to Earth so that you can actually have the surgery and the implantation on Earth.

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