Discovery Matters
Episodes
13. Scratched knees, smelly yogurt, and speedy wound healing
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
So, what does yogurt have to do with wound healing? In this episode, Evelina Vågesjö from Ilya Pharma helps Conor and Dodi see the connection. It’...
12. School’s never out: Educating the next gen biopharma talents
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Education matters for sure. But what is special about biopharmaceutical education? And what does the future hold? Dodi and Conor are about to find out...
11. Fighting fake news in biotechnology: Sense about Science
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Can you trust the scientific claims on products you buy? Conor's curiosity led him down a three-pronged investigation about what you can and sho...
10. Perspectives for health - learning about blockchain
13 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Blockchain is everywhere. Is it the technology we've all been waiting for? Sometimes, and sometimes not. Dodi and Conor talk with Dr. Catherine Mullig...
9. Innovation inside-the-box, cyborgs and jugaad (जुगाड)
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Follow Dodi as she dives into the world of innovation. More specifically, the difference between talking innovation and being innovative. Meet Tobias ...
8. Microbiome transplant: cooties can cure you
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Conor has, what he calls "microbiomania". Whatever the topic, he is able to bring it back to microbiomes in about 3 sentences. So imagine how excited ...
7. Fitness trackers in the 1940s: The Framingham Heart Study
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
During a lively lunch chat about the popularity of wearable fitness trackers, the curious question came up: with all this data we are generating, what...
6. CAR-T cell therapy: the story of 2 brave young women fighting cancer
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a more immediately serious story than previous topics we've covered. This story is about a discovery where a number of people ha...
5. A map of humankind from the inside out
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We humans have been mapping things since the beginning of time. In our endless quest to figure ourselves and our world out, there are projects galore....
4. The role of AI in pandemics
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A pandemic starts with a picnic. But can pandemics be prevented without cancelling feel-good gatherings? Enter Artificial Intelligence into the ...
1. Tea and jam and protein separation
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dodi and Conor discover how jam played a part in paving the way for biopharmaceutical drugs. 60 years ago, Swedish scientists happened upon a new meth...
2. When a hamster rules the biopharma world
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Little did you know, but a single hamster has been a force of innovation and massive biomedical production. Scientists devote entire careers to s...
3. Kidney surgeon who fixes the plumbing
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The list of people needing kidney transplants is tragically long, and donor lists are desperately short. Conor and Dodi find scientists who are c...