The Biorevolution Podcast
Episodes
From Animals to Algorithms: How AI Brings Drug Testing Closer to Human Biology
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Animal models have been the mainstay for testing hypotheses about human diseases and their treatment in academic research and drug development. Howev...
From Bench to Mic – Demystifying Science
02 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In our complex world, science can be an important guiding thread for decision-making—both for policymakers and for individuals—on how to shape the...
Into the dark – finding meaning within the depth of our proteome
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
For decades, biology treated the human genome as a tidy instruction manual—genes neatly encoding proteins, surrounded by vast stretches of supposedl...
Everything Everywhere All at Once: Mapping the Bigger Picture with Macroscopes
19 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We’re living in the big data age, surrounded by personal, scientific, and societal data that could help us understand the world, make decisions, and...
The Rare Lens: AI-based image recognition for rare disease diagnoses
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Rare Lens: AI-based image recognition for rare disease diagnoses There are around 6000 rare diseases, which affect over 300 million people worldw...
Virtual cells - Decoding life's basic units
07 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cells are the basic units of life. For over a century, understanding cellular processes has been the basis for understanding human development and dis...
The 8 Essentials For Overcoming Cancer
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Every second man and every third woman will experience a cancer diagnosis during their lives. Getting the news can be devastating and paralyzing, but ...
Creative Matter: Where Art Meets Science
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This time Louise and Andreas invited the artist Annette Goessel into the show to discuss the once united forces of art and science that seem so sepera...
Out of the Lab, Into the Code: An Age of AI Scientists?
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It sounds promising: AI chatbots acting as scientists, condensing the work of weeks, months, or even years of reading, debate, and hour-long lab meeti...
Medical machines get smarter - AI in Medtech
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The $600 billion MedTech industry is undergoing a technological transformation. From AI-powered medical imaging to smart diagnostics and remote monito...
We are what we eat – The future of food
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Food is a topic that is both deeply personal and of global importance. What we eat affects our health and longevity, but also the lives of animals and...
New tech, new talent, new challenges – pharma leadership in the age of AI
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Despite great hopes for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in biotech and pharma—with investments exceeding $50 billion over the past ten years—the ques...
Illuminating the Dark Genome – New Insights into the Genetic Basis of Disease
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than 20 years after the Human Genome Project, enabled by new sequencing technologies, researchers are making progress in exploring the vast non-c...
The biochemistry of the mystical – a psychedelics renaissance?
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When the Swiss chemist synthesized and tested the psychedelic compound LSD in the 1930s, he knew he had found a tool to explore the human mind. Indeed...
A question of trust - Why we need science
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This time on the BioRevolution podcast: science itself. While recent surveys show persistently high trust in science worldwide, certain scientific top...
More Boom or…Bust – What to expect from AI in biotech in 2025?
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In some respects, 2024 has been a record year for AI in biotech, with the $1 billion founding of the antibody-centered biotech company Xaira and the a...
New year old me – no biohacks needed
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
2025: For millions of people, the new year starts with the self-promise to improve, to quit smoking, alcohol, to get in shape, to stay young and attra...
The science of stress – a cortisol conspiracy
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Modern humans are stressed creatures: overloaded schedules, constantly “on-call,” and social media haunting us into the late night. Part of this s...
Scientific Communication - Telling Stories that Matter
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Science can be complex and difficult to grasp, yet public understanding is crucial for navigating issues like disease risk, climate change, and pandem...
AI in drug development – Expanding the option space
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the expensive and failure-prone process of drug development, artificial intelligence (AI) can serve both as an efficiency tool and as a creativity ...
The future of medicine - trends, technologies and skills
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How will the medicine of the future look? Healthcare and medicine are on the verge of transformative change, driven by new technologies such as artifi...
Update on LLMs - hope, hype and hallucination
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some 36 months after the release of ChatGPT, the verdict is still out on the role that large language models (LLMs) will play in biotech, pharma, and ...
Artificial intelligence - Hope for rare disease patients?
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rare or orphan diseases affect only a small percentage of the population and often lack effective treatments. While rare individually, in total, more ...
New biotechnologies - Revolution or evolution?
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When we think about revolutions, we think of systemic changes in politics, economics, and lifestyles. Revolutions transform how we live, work, interac...
Polygenic risk scores – The Truth in our Genes
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Polygenic risk scores (PRS), put simply, look at gene variants across the human genome in order to determine an individual's risk of getting a disease...
Cell rejuvenation – Resetting the biological clock
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aging is a dynamic process characterized by the accumulation of cell damage, tissue, and organ degeneration, and diminished function. This process of ...
Women’s Health - Humanity’s other half
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Women make up about half of humanity. Yet, the medical community and the pharmaceutical and biotech industries have long adopted an androcentric view ...
mRNA Therapeutics - New applications for an old molecule
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
RNA, one of the oldest and most versatile biomolecules, has recently entered the therapeutic arena. While for many observers the success of mRNA vacci...
Ozempic & co – A new era of weight loss?
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In principle the solution to the problem of overweight should be very easy:eat less and exercise more.But anyone who’s ever tried to lose weight –...
CRISPR CAS – Life’s processing tool
01 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Gene editing technology allows humans, for the first time, to change the code of life with a precise editing system offering the potential for curing ...
Synthetic Biology - Rewriting Life
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Synthetic biology - the artificial creation of biological molecules, cells, and even organisms - has the potential to revolutionize biotechnology and ...
Big data in pharma - From garbage to gold
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In our data-heavy age, data becomes a treasure, a currency, a valuable good. This is true especially for the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, wh...
De-extinction - A mammoth project
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The rapid spread of humans is causing many species to disappear off the face of the earth – in a so-called mass extinction. Some scientists are tryi...
365 days We're doomed we're saved
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ein Jahr We're doomed we're saved - seiten einem Jahr sprechen Andreas Horchler und Louise von Stechow über die Themen der Biorevolution. Wir haben ü...
Follow the money - Die Geldquellen der Biowissenschaften
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Follow the money, folge dem Geld, ist eine alte Weisheit wenn man den Kern einer Angelegenheit verstehen will. In der 12. Folge von We're doomed we'r...
Die Zukunft der Pharmaindustrie - Neue Technologien und Modelle
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Wie werden neue Technologien, wie die künstliche Intelligenz die Pharmaindustrie beeinflussen? Welche neuen Modelle werden die Blockbuster der Vergan...
Biohackers - Die Garagenwissenschaftler
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Biohacker experimentieren an sich selbst, führen genetische Modifikationen durch, implantieren Mikrochips und testen neue Medikamente. Dabei bewegen ...
ChatGPT - The rise of the chatbots
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
ChatGPT, das Large Language Model von OpenAI ist in aller Munde. Von Untergangsszenarien in denen der Mensch und seine Arbeitsleistung als obsolet erk...
Longevity- Who wants to live forever?
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Seit Anbeginn der Menschheit beschäftigt uns die Frage, warum wir altern, warum wir sterben müssen. In der neuen Folge von We’re doomed, we’re s...
Künstliche Intelligenz – Der vorhersagbare Mensch
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Künstliche Intelligenz könnte dabei helfen, Krankheiten zu erkennen und zu heilen, Ärzten eine schnellere oder genauere Diagnose ermöglichen, und ...
Neuroprosthetics - Das Zeitalter der Cyborgs
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Prothesen, die mit dem Nervensystem verbundenen werden, können Menschen mit Einschränkungen helfen verlorene Mobilität und Sensorik zurückzuerlang...
Biowaffen - Neue Möglichkeiten und alte Ängste
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Biowaffen haben zum Glück in der Geschichte der Menschheit nur selten Anwendung gefunden – sind sie doch zu unkontrollierbar. Doch mit den Technolo...
Gene drives - Menschengemachte Evolution
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sogenannte Gene Drives sind spezielle Genveränderungsmethoden, die es Wissenschaftlern zum ersten Mal erlauben die Grenzen der klassischen Evolution ...
Editiertes Erbgut - Reparaturen und Upgrades
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gentherapien und Geneditierungsverfahren versprechen die Heilung von Krankheiten von Hämophilie bis Krebs. Sie erlauben aber auch genetische Upgrades...
Endliche Antibiotika - Die vertane Chance
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Antibiotika wurden einst als Heilbringer der Menschheit gefeiert und haben dazu beigetragen die durchschnittliche Lebenserwartung zu erhöhen. Doch s...
Die Biorevolution - Risiken und Versprechen
04 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Die Biorevolution bringt viele neue Technologien, mit großen Versprechungen, aber auch unkalkulierbaren Risiken. In dieser Folge geben Andreas Horchl...