The Living Revolution
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
IndiaBioscience with Dr. Karishma Kaushik | The Living Revolution
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IndiaBioscience is an organisation serving as the bridge between the ivory towers of academic research, clinicians, and the wider public, It serves to...
The Wastewater Treatment Nexus: Energy, Nutrients and Water with CEO of ThinkTIM Marc Wehmeijer | The Living Revolution
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wastewater is a gold mine for energy, nutrients and water. Marc Wehmeijer dispels myths about breaking in to the wastewater industry, and takes us on ...
Cultivating algae | Peter Mponzi with The Living Revolution
06 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Algae is a high potential and high protein food. Learn how engineers and entrepreneurs like Peter Mponzi are using algae to cultivate the future of nu...
Modern agriculture and Synthetic biology | The Living Revolution with Wageningen iGEM 2023
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for a whirlwind tour of the key problems with modern agriculture and the alternative emerging technologies. In this final episode with Agata t...
Biobricks, GMOs, IP and the art of DNA detection | The Living Revolution with iGEM Wageningen 2023
05 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In an iGEM competition, open source interchangeable parts of genetic material (BioBricks) allow hundreds of teams of students to create synbio solutio...
Preventing frost damage, joining iGEM and what it takes to make a team | Wageningen 2023
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Wageningen iGEM Team is developing a solution to prevent frost damage using synthetic biology. Listen to find out more about how frost damage affe...
Protecting Biotechnological Breakthroughs: A Discussion with IP Specialists | Sara Holland and David Holt
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Can you patent a newly discovered protein? Does getting a patent depend on the application? What does intellectual property encompass? Our guests, IP ...
Sampling from the ocean, Mischief and Misery, curiousity-driven research | Sebastian Cocioba
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Cocioba is an amateur scientist pursuing his scientific curiousities from his home lab and mentoring young scientists via Binomica Labs. H...
An Ecosystem of Open Source Directed Evolution Robots | Sebastian Cocioba
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Cocioba is an amateur scientist conducting research from his home lab. In our previous episode, we discussed how he's building tools fo...
Molecular Florists, Binomica Labs, the M9 Media, Photobiology | Sebastian Cocioba
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sebastian Cocioba is a scientist and researcher building open source tools to make research easier and cheaper. Do you, by any chance, know where the ...
DIY Biology | Sebastian Cocioba
04 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sebasian Cocioba is an independent researcher, conducting the discovery, research and more from his own home lab. This is part one of our conversation...
Tae Seok Moon | SynBYSS| EBRC bioengineering into sustainability | Probiotics | Scientific collaborations
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Doing science is not a lonely endeavour. It involves collaborating with others, using your shared knowledge to find solutions to pressing problems, an...
Quantum Biology | Dr. Clarice D. Aiello
04 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Clarice D. Aiello is a quantum engineer interested in how quantum mechanics informs biology. She fearlessly leads the Quantum Biology Tech (QuBiT)...
Bioluminescence for a cleaner chemical industry | Paige Whitehead, CEO of Nyoka
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Paige Whitehead is CEO and cofounder of Nyoka, a company on a mission to lighten up the world with proteins. But how? In this episode, we explore biol...
Open Science Platform | Prachee Avasthi from Arcadia Science
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Research is behind bars: paywalls and a closed peer-review process. You pay both to publish and to read published works. A small fraction of scientist...
Microbial Spores to Track, Trace and Authenticate | Aanika Biosciences
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Supply chains are large complex systems with vast amounts of data, plagued with problems. Products are contaminated, go missing, are resold without pe...
Automating and Democratising Science with Trilobio
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Current automation is expensive and difficult to use. Scientists have to learn complex programming languages, becoming more programmers than experimen...
Environmental Medicine with Prof Victor de Lorenzo
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The environmental microbiome is facing a series of stresses that have passed the tipping point with pertinent examples including microplastic infest...
Predicting protein-ligand interactions with machine learning | The Living Revolution with Dr. Tomas Rube
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Proteins are the functional unit of all life processes and as such it is important that we maximise our understanding of their interactions with other...
Controlling Organisms with Light | The Living Revolution with Armin Baumschlager
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Optogenetics is the study of light-controlled biological systems, this may sound futuristic, however, many organisms already change in response to lig...
Space Concrete | The Living Revolution with Dr. Aled Deakin Roberts
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Biocomposite materials can utilise potentially waste carbon sources and capture them for a useful purpose. For example, Dr. Aled Deakin Roberts talked...
Standardization in Biology | The Living Revolution with Dr. Brecht De Paepe
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Standardization of biological parts to make them more independent, scalable and tunable is a hope for the future of synthetic biology. Dr. Brecht de...
Control Theory, Co-culture, Machine Learning & Biosecurity | The Living Revolution with Miroslav Gasparek
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Controlling the behaviour and output of microorganisms is one of the most important pieces in the biotechnology puzzle. Without an improved level of c...
Testing Water Contamination with Synthetic Biology | The Living Revolution with Robert Mayall
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Water contamination is an issue we face from past and current industrial activities that affects our health. Of course the ideal scenario would be n...
A Complete Human Genome | The Living Revolution with Dr. Adam Phillippy & Dr. Surgey Nurk
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Discovering the remaining part of a human genome. The first draft of the human genome was published in 2001, now, over 20 years later, we have a com...
Maximising Cell Growth | The Living Revolution with Dr. Rebecca Vaught
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Most of life science is reliant on the ability to grow the thing you want to study, this requires media. Media is the 'food' which cells u...
The Future of Materials | The Living Revolution with Prof. Allen Liu
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Programmable materials, living materials, cell-derived materials, these are all things we talk about in today's episode with Prof. Allen Liu. We ...
Digital-to-Biological Converter | The Living Revolution with Dr. John Gill
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Without the ability to synthesise DNA, biotechnology would not be a shred of what it is today. In this episode, Dr. John Gill talks to us about the fu...
Taking Synthetic Biology To The Next Level | The Living Revolution with Dr. Jake Beal
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we spoke with Dr. Jake Beal who is a scientist at BBN and a former researcher at MIT. He shared with us his incredible grasp on why it is import...
Animal-Free Meat | The Living Revolution with Dr. George Taylor
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. George Taylor talks with us about the cultivated meat industry and how synthetic biology can be used to accerlerate the adoption of this new form ...
Cell-free Systems for Low & Middle Income Countries | The Living Revolution with Dr. Fernando Guzman
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Fernando Guzman talks with us about Cell-free systems, a method for producing proteins without the laborious process of growing and harvesting cel...
3D Bioelectronics | The Living Revolution with Prof. Roisin Owens
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Roisin Owens tells us about her research into creating 3D biomimetic materials which can be used to model human systems such as the intestinal...
Carbon-Negative Chemical Production | The Living Revolution with Dr. Michael Köpke & Prof. Michael Jewitt
09 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Michael Köpke & Prof. Michael Jewitt talk with us about their work on the carbon-negative production of acetone and isopropanol. These chemic...
Artificial Life | The Living Revolution with Dr. Kerstin Göpfrich
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Kerstin Göpfrich talks with us about her research into creating synthetic cells. We discuss DNA origami, where the line is drawn between syntheti...
Bio-Electronics | The Living Revolution with Prof. Ardemis Boghossian
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Ardemis Boghossian shares with us her research and knowledge into bioelectronics and related fields. This feels like science fiction, but it i...
Microbial Machines | The Living Revolution Ep. 8 with Dr. Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro from Imperial College London shares insight into metabolic engineering, a field of study that allows us to control and manip...
Biomanufacturing | The Living Revolution with Dr. Neil Dixon
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Biomanufacturing uses biology to produce valuable chemicals such as fragrances, food additives, platform chemicals and fuels. This means of manufactur...
Genetically Engineering Plants For a Better Future | The Living Revolution Episode 6 With Prof. Simon Turner
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we discussed genetically engineering plants to improve foor security, nutrition and biofuel production with Proffesor Simon Turner from the Univ...
Recycling Rare Earth Metals with Biology | The Living Revolution Episode 5 with Prof. Loiuse Horsfall
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talked with Prof. Loiuse Horsfall, the programme director for the master's in synthteic biology at the University of Edinburgh. She shar...
Treating Spinal Cord Injuries with Synthetic Biology | The Living Revolution Episode 4 with King's College London iGEM Team
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talk to students from King's College London about their project for the international synthetic biology competition known as iGEM. They ...
Helping Our Oceans With Synthetic Biology | The Living Revolution Episode 3 with University of St Andrews iGEM Team
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Today we talked with the University of St. Andrews iGEM team about their project which aims to use synthetic biology to replace harmful products that ...
Applications of Synthetic Biology | The Living Revolution with Prof. John Ward
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Prof. John Ward runs us through some exciting applications of synthetic biology and where the field might progress in the nea...
What is Synthetic Biology? with Professor John Ward | The Living Revolution
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode we talk to Prof. John Ward, the programme director for MRes Synthetic Biology at University College London. He shared some inc...