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The Biorevolution Podcast
The Biorevolution Podcast with Andreas Horchler and Louise von Stechow – father and daughter, journalist and biologist, talking about the technologies of the biorevolution. Can genetic engineering, synthetic biology, and artificial intelligence save humanity from disease, climate change, and overpopulation, or are these technologies the first step towards its downfall? Content and Editing: Louise von Stechow and Andreas Horchler Disclaimer: Louise von Stechow, Andreas Horchler and their guests…
Episodes
The Biorevolution PodcastAI, the Brain, and the Biology of Intelligence
The Biorevolution Podcast The entry of artificial intelligence into mainstream life gives us a chance to think about the meaning of intelligence – human and…
The Biorevolution PodcastLiving and Learning in the Metaverse: Stepping Inside Scientific Data
The BioRevolution Podcast - Episode 52 For centuries, scientists have relied on visual representations to make sense of the world, from anatomical drawings and…
The Biorevolution PodcastLab-in-the-Loop: AI bridges to the wet lab
The BioRevolution Podcast - Episode 51 Artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming part of the scientific process itself. Beyond analyzing data or…
The Biorevolution PodcastThe good, the bad and the overhyped - 4 years of biomedical AI on the BioRevolution podcast
The BioRevolution Podcast - Episode 50 The BioRevolution podcast has now reached 50 episodes. One topic, however, has come up again and again: artificial…
The Biorevolution PodcastNature’s origami– DNA nanotechnology
The BioRevolution Podcast - Episode 49 DNA nanotechnology treats DNA not primarily as a carrier of genetic information, but as a programmable material. Based…
The Biorevolution PodcastFrom biohacking to healthcare- the growing pains of the longevity industry
The BioRevolution Podcast - Episode 48 From Biohacking to Healthcare- the growing pain of the Longevity Industry Shownotes the BioRevolution podcast episode 48…
The Biorevolution PodcastAI driven protein design- beyond nature's blueprint
The BioRevolution Podcast - Episode 47 Nature has “gifted” us proteins that carry out a vast array of functions in cells, shaping the lives of all organisms…
The Biorevolution PodcastFrom Animals to Algorithms: How AI Brings Drug Testing Closer to Human Biology
The BioRevolution Podcast - Episode 46 Animal models have been the mainstay for testing hypotheses about human diseases and their treatment in academic…
The Biorevolution PodcastFrom Bench to Mic – Demystifying Science
The BioRevolution Podcast - Episode 45 From Bench to Mic – Demystifying Science In our complex world, science can be an important guiding thread for…
The Biorevolution PodcastInto the dark – finding meaning within the depth of our proteome
The BioRevolution Podcast - Episode 44 For decades, biology treated the human genome as a tidy instruction manual—genes neatly encoding proteins, surrounded by…
The Biorevolution PodcastEverything Everywhere All at Once: Mapping the Bigger Picture with Macroscopes
The BioRevolution Podcast - Episode 43 We’re living in the big data age, surrounded by personal, scientific, and societal data that could help us understand…
The Biorevolution PodcastThe Rare Lens: AI-based image recognition for rare disease diagnoses
The Biorevolution Podcast - Epsiode 42 The Rare Lens: AI-based image recognition for rare disease diagnoses There are around 6000 rare diseases, which affect…
The Biorevolution PodcastVirtual cells - Decoding life's basic units
The Biorevolution Podcast - Episode 41 Cells are the basic units of life. For over a century, understanding cellular processes has been the basis for…
The Biorevolution PodcastThe 8 Essentials For Overcoming Cancer
The BioRevolution Podcast - Episode 49 Every second man and every third woman will experience a cancer diagnosis during their lives. Getting the news can be…
The Biorevolution PodcastCreative Matter: Where Art Meets Science
The biorevolution podcast #39 This time Louise and Andreas invited the artist Annette Goessel into the show to discuss the once united forces of art and…
The Biorevolution PodcastOut of the Lab, Into the Code: An Age of AI Scientists?
The biorevolution podcast #38 It sounds promising: AI chatbots acting as scientists, condensing the work of weeks, months, or even years of reading, debate…
The Biorevolution PodcastMedical machines get smarter - AI in Medtech
The biorevolution podcast #37 The $600 billion MedTech industry is undergoing a technological transformation. From AI-powered medical imaging to smart…
The Biorevolution PodcastWe are what we eat – The future of food
The biorevolution podcast #36 Food is a topic that is both deeply personal and of global importance. What we eat affects our health and longevity, but also the…
The Biorevolution PodcastNew tech, new talent, new challenges – pharma leadership in the age of AI
The biorevolution podcast #35 Despite great hopes for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in biotech and pharma—with investments exceeding $50 billion over the past…
The Biorevolution PodcastIlluminating the Dark Genome – New Insights into the Genetic Basis of Disease
The biorevolution podcast #34 More than 20 years after the Human Genome Project, enabled by new sequencing technologies, researchers are making progress in…
The Biorevolution PodcastThe biochemistry of the mystical – a psychedelics renaissance?
The biorevolution podcast #33 When the Swiss chemist synthesized and tested the psychedelic compound LSD in the 1930s, he knew he had found a tool to explore…
The Biorevolution PodcastA question of trust - Why we need science
The biorevolution podcast #32 This time on the BioRevolution podcast Andreas Horchler and Louise von Stechow discuss science itself. While recent surveys show…
The Biorevolution PodcastMore Boom or…Bust – What to expect from AI in biotech in 2025?
The biorevolution podcast #31 In some respects, 2024 has been a record year for AI in biotech, with the $1 billion founding of the antibody-centered biotech…
The Biorevolution PodcastNew year old me – no biohacks needed
The biorevolution podcast #31 2025: For millions of people, the new year starts with the self-promise to improve, to quit smoking, alcohol, to get in shape, to…
The Biorevolution PodcastThe science of stress – a cortisol conspiracy
The biorevolution podcast #29 Modern humans are stressed creatures: overloaded schedules, constantly “on-call,” and social media haunting us into the late…
The Biorevolution PodcastScientific Communication - Telling Stories that Matter
The biorevolution podcast #28 Science can be complex and difficult to grasp, yet public understanding is crucial for navigating issues like disease risk…
The Biorevolution PodcastAI in drug development – Expanding the option space
The biorevolution podcast #27 In the expensive and failure-prone process of drug development, artificial intelligence (AI) can serve both as an efficiency tool…
The Biorevolution PodcastThe future of medicine - trends, technologies and skills
The biorevolution podcast #26 How will the medicine of the future look? Healthcare and medicine are on the verge of transformative change, driven by new…
The Biorevolution PodcastUpdate on LLMs - hope, hype and hallucination
The biorevolution podcast #25 Some 36 months after the release of ChatGPT, the verdict is still out on the role that large language models (LLMs) will play in…
The Biorevolution PodcastArtificial intelligence - Hope for rare disease patients?
The biorevolution podcast #24 Rare or orphan diseases affect only a small percentage of the population and often lack effective treatments. While rare…
The Biorevolution PodcastNew biotechnologies - Revolution or evolution?
The biorevolution podcast #24 When we think about revolutions, we think of systemic changes in politics, economics, and lifestyles. Revolutions transform how…
The Biorevolution PodcastPolygenic risk scores – The Truth in our Genes
The biorevolution podcast #22 Polygenic risk scores (PRS), put simply, look at gene variants across the human genome in order to determine an individual's risk…
The Biorevolution PodcastCell rejuvenation – Resetting the biological clock
The biorevolution podcast #21 Aging is a dynamic process characterized by the accumulation of cell damage, tissue, and organ degeneration, and diminished…
The Biorevolution PodcastWomen’s Health - Humanity’s other half
The biorevolution podcast #21 Women make up about half of humanity. Yet, the medical community and the pharmaceutical and biotech industries have long adopted…
The Biorevolution PodcastmRNA Therapeutics - New applications for an old molecule
The biorevolution podcast #19 RNA, one of the oldest and most versatile biomolecules, has recently entered the therapeutic arena. While for many observers the…
The Biorevolution PodcastOzempic & co – A new era of weight loss?
The biorevolution podcast #18 In principle the solution to the problem of overweight should be very easy: eat less and exercise more.But anyone who’s ever…
The Biorevolution PodcastCRISPR CAS – Life’s processing tool
The biorevolution podcast #17 Gene editing technology allows humans, for the first time, to change the code of life with a precise editing system offering the…
The Biorevolution PodcastSynthetic Biology - Rewriting Life
The biorevolution podcast #16 Synthetic biology - the artificial creation of biological molecules, cells, and even organisms - has the potential to…
The Biorevolution PodcastBig data in pharma - From garbage to gold
The biorevolution podcast #15 In our data-heavy age, data becomes a treasure, a currency, a valuable good. This is true especially for the biotech and…
The Biorevolution PodcastDe-extinction - A mammoth project
The biorevolution podcast #14 The rapid spread of humans is causing many species to disappear off the face of the earth – in a so-called mass extinction. Some…
The Biorevolution Podcast365 days We're doomed we're saved
The biorevolution podcast #13 **** GERMAN EPISODE **** Ein Jahr We're doomed we're saved - seiten einem Jahr sprechen Andreas Horchler und Louise von Stechow…
The Biorevolution PodcastFollow the money - Die Geldquellen der Biowissenschaften
The biorevolution podcast #12 **** GERMAN EPISODE **** Follow the money, folge dem Geld, ist eine alte Weisheit wenn man den Kern einer Angelegenheit verstehen…
The Biorevolution PodcastDie Zukunft der Pharmaindustrie - Neue Technologien und Modelle
The biorevolution podcast #12 **** GERMAN EPISODE **** Wie werden neue Technologien, wie die künstliche Intelligenz die Pharmaindustrie beeinflussen? Welche…
The Biorevolution PodcastBiohackers - Die Garagenwissenschaftler
The biorevolution podcast #10 **** GERMAN EPISODE **** Biohacker experimentieren an sich selbst, führen genetische Modifikationen durch, implantieren…
The Biorevolution PodcastChatGPT - The rise of the chatbots
The biorevolution podcast #9 **** GERMAN EPISODE **** ChatGPT, das Large Language Model von OpenAI ist in aller Munde. Von Untergangsszenarien in denen der…
The Biorevolution PodcastLongevity- Who wants to live forever?
The biorevolution podcast #8 GERMAN EPISODE Seit Anbeginn der Menschheit beschäftigt uns die Frage, warum wir altern, warum wir sterben müssen. In der neuen…
The Biorevolution PodcastKünstliche Intelligenz – Der vorhersagbare Mensch
The biorevolution podcast #7 GERMAN EPISODE Künstliche Intelligenz könnte dabei helfen, Krankheiten zu erkennen und zu heilen, Ärzten eine schnellere oder…
The Biorevolution PodcastNeuroprosthetics - Das Zeitalter der Cyborgs
The biorevolution podcast #6 GERMAN EPISODE Prothesen, die mit dem Nervensystem verbundenen werden, können Menschen mit Einschränkungen helfen verlorene…
The Biorevolution PodcastBiowaffen - Neue Möglichkeiten und alte Ängste
The biorevolution podcast #5 GERMAN EPISODE Biowaffen haben zum Glück in der Geschichte der Menschheit nur selten Anwendung gefunden – sind sie doch zu…
The Biorevolution PodcastGene drives - Menschengemachte Evolution
The biorevolution podcast #4 GERMAN EPISODE Sogenannte Gene Drives sind spezielle Genveränderungsmethoden, die es Wissenschaftlern zum ersten Mal erlauben die…
The Biorevolution PodcastEditiertes Erbgut - Reparaturen und Upgrades
The biorevolution podcast #3 GERMAN EPISODE Gentherapien und Geneditierungsverfahren versprechen die Heilung von Krankheiten von Hämophilie bis Krebs. Sie…
The Biorevolution PodcastEndliche Antibiotika - Die vertane Chance
The biorevolution podcast #2 GERMAN EPISODE Antibiotika wurden einst als Heilbringer der Menschheit gefeiert und haben dazu beigetragen die durchschnittliche…
The Biorevolution PodcastDie Biorevolution - Risiken und Versprechen
The biorevolution podcast #1 GERMAN EPISODE Die Biorevolution bringt viele neue Technologien, mit großen Versprechungen, aber auch unkalkulierbaren Risiken. In…