Imagine if one day we could grow our buildings! In this episode, hear how one company is already developing radical biotechnologies to innovate the construction industry and beyond.
Dr Ehab Sayed, Founder and Chief Evolution Officer at BIOHM, discusses how biotechnologies such as mycelium - the root structure of fungi - help to accelerate the transition to a ... Show More
Today
What’s next for the plastics industry?
Over the past decade, leading businesses have shown that progress on plastic pollution is possible. And while individual company action has been successful, even the most ambitious businesses are running up against the same obstacles. As a result, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation h ... Show More
17m 16s
Feb 24
The hidden drivers enabling the circular economy
What do some of the more surprising stories of scale teach us about implementing the circular economy? In this episode of the Circular Economy Show, Fin is joined by Rachel O’Reilly, Global Human Sustainability Design Director at Accenture, to discuss their upcoming report. The r ... Show More
24m 14s
Feb 17
Circular snapshots: Competitiveness, critical minerals & textiles EPR
Welcome back to The Circular Economy Show and another episode of Circular Snapshots, where we unpack the headlines shaping the transition to a circular economy.This month, Seb explores the EU’s upcoming Circular Economy Act and its shift toward positioning circularity as industri ... Show More
6m 7s
Sep 2023
Business and science: How risky is SynBio?
For all the exciting developments in the synthetic biology industry, there are also concerns. People can edit genes in their garages these days, so who’s regulating this space?Plus - we’ll hear about the exciting new business models with biology at their core, including one of th ... Show More
17m 26s
Jun 2021
Moderna: The Software of Life - [Business Breakdowns, EP. 13]
Today, we will be diving into Moderna. Founded in 2010, Moderna and its innovative RNA platform made headlines after developing one of the first COVID vaccines. We treated this Breakdown slightly different than our other episodes. I’m joined today by two guests. First, I am joine ... Show More
1h 9m
Jan 2024
106: Building Blocks of Civilization: How the World Really Works
"Modern economies will always be tied to massive material flows, whether those of ammonia-based fertilizers to feed the still-growing global population; plastics, steel, and cement needed for new tools, machines, structures, and infrastructures; or new inputs required to produce ... Show More
1h 18m
Jul 2017
Genomics, Machine Learning, and the Future of Big Data in Medicine | Eric Schadt
<p>In Episode 15 of <a href="https://www.hiddenforces.io">Hidden Forces</a>, host Demetri Kofinas speaks with Dr. Eric Schadt. Eric Schadt is founder and CEO of Sema4, as well as Dean of Precision Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. During the course of his 2 ... Show More
1h 4m
Nov 2022
Savills Earth Series – Episode 3, Biodiversity
In the third episode of our Savills Earth podcast series, our experts discuss biodiversity, what it is and why it’s important to us all. Our guests explore why it is now one of the moment’s buzz words, recent legislation and government commitments that are driving legislation as ... Show More
28m 20s
<p>Welcome to <a href="https://a16z.com/2020/09/22/biology-aging/" target="_blank">the first episode of Bio Eats World</a>, a brand <a href="https://a16z.com/bio-eats-world-podcast/" target="_blank">new podcast</a> all about how biology <i>is</i> technology. Bio is breaking out o ... Show More