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Grow Everything Biotech Podcast — 193 episodes

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191. Beyond the Lab Bench: Karl & Erum on Human Connections as the Ultimate Biotech Moat

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190. Pour Some Sugar on Yeast: Lisa Roessler Scales Biology at Amyris

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189. Infinite Threads: Recycling Athleisure Waste with Samsara’s Vanessa Vongsouthi

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188. Which Came First: Chicken, Egg, or Medicine? Neion Bio Turns Evolution into a Precision Factory

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187. One Small Step for a Microbe: Lynn Rothschild’s Leap from Astrobiology to Bioengineering at NASA

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186. N.Y. Tech Week Live Demo: Engineering the Future of Manufacturing with Roebling's Brentan Alexander

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185. Brick Happens: Chris Maurer of Redhouse Studio Redesigns Remote Living for Earth and Mars

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184. The Multiverse of Microbes: Henry Lee on Building Cultivarium and Training with Titans

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183. The American Biotech Blueprint: Senator Todd Young on Biodiversity as National Security

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182. SynBioBeta 2026 Recap, It's Biologist Approved

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181. Can Hue Believe It? Gerit Tolborg’s Quest for Pure Color at Chromologics

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180. Fungi in Full Color: Ricky Cassini Reimagines Dye at Michroma

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179. D.C. Climate Week LIVE: The Road to Remake Everything

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178. Pretty in Pigments: Jesse Adler Colors the Future with Pitri

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177. Dye Another Day (REPLAY): The New Way to Color Textiles with Colorifix's Orr Yarkoni

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176. Dare to Commercialize: Damien Perriman’s eXoZymes Playbook

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175. Seaweed Is the New Oil: Mari Granström Builds Origin by Ocean

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174. From Beer to Billions: Kevin Wenger Scales Microbes at Lallemand

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173. They Put the Ore in Organisms: Liz Dennett’s Microbial Mining at Endolith

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172. Generating Needles in Haystacks: Elise de Reus Designs Proteins with Cradle

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171. Nature’s Balance Sheet: Kevin Webb Invests in Biodiversity with Superorganism

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170. There's a Bug for That: Sophia Xu on CarbonBridge's Notebook Bioreactors

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169. AI, Antivenom, and Antibodies: Previewing SynbioBeta with John Cumbers

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168. Biomanufacturing 101: Rebuilding the Modern World with Biology

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167. From Scrappy to Scalable: Daniel Scharff Grows Startup CPG

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166. The Great Reformulation: Joshua Lachter Rethinks How We Make Everything at Scale

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165. Biology Behind the Brands: Inside P&G’s Two-Century Story

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164. From Plasmids to Pallets: How Erin Marasco Scales Biology at Cargill

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163. Consulting the Crystal Ball of Biology: Karl & Erum's 2026 Predictions

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162. New Year’s Replay with New Insights: Orchestrating BioInnovation Without Missing a Beat

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161. (Holiday Replay) Leaf It to Science: How Foray Bioscience's Ashley Beckwith is Reforesting the Future

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160. Sequins Without Sin: Santa Puts Cellsense's Aradhita Parasrampuria on the Nice List

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159. The Future Is Fungi Awards: From Mushroom Dreams to Real-World Things

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158. Mycelium On, Sound Off: How GOB's Lauryn Menard Makes Biomaterials Feel Like Culture

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157. (Thanksgiving Replay) Meat the Future: How Paul Shapiro is Brewing Superfoods at Better Meat Co.

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156. When Matter Makes Decisions: Michael Levin on the Intelligence of Form

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155. Bad Hairdo to Good HairDAO: Andrew Verbinnen on Reversing Hairloss Through Decentralization

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154. No Trees Were Harmed: Symmetry Wood's Gabe Tavas on Growing Wood from Waste

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153. Ghosts of Biotech Past: Veronica Breckenridge’s Playbook for Smarter Scaling

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152. Crystals in the Cosmos: Varda Rewrites Drug Formulation in Microgravity

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151. Report on Reports: Cash Flow, Carbon, and the Bioeconomy

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150. Live at BioFab Fair. Celebrating 150 Episodes!

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149. Beyond Capital: Phil Morle of Main Sequence Ventures on Collaboration as the New Competitive Edge

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148: Wrinkle in Time? OneSkin’s Alessandra Zonari Says Not Anymore

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147: "Shhh…They’re Talking: Holoclara's Dr. Andrea Choe Tunes Into Worm Signals for Health”

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146. Pump It Up: Benji Leibowitz on DAO-ing Science Differently

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145: "Decentralized Science 101: Defining DeSci with the Experts"

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144. Art Meets Agar: Karen Ingram Reimagines Biodesign

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143. Sunscreen from Space? Delavie’s Kyle Landry Turns Space Microbes into Skincare

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142. Petri Dishes & Policy Shifts: Capgemini’s Richard Traherne on Scaling Biology

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141. Gut Check! Viome’s Momo & Guru Decode Your Inner Microbiome

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140. Behind The Scenes with Karl and Erum

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139. Cultivating a Culture of Cultures? Genspace's Casey Lardner on Community Biotech

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138. Living Textures, Wild Pigments: Suzanne Lee on Nature’s New Aesthetic Toolbox

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137. Hack to the Future: Shelby Newsad on Biohacking Breakthroughs

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136. (Replay) DNA of Defense: Alexander Titus on How NSCEB is Advancing Biotech for National Security Challenges

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135. Hormones Harmonized: Elle Shelley Black of Same Skincare on Syncing Skin to Life’s Rhythms

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134. Bio-Logic in Living Designs: bioMATTERS’ Nancy Diniz on Crafting with Biology

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133. Funding, Frameworks & Frenemies: Dr. Angela Belcher of NSCEB Gets Real on the $15B Biotech Boost Plan

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132. Bond. Enzyme Bond. CurieCo's Erika Milczek on Replacing Chemicals with Biotech

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131. Leaf It to Science: How Foray Bioscience's Ashley Beckwith is Reforesting the Future

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130. SynBioBeta 2025 Recap: Hyperscale Biology

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129. No Cells? No Problem! eXoZymes' Michael Heltzen on the Future of Microbe-Free Biotech

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128. Replay of Synbiobeta 2024 Recap with Fresh Commentary

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127. Chain Reaction: Orchestrating BioInnovation Without Missing a Beat – with MessagingLab’s Erum & Karl

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126. Sizzling Success: Eben Bayer of MyForest Foods on Scaling Mycelium Magic

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125. The Synbio Symphony: SynBioBeta’s John Cumbers Harmonizes Biology and Industry

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124. Cell-ebrating Success: Ilan Sobel Blends Science and Strategy to Scale-up BioHarvest

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123. From Gas to Glam: Molly Morse Discusses Mango Materials' Biodegradable Innovations

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122. Ecohacking the Planet: Daniel Goodwin of Homeworld Collective Brews Up Planetary-Scale Solutions

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121. Skin Deep: 'Peeling' Back the Layers of Skin Microbiome Diversity with Fjor's Natalie Enslow

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120. Busting Biotech's Bottlenecks: Veronica Breckenridge on the Path to Industrial Scale

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119: Bio-Reactor or Bio-Rocket? Scaling Up with Arsenale Bio's Massimo Portincaso

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118. Smells Like Biotech Spirit: Bob Weinstein on the Flavors & Fragrances Industry’s Bio-Revolution

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117. From Lab Coats to CEO Notes: BioLabs' Glennis Mehra on Biotech Business in NYC

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116. Cell Yeah for Space!: Pioneer Labs' Erika DeBenedictis on Engineering Life for Mars

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115. Gene-ius at Work: George Church on Climate Hacks & CRISPR Stacks – A Homeworld Collective Interview

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114. BioMADE in America: Crafting the Future of Biomanufacturing with CEO Doug Friedman

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113. Microbe Mission Possible: Noah Helman Discusses iMicrobes' Quest to Turn Waste into Wealth

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112. The Baked-In Future of Science: Nick Edwards on Potato AI’s Quest to Become Your AI Scientist

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111. Space Genes and Subway Scenes: Chris Mason on Planning Life’s Next Big Leap

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110. Culture Shock: What's Brewing for the Bioeconomy in 2025

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109. Long Live Vitalia: The City Where Aging Slows and Innovation Accelerates With Niklas Anzinger

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108. Sequence and Desist: Aclid's Kevin Flyangolts On Safeguarding the Bioeconomy

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107. Glow Big or Go Home: Andy Bass's Journey with Glowing Oceans

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106. Ferment Your Worldview: Jason Kakoyiannis' Recipe for a Bioeconomy Boom

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105. Revisiting Animal Microbiome Health with BiomEdit’s Aaron Schacht – Fresh Commentary

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104. Unseen Worlds: Exploring Environmental Microbiomes and Their Secrets of Human and Climate Impact with Dr. Elizabeth Henaff

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103. DNA of Defense: Alexander Titus on How NSCEB is Advancing Biotech for National Security Challenges

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102. Waste into WOW! Cemvita's Moji Karimi on Turning Carbon Problems into Golden Opportunities

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101. Biotech's Glow Up: How Estée Lauder is Leveling Up Skincare with Rocky Graziose

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100. The Genspace Genesis: How Bio Design Connects People and the Planet with Dan Grushkin

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99. Petri Dish to Podcast: How 100 Episodes Helped Us Grow (and Evolve)

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98. Gotta Get Them All: bitBiome's Quest to Decode All Microbes with Yuji Suzuki

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97. Biohacking 101: Hacking Your Way to Superhuman Performance and Living Longer

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96. Brewing Medicines with Synthetic Biology: Antheia's Christina Smolke on Ending Drug Shortages

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95. Fear, Facts and Frustration: Christina Agapakis on Why Scientists Need to Speak Up

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94. Gaming the System: NVIDIA's Vega Shah on Accelerating Biotech Breakthroughs

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93. Houston, We Have a Protocol: NASA's Kate Rubins on Biotech in Space

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92. Replay: From Fungi to Fun-guy: Eben Bayer Scales Mycelium Again with Bacon at My Forest Foods

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91. Cells Sell: Your Company Can't Ignore Biotech

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90. Flipping the Light Switch on Cells: Deniz Kent of Prolific Machines

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89. Grow Everything Live! A Spotlight on Scaling Biology with Ginger Dosier of Biomason and BIOME Consortia

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88. Daring Dreams and Deep Tech: The Bison Ventures Blueprint for Big Wins with Ari Wright

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87. From Fossil Fuels to Future Foods: Australia's Brilliant Bioeconomic Makeover with GW3's Kylie Porter

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86. Networking Natural Selection 2.0: Next Level Biotech Networking with Karl & Erum

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85. Always Be Brewing: Continuous Fermentation with Cauldron's Michele Stansfield

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84. 4th of July Replay: The Biomanufacturing Cloud with Synonym's Edward Shenderovich * New Commentary *

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83. Bottoms Up: Microbe Mixology with Zbiotics' Zack Abbott

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82. Future Sci is DeSci: SVN's Michael Fischer on Memefying Science Breakthroughs

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81. Microalgae Marvels: Checkerspot’s Charles Dimmler’s Super Oil for Skis, Skin and Supper

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80. Future Fun: A 2054 Episode Beamed to 2024

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79. Decentralize and Thrive: AthenaDAO’s Blockchain Boosts Women's Health with Laura Minquini.

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78. From Petri to Pillar: Culturing Entrepreneurship with Tony Kulesa

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77. AI x Biotech, Psychedelics, Mars and more at Synbiobeta 2024!!

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76. Not Boring Century of Biotech with Elliot Hershberg

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75. Dye Another Day: The New Way to Color Textiles with Colorifix's Orr Yarkoni

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74. Culturing Cures: Murali Muthuswamy’s Revolution in Living Medicines

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73. At the Bleeding Edge: Cresilon's Joe Landolina on Rapid Wound Care

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72. Zero Gravity, Infinite Possibilities: New Biologies in Space with Elizabeth Reynolds of Starburst Aerospace

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71. Squid Pro Quo: Tandem Repeat's Melik Demirel Reinvents Clothing with Squitex

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70. Networking Natural Selection: Adapting and Thriving in the Biotech Ecosystem with Erum and Karl

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69. Stress Less and Impress: Matereal's Jackie Amable Announces Million-Fold Safer Textile Coating

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68. Sowing Seeds of Change: ValleyDAO's Albert Anis Cultivates Climate Solutions

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67. Plastic Eaters & Turbo Trees: Synbio & Climate Conversations with Tara Shirvani

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66. From Waste to Wardrobe: Tomtex's Ross McBee on Spinning Sustainability into Style

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65. Scaling Cells, Dreaming Big: The Biomanufacturing Cloud with Synonym’s Edward Shenderovich

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64. Swaying Away from Plastics: Julia Marsh's Seaweed Solutions

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63. From Silicon to Sequences: DNA Data Storage with DNALI's Kyle Tomek

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62. Microbes, Memes and Missions to Mars: John Cumbers' Wild Synbio World

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61. Living in a Material World: Karl at Biofabricate 2024

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60. Edible Air Fare: Solar Foods' Unique Microbe Turns CO2 into Protein

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59. Cementing Change: How Ginger Dosier's Biomason is Paving a Greener Path

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58. Beyond Outsourcing: Erum Discovers India's Not Just Playing Lab Assistant

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57. Climatech is Biotech. Kristin Ellis of Lowercarbon Capital Replay

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56. Sowing Seeds, Germinating Biotech Buzz: Grow Everything is One Year Old

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55. Nature Healing Nature -- Faster. Allonnia's Nicole Richards Replay

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54. Money, Molecules, and Mind-Benders: Seth Yakatan Returns, Nuff Said

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53. From Microbes to Mega Ventures: 'Brewing Success with 2048 Ventures' Julie Wolf

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52. Thanksgiving Replay: Orbillion’s Better For You Beef

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51. Cell-Free, Problem-Free: Enzyme Alchemy with Alex Rosay at Cascade Biocatalysts

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50. The Dye-Hard Innovator: Natsai Chieza Designs Change for the Fashion Industry and the World

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49. From Edibles to Medicals: Jellatech’s Stephanie Michelsen Uncovers the Multiple Uses of Collagen & Gelatin

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48. Belly of the Beast: How BiomEdit's Aaron Schacht Cashes in on Animal Microbiomes for Health & Profit.

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47. Berry Controversial: A Candid Chat with Kevin Folta on Science and Scandal

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46. Meat the Future: How Paul Shapiro is Brewing Superfoods at Better Meat Co.

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45. Insuring Your Lunch: Aanika’s Vishaal Bhuyan Cracks the Microbial Code of Food Security

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44. Spec-Tacular Science: A Chat with Michael Specter on Denying Denialism

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43. Emission Impossible: Lanzatech’s Zara Summers on Converting Carbon into Cash

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42. An Algae-nius Solution to Big Textile with Keel Lab’s Tessa Callaghan

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41. From Spinal Taps To Cellular Apps: Programming Life With Mark Kotter

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40. Moon Landings, Forever Chemicals, and Hogfish Skin: Erum & Karl’s Labor Day Bio Bonanza!

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39. From Microbe to Unicorn: IndieBio's Sabriya Stukes on the Journey of Biotech Startups

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38. Back From The Dead And Ready To Party: Passenger Pigeons, De-extinction, & Cloning with Revive & Restore's Ben Novak

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37. Biotech Business Stories, Dangerous Giveaways, and Cultivated Meat with Karl and Erum

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36. Pearl of Wisdom: Shaping Genomic Therapies & Community Research with Dr. Jocelynn Pearl

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35. Unlocking the Gene-ius of AI-Powered Biology: Teselagen's Eduardo Abeliuk

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34. Bugging Out with Josh Robinson: Cocoon Biosciences Metamorphic Journey

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33. Purple Reign, A Purple Tomato with a Genetic Twist, Nathan Pumplin of Norfolk Healthy Produce

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32. 4th of July Replay: Sweet Dreams with Ali Wing *NEW COMMENTARY*

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31. No Bones About It: Brewing Human and Vegan Collagens with Geltor's Alex Lorestani

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30. Breaking into Biotech: Linnea Fletcher's Inclusive Education and Workforce Upskilling at InnovATEBIO

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29. Gut Check with Stephanie Culler: Persephone’s Quest for Microbiome Breakthroughs

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28. Genetic Dreams to Underground Regimes: Andrew Hessel Takes on Digital and Physical Biology

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27. Charting the Unexplored Microverse for Biological Gold with CULTIVARIUM’s Nili Ostrov

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Hello From Oakland. We're Schmoozing at SynBioBeta. BRB.

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26. Breaking Bad Hair Habits with Biology: Suveen Sahib's K18 Rescues Your Strands

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25. From Lab to Table: Meat Orbillion's Better-For-You Beef

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24. From Fungi to Fun-guy: Eben Bayer Scales Mycelium Again with Bacon at My Forest Foods

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23. Biology is Hard. Bioconcrete is Harder. Prometheus Materials' Loren Burnett

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22. Sweet Dreams Are Made of Proteins: Oobli's Ali Wing

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21. The Venn Diagram of Climate and Biology is a Circle: Kristin Ellis of Lowercarbon Capital

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20. The Butterfly Effect: Sustainable High-Performance Materials from Micro-Algae

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19. Fashion Forward: PANGAIA, a Material Science Company Disguised as Fashion Brand

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18. Kombucha Leather, Spider Silk and Space with Biofabricate's Suzanne Lee

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17. Beauty and the Biome with Jasmina Aganovic of Arcaea

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16. Getting Schooled with BioBuilder

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15. Meet the Willy Wonka of Algae. Elliot Roth.

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14. Cannabis & Biotech. Nuff Said.

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13. Waste Is A Failure of Imagination. Meet Nicole Richards of Allonia

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12. Oral Microbes, New Religion and a Galactic Takeover. Introducing John Cumbers.

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11. Putting Money Where Your Microbe Is. Investing in Biotech

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10. Season One Done. What You Missed and What's Next

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9. The 1000-Foot View: Where Synbio Is and Where it Could Be

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8. Biology For All: How Genspace Grows the Bioeconomy

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7. Waste is the New Gold: How Polybion Grows Luxury Biomaterials Part 2

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6. Waste is the New Gold: How Polybion Grows Luxury Biomaterials Part 1

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5. Dreaming in Biology: Tales from the Ginkgo Bioworks Studio

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4. Insuring Food Safety? Yes! With DNA Barcodes in SPORES!

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3. Saving Rainforests By Brewing Fats And Oils

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2. The Biotech Century with Megan Palmer

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1. Introduction to Grow Everything

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