Podcasts
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Podcast: Jamie Metzl’s ‘Hacking Darwin’—The end of sex and humanity’s genetically engineered future
Imagine a world in which would-be parents no longer have sex but conceive children with the assistance of embryo selection ...
Podcast: Synthetic ‘light switch’ boosts photosynthesis to increase crop yields
One of the limiting factors in photosynthesis is the plant’s ability to take up carbon dioxide to assimilate into carbohydrates ...
Podcast: 7 modern pest control tools that protect our food from hungry bugs
Need to manage a pest problem? Luckily, there are many ways to do that! From physical to biological and chemical ...
Podcast: What would have happened if Darwin and Mendel had been on Twitter?
Where would we be now if Darwin and Mendel had been on Twitter? ...
Podcast: How a bad night’s sleep can damage your DNA
On this episode of Talking Biotech, University of Florida researchers Kevin Folta and Brady Holmer tackle two pressing questions in ...
Podcast: Recycling 190 million pounds of pesticide containers to promote sustainable agriculture
Ag recycles! On this episode of Biotech Facts and Fallacies, plant scientist Steve Savage delves into the world of agricultural ...
Podcast: How AI is boosting treatment of PTSD
Only about 10% of the individuals with mental health issues in the US are getting any sort of treatment that ...
Podcast: Healthier cooking oil from biotech soybeans helps battle heart disease, diabetes
Soybeans produce abundant cooking oil, popular with both consumers and the food service industry. However, soybean oil isn't always the ...
Podcast: ‘Artificial womb’ raises awkward ethical questions about abortion, child welfare and health freedom
Biotechnology is fundamentally changing food and medicine. Thanks to genetic engineering, for example, we have access vitamin-fortified GMO crops, plentiful ...
Podcast: AquaBounty to begin raising GMO AquAdvantage salmon in US as soon as April 2019
A land-based fish farm in East Central Indiana will begin raising AquAdvantage Salmon, genetically engineered Atlantic salmon, as soon as ...
Podcast: Plant geneticist Kevin Folta explains how to combat consumer fear of GMOs
Dr. Kevin Folta discusses science communication (the communication of science-related topics to non-experts). Part of his work is helping people ...
Podcast: ‘Just the wife’—how sexism in science obscured achievements of four groundbreaking researchers
Dr Kat Arney tells the stories of four women from the history of 20th century genetics, and explores how sexism ...
Podcast: GMO AquAdvantage salmon headed for US grocery stores after 15 years of regulatory review
When the transgenic AquAdvantage salmon was first developed in 1989, the goal was simple: engineer a fast-growing fish that required ...
Podcast: Genesis of GMOs—How the tools of biotechnology came to be
Following some groundbreaking experiments in the early 1970s, biologists discovered they could move DNA between species. This development launched the ...
Podcast: Geneticist Mary-Claire King nearly quit science—then discovered the first breast cancer gene
Mary-Claire King's stellar career has covered human and chimp evolution, finding BRCA1 and reuniting families that have been torn apart ...
Podcast: Anthony Warner, ‘The Angry Chef,’ debunks fad diets and popular food ‘pseudoscience’
Anthony Warner is known as The Angry Chef, achieving notoriety for critically analyzing the social movements that pop up around ...
Podcast: Primer on bees, varroa mites and the ‘beepocalypse’ that never was
This time it’s all about the bees! From the composition of a working hive to the diseases that plague honey ...
US researchers moving abroad to avoid FDA’s CRISPR-edited animal regulations
Alison Van Eenennaam offers a critical look at stifling US animal gene-editing rules ...
What can we learn from Mendel’s peas, onions and GM tomatoes?
A quick look at Gregor Mendel's groundbreaking peas, 'junk' DNA and the first GMO crop ...
Tomorrow’s scientists developing CRISPR-edited crops to boost sustainable farming
Three graduate students highlight their efforts to breed disease-resistant crops and teach science to consumers ...
Podcast: Roundup resistance—new tactics help farmers keep glyphosate-resistant weeds in check
Weed resistance to herbicides has no field boundaries....Jeff Evans is an ecologist and the owner of Farmscape Analytics, LLC. He ...
Big Fat Failure
A closer look at the genetics of failure—why we fail to lose weight thanks to our genes ...
Neutralizing toxic military explosives with GMO plants
Military preparedness means testing ammunition in controlled field trials, as well as decommissioning obsolete weaponry. The result is a significant ...
‘Factory farming’ poisons our food and harms animals?
Veterinarian Dr. Leah Dorman takes on popular myths about animal agriculture ...
Talking Biotech: Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat debunks flawed glyphosate-cancer meta-analysis. Were the mistakes deliberate?
A skeptical look at the latest glyphosate-cancer study reveals critical errors ...
Podcast: Celebrating Charles Darwin’s 210th birthday
[February 12 was] Darwin Day. Charles Darwin was born 210 years ago … . Ten years ago I went to a ...
Talking Biotech: Ethos Chocolate—the pro-GMO candy brand winning over biotech skeptics
Ethos chocolate hypes its use of GMO ingredients to promote crop biotechnology ...