NEW Disruptive podcast: Star Wars-inspired Video Project Yields Discovery at Nanoscale
Written on January 6th, 2018Seen the new Star Wars movie? Check out The Beginning, a 3 minute Star Wars
inspired video with sperm as X-wing fighters competing to fertilize an egg.
“Only one will dictate the future for generations to come…” Don Ingber and
Charles Reilly discuss their creative project aimed at better communicating
science to the public …and how they made a scientific discovery along the way.
Disruptive #10: Sports Genomics
Written on April 2nd, 2017With 100 trillion cells in the human body, bacteria outnumber our own human cells 2 to 1. These bacteria make up one’s microbiome and play a role in our health, development and wellness, including endurance, recovery and mental aptitude.
In this episode of Disruptive, Wyss Core Faculty member George Church and research fellow Jonathan Scheiman explore this provocative question: What if we could tap the gut bacteria of elite athletes to produce customized probiotics – and what if those probiotics could give recipients access to some of the biological advantages that make those athletes elite?
Disruptive #7: FISSEQ – Fluorescent In Situ Sequencing
Written on October 7th, 2016Until recently, to analyze many mRNAs simultaneously, scientists had to grind cells to a pulp, which left them unable to pinpoint those mRNAs within the cell. Developed by a team at the Wyss and Harvard Medical School, FISSEQ allows scientists to pinpoint thousands of mRNAs and other types of RNAs at once in intact cells, and stands to revolutionize clinical diagnostics and drug discovery.
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Disruptive#6: Rapid, Low-cost, Paper-based Test for Zika
Written on June 24th, 2016
Disruptive #5: Molecular Robotics – Building with DNA
Written on April 5th, 2016
DISRUPTIVE – the podcast from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
We’re learning to take advantage of properties of DNA that have served nature well- but in ways nature may have never pursued. We build with it. We tap its capacity to carry information to enhance our ability to explore the inner life of cells.
In this episode, Wyss faculty members William Shih, Wesley Wong and Peng Yin share what it’s like being on the frontier of science, explain how and why they program DNA, and consider potential applications of their work.
Disruptive: Molecular Robotics transcript