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Bloggingheads: What will power the future?

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I had the pleasure of chatting with Maggie Koerth-Baker again for Bloggingheads Science Saturday, this time talking about the future of energy, how biotechnology might play a role in that future, and the risks involved in new technologies as well as the risks of sticking to old ones. Biosafety and risk assessment are huge and complex issues (and have been in the newsrecently) and we were only able to scratch the surface here so I hope that we can keep this discussion going!

Christina Agapakis is a biologist, designer, and writer with an ecological and evolutionary approach to synthetic biology and biological engineering. Her PhD thesis projects at the Harvard Medical School include design of metabolic pathways in bacteria for hydrogen fuel production, personalized genetic engineering of plants, engineered photosynthetic endosymbiosis, and cheese smell-omics. With Oscillator and Icosahedron Labs she works towards envisioning the future of biological technologies and synthetic biology design.

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