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The New Biology

by Niko McCarty
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  • How to Design Flowers — Nick Desnoyer

    October 8, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

    Nick Desnoyer, a plant biologist in Norwich, England, is designing and creating flowers that don’t exist anywhere in nature. In this interview, he reveals his next project: Paintunia, a petunia that acts as a living canvas. These petunias…

  • How to Terraform Mars – Erika DeBenedictis

    September 22, 2026 · 51 min

    Pioneer Labs, a nonprofit research group, has engineered a microbe that eats Martian dirt and excretes bioplastic. It is the first step of their "five organism" plan to terraform Mars and make the planet habitable. This interview is with…

  • SpudCell will replicate continuously by 2030 | Kate Adamala

    September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 26 min

    Chemists at the University of Minnesota, led by Kate Adamala, recently built a synthetic cell that eats, grows, and divides; purely by putting together molecules in the laboratory. Their creation, called SpudCell, can only divide for five…

  • Biotech for Chickens — Robert Yaman

    August 4, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min

    A dairy cow is worth $1,000 to $2,000 to a farmer, whereas a broiler chicken, raised for meat, generates just $4 of profit. Quantifying animals this way may feel uncomfortable, but those $4 are all a farmer can spend to keep a chicken…

  • Engineered Microbes Seen from the Sky — Yonatan Chemla on Hyperspectral Biology

    July 21, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min

    Scientists have studied bacteria under microscopes for 400 years. But Yonatan Chemla, a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, has developed a technology that lets us see microbes from a drone 100 meters in the air. In this episode, we discuss the…

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  • The Bitter Lesson for Biology — Adam Green on Virtual Cells and Scaling Laws

    June 12, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min

    Markov Biosciences, a startup in San Francisco, is betting that biology is about to have its GPT moment. In this episode, founder Adam Green explains the "bitter lesson" for biology, the idea borrowed from Richard Sutton that large…

  • Magnet-Controlled Medicines — Andrew York & Maria Ingaramo

    May 29, 2026 · 2 hr 8 min

    Nonfiction Laboratories is building a technology called “magnetogenetics” that promises to control proteins inside the body — such as antibodies or enzymes — using small magnets. In this episode, co-founder Maria Ingaramo and scientific…

  • Mark Budde - How to speed up wet-lab biology

    May 8, 2026 · 58 min

    Plasmidsaurus took plasmid sequencing from $600 to $15 and turned a "boring" service company idea into a hugely successful company serving 70,000+ scientists. In this episode, CEO Mark Budde and Niko McCarty get into the bigger question…

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About the show

The New Biology features long-form discussions with historians, technologists, and scientists working on the biggest ideas in biotechnology, from magnet-controlled medicines to virtual cells.