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17:33
Geoffrey West
The surprising math of cities and corporations
9:47
Louie Schwartzberg
Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.
9:08
Drew Berry
Animations of unseeable biology
12:47
Jay Bradner
Open-source cancer research
14:37
Martin Hanczyc
The line between life and not-life
13:48
Jonathan Drori
The beautiful tricks of flowers
9:40
Fiorenzo Omenetto
Silk, the ancient material of the future
12:45
Edith Widder
The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence
4:13
Nina Tandon
Caring for engineered tissue
6:40
Suzanne Lee
Grow your own clothes
18:51
Christoph Adami
Finding life we can't imagine
10:25
Angela Belcher
Using nature to grow batteries
10:07
Kate Orff
Reviving New York's rivers -- with oysters!
17:48
Tyrone Hayes + Penelope Jagessar Chaffer
The toxic baby
19:42
Paul Root Wolpe
It's time to question bio-engineering
17:34
Gero Miesenboeck
Re-engineering the brain
15:14
Heribert Watzke
The brain in your gut
18:30
Dimitar Sasselov
How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets
13:50
Stefano Mancuso
The roots of plant intelligence
14:08
Rachel Sussman
The world's oldest living things
18:17
Craig Venter
Watch me unveil "synthetic life"
18:12
Mike deGruy
Hooked by an octopus
16:46
Simon Berrow
How do you save a shark you know nothing about?
14:28
Cheryl Hayashi
The magnificence of spider silk
19:58
Stephen Wolfram
Computing a theory of all knowledge
6:51
Kevin Stone
The bio-future of joint replacement
7:12
Jonathan Drori
Every pollen grain has a story
6:11
Frederick Balagadde
Bio-lab on a microchip
19:02
Dan Barber
How I fell in love with a fish
5:34
Juliana Machado Ferreira
The fight to end rare-animal trafficking in Brazil
18:13
Mark Roth
Suspended animation is within our grasp
18:23
Pawan Sinha
How brains learn to see
16:38
Charles Anderson
Dragonflies that fly across oceans
7:43
Vilayanur Ramachandran
The neurons that shaped civilization
20:19
David Blaine
How I held my breath for 17 minutes
17:52
Anthony Atala
Growing new organs
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