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The New Biology

Niko McCarty
Magnetogenetics
Hyperspectral Biology
Innovate Animal Ag
Chickens
Plasmidsaurus
Rna-Seq
Toxic Substances Control Act
Hyperspectral Cameras
Regulatory Policy
Agriculture
Bioremediation

The New Biology features long-form discussions with historians, technologists, and scientists who are working on some of the biggest ideas in biotechnology, from magnet-controlled medicines to virtual cells. Supported by Astera Institute.

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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 healthy. And th... more

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 emerging fie... more

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 unbiased datasets ... more

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 advisor Andre... more

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Robert Yaman
Founder and CEO, Innovate Animal Ag
Innovate Animal Ag
Episode: Biotech for Chickens — Robert Yaman
Yonatan Chemla
Biotechnologist and researcher known for hyperspectral biology work in MIT labs (Field: hyperspectral reporters, sensing in soil, drones)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Episode: Engineered Microbes Seen from the Sky — Yonatan Chemla on Hyperspectral Biology
Adam Green
Founder of Markov Biosciences
Markov Biosciences
Episode: The Bitter Lesson for Biology — Adam Green on Virtual Cells and Scaling Laws
Maria Ingaramo
Biochemist, protein engineer; co-founder of Nonfiction Labs
Nonfiction Laboratories
Episode: Magnet-Controlled Medicines — Andrew York & Maria Ingaramo
Andrew York
Physicist, entrepreneur; co-founder of Nonfiction Labs
Nonfiction Laboratories
Episode: Magnet-Controlled Medicines — Andrew York & Maria Ingaramo
Mark Budde
CEO of Plasmidsaurus
Plasmidsaurus
Episode: Mark Budde - How to speed up wet-lab biology

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The Bitter Lesson for Biology — Adam Green on Virtual Cells and Scaling Laws
Q: What is the thesis behind training virtual cell models on perturbation data versus observational data?
The guest argues that while perturbation data are valuable, the most scalable and robust path is to pre-train on large observational single-cell RNA-seq data and then fine-tune with a small amount of perturbational data, leveraging a loss function that emphasizes ordinal ranking to handle zeros and measurement noise.
Mark Budde - How to speed up wet-lab biology
Q: How do you view data ownership and partnerships with AI labs or frontier models?
Customer data is theirs; Plasmidsaurus does not sell data and supports partnerships that enable data to flow into AI systems with explicit customer control. The goal is to empower researchers and frontier labs to leverage models without compromising data ownership or privacy.
Mark Budde - How to speed up wet-lab biology
Q: What differentiates Plasmidsaurus from traditional CROs in terms of execution and product vision?
We focus on speed, end-to-end automation, a superior UI, and a standardization of analyses so scientists can get high-quality data with minimal effort. This lets researchers focus on interpretation rather than data wrangling, enabling broader and faster scientific progress.

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What is The New Biology about and what kind of topics does it cover?

Tapping into cutting-edge biotech, the show features deep-dive conversations with researchers, founders, and engineers who are building and testing transformative technologies. Episodes center on practical advances like magnetogenetics, virtual cell models, rapid plasmid sequencing, hyperspectral sensing, and AI-driven biology, often balancing technical detail with real-world implications such as regulation, clinical translation, manufacturing scale, and market adoption. A recurring strength is grounding speculative ideas in measurable progress, field experiments, and entrepreneurship stories that illuminate how science moves from concept to impact while navigating ethical, regulatory, and funding landscapes. Listeners likely gain a clear s... more

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