E38: Transforming yeast into factories with Asia Vighi

E38: Transforming yeast into factories with Asia Vighi

Released Friday, 1st December 2023
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E38: Transforming yeast into factories with Asia Vighi

E38: Transforming yeast into factories with Asia Vighi

E38: Transforming yeast into factories with Asia Vighi

E38: Transforming yeast into factories with Asia Vighi

Friday, 1st December 2023
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Yeast is everywhere. We use it to make bread and beer but it’s a fungus with its own biology. Science is turning to yeast once again to make wonderful things for us. We can bioengineer it to turn its natural processes into building compounds that humans can use, like medicine. That’s the research being done by this episode’s guest, Asia Vighi, a PhD student in Bioengineering at McGill University. Katie and Vinny talk about heat sensing and how babies feel pain.

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