Discovery Matters

A pandemic starts with a picnic. But can pandemics be prevented without cancelling feel-good gatherings? Enter Artificial Intelligence into the world of healthcare and life sciences. Dodi meets up with an expert panel on the topic and gets examples of the real potential of this very trendy topic. Transcript Keywords:pandemics, ai, data, infectious diseases, healthcare, outbreak, ebola outbreak, ebola crisis, predict, data sources, spread, humanitarian, infections.

Dodi and Conor discover how jam played a part in paving the way for biopharmaceutical drugs. 60 years ago, Swedish scientists happened upon a new method of protein separation through chromatography. The very same technique continues to be the foundation for modern biomedical manufacturing. Transcript Keywords: protein separation, chromatography, dextran, jam, protein, gel, Swedish, pectin, affinity chromatography, develop, column, antibodies, separate, pharmacy, sugar, biomedical manufacturing,

Little did you know, but a single hamster has been a force of innovation and massive biomedical production.Scientists devote entire careers to so-called CHO cells from this Chinese hamster’s ovary. Dodi and Conor meet a couple of them to figure out why this hamster rules the biopharma world. Transcript Keywords: cells, protein, hamster, CHO, patient, dna molecules.

The list of people needing kidney transplants is tragically long, and donor lists are desperately short.Conor and Dodi find scientists who are coming up with alternative solutions to this problem. Some enable transplantation of less-than-perfect organs, and others dream of 3D printing important organs. Transcript Keywords: organ, transplant, dialysis, kidney, transplantation, donors, patient, organ donation, surgeon, repairing, biomedical.