Category: Talks

What you need to know about CRISPR

Should we bring back the wooly mammoth? Or edit a human embryo? Or wipe out an entire species that we consider harmful? The genome-editing technology CRISPR has made extraordinary questions like these legitimate — but how does it work? Scientist and community lab advocate Ellen Jorgensen is on a mission to explain the myths and realities of CRISPR, hype-free, to the non-scientists among us.

Source: www.ted.com

How we’re harnessing nature’s hidden superpowers

What do you get when you combine the strongest materials from the plant world with the most elastic ones from the insect kingdom? Super-performing materials that might transform … everything. Nanobiotechnologist Oded Shoseyov walks us through examples of amazing materials found throughout nature, in everything from cat fleas to sequoia trees, and shows the creative ways his team is harnessing them in everything from sports shoes to medical implants.

Source: www.ted.com

(Not Quite) Live Report from CCS 2016 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Center for Collective Dynamics of Complex Systems (CoCo) Seminar Series
September 21, 2016
From the 2016 Conference on Complex Systems (CCS 2016)
Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Special guests: Prof. Carlos Gershenson (UNAM, Mexico) and Prof. Seth Bullock (U. Bristol, UK)

Source: vimeo.com