Episode description

Dr. Rodrigo Ledesma Amaro from Imperial College London shares insight into metabolic engineering, a field of study that allows us to control and manipulate the behavours of living organisms. With metabolic engineering tools we can harness organisms to cure diseases, create biomaterials, biofuels, recycle rare materials and even create 'living materials', for example self-healing concrete. The field is incredibly exciting and there is much work being done to progress the field. We hope to have more researchers in this field in the future, be sure to follow to stay updated.