Flash Forward13 Loka 2021

What If We Could Shrink Technology?

Today’s episode is all about making our technologies and medicines tiny. Like, super tiny.

Guests:

Ainissa Ramirez -- scientist, speaker, author of The Alchemy of Us
Eun Ji Chung -- biomedical engineer at the University of Southern California
Inge Hermann -- chemical engineer at ETH Zürich
Raj Bawa -- biotechnologist at Bawa Biotech
Richard Handy -- environmental toxicologist at University of Plymouth
Lisa Yaszek -- professor of science fiction studies at Georgia Tech

Voice Actors:

Harry Purvis -- Brett Tubbs
Parvis Tech -- Chelsey B. Coombs

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