The Man Who Re-Invented DNA: Steve Benner on Hachimoji DNA
Evolution 2.0 · May 21, 2019 · 55:52
Evolution 2.0 · May 21, 2019 · 55:52
Listen in the Podli app 🎧
Follow your favourite podcasts, listen offline and in the car with CarPlay and Android Auto, and always pick up where you left off. Free to try.
Iconoclast, polymath, renegade and world-class chemist, Steve Benner engineered a new breed of DNA with 8 nucleotide options instead of four. This exponentially increases its data capacity and it’s called Hachimoji DNA.
What are the implications of this? Steve sounds off about the conflict between research and advocacy, and the great power of shattering paradigms and admitting what we don’t know.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
