Christina Agapakis: «Biologie ist das Wichtigste in unserem Leben.» Migros Magazin: Wie funktioniert [Ihre Arbeit]? Christina Agapakis: Wir behandeln dafür die DNA wie einen Code, den man programmieren kann. Jedes Lebewesen besitzt DNA. Sie ist sozusagen die Festplatt... Sustainability Technology Mar 20, 2023
Baubotanik: Von urbanen Wäldern und Baumhäusern Ferdinand Ludwig revolutioniert die Architekturwelt mit seinen hybriden Bauwerken, die aus lebenden Bäumen bestehen. Als Professor für Grüne Technologien und Landschaftsarchitektur an der Technischen ... Housing Sustainability Technology Feb 14, 2023
Video: The Synthetic Kingdom Credits: Cath Elliot Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg is certain: the synthetic kingdom is part of our new nature. "How can we distinguish between natural and unnatural when synthetic biology creates life fro... Technology Feb 3, 2023
DNA data storage instead of server banks: a path to CO2 neutrality? In our connected world, we are constantly surrounded by data. We generate data, use it, and store it on an ever-increasing scale. This comes at a price: data storage could soon account for 20% of glob... Digitisation Sustainability Technology Jan 31, 2023
Will this become the new agriculture? Conventional agriculture is increasingly criticised. Too much farming land, too much water consumption and too harmful pesticides. Three Israeli start-ups from the food tech scene want to take a compl... Food Sustainability Technology Jan 19, 2023
Timeline: We Are at The Beginning of The Age of Biology The future economic system will be increasingly based on biology. Scientific advances promise unprecedented opportunities to increase food production, cure diseases, generate energy, purify water and ... Business models Sustainability Technology Jan 6, 2023
What if we could talk to animals? The goals are ambitious. The non-profit Earth Species Project (ESP) wants to develop software that helps understand languages throughout the animal kingdom, regardless of species, from worms to whales... Digitisation Sustainability Technology Jan 6, 2023
How bio fabrication helps save the environment The planet's raw materials are becoming scarcer, entire animal and plant species are dying. A rethinking is inevitable. But how? The bioeconomy could play an important role. In a video, Carole Collet,... Technology Jan 5, 2023
Karin Frick on the New Age of Biophilia We are observing a turning point: from the technological to the biotechnological age. In a video, Karin Frick, Principal Researcher at the GDI, explains why. Biology is becoming the new leading techno... Sustainability Technology Dec 5, 2022
Warum auf das Zeitalter der Technologie das Zeitalter der Biologie folgt Die vergangenen Jahrzehnte waren geprägt von einem immer rasanteren technologischen Wandel. Vom ersten Computer über das Smartphone bis hin zu Quantencomputer und Künstlicher Intelligenz. Es schienen ... Society Sustainability Technology Nov 25, 2022
Is Solar Punk Our Future? Solar punks could be described as the radically optimistic version of the climate youth. They envision a future in which people have overcome the great ecological and social crises of our time and cre... Sustainability Technology Nov 25, 2022
Multicoloured turds and feet bacteria: how synthetic biology is making us think differently It was at a genetic engineering competition more than ten years ago that Christina Agapakis met the British artist and designer Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. In the Cambridge researcher’s hands: a suitcas... Self-Optimisation Technology Nov 10, 2022