Biotechnology

The New Zealand data science programme, Taiao, aims to help researchers make sense of environmental data so they can make useful predictions to guide good decisions. Claire Concannon meets the team at… Audio

Biotechnologist David Leung finds ways to make plants solve environmental issues. Audio

We usually accept old age and ill-health as inevitably intertwined, but in the future that may not be the case, according to a geneticist based at Harvard Medical School. Dr David Sinclair attempts to… Audio

In a world first a 3-D printer has been used to create an entire heart made with actual human biological material. While the current state of the primitive organ can be compared to the heart of an… Audio

Naturally occurring microbes living on plants can be used to boost the yield, nutrition and even taste of corn, soybeans, rice and tomatoes. This Way Up visits a biotech startup manipulating microbes… Audio

A US company has developed a pacemaker-like device to treat rheumatoid arthritis, as well as Crohn's disease, by hacking the nervous system with an electrical charge. Audio

New Zealand's inaugural Festival of Architecture kicks off around the country next week. Architect Joanna Aitken is presenting an exhibition called "How Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence can… Audio

A cure for cancer isn't that far away, reckons engineering professor Steve Henry. His local tech outfit has developed a way to change the appearance of cancer cells so that the immune system can… Audio

Kathryn Ryan talks to Raymond McCauley who was part of the team that developed Next Generation DNA sequencing - a technologically which has exponential decreased the cost of sequencing genes. Audio