Balancing The Future
Hosted by Chai Nussbaumer and Micah Schweizer and Micah · METTLER TOLEDO
5.0from 27 ratings
- 36
- Episodes
- 32
- Transcribed
- 27
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Balancing The Future
Science and technology play a key role in solving many of the world’s toughest problems. Balancing the Future introduces listeners to the people and innovations addressing these challenges. We explore wide-ranging creative solutions that are changing our world for the better. You will hear directly from people making an impact in science and technology. Like how cultivated foods could shake up both our diets and traditional agriculture, the ways AI could help us find a cure for Alzheimer's, and how tiny 3D ‘organoids’ are already changing the way we test new drugs. Each episode offers hopeful conversations with scientists, leaders, and communicators who are making a difference in their fields. Join us as we decode the mechanisms behind impactful developments and new ways of thinking. Subscribe or follow us to be sure you never miss an episode.
- Publisher
- METTLER TOLEDO
- Category
- science · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Sept 2024
- Latest episode
- 19 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
32 of 36 episodes have a transcript.
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Cell-Free Bioengineering: The New Chemical Manufacturing Frontier
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
We're Taking a Break!
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Plastic-Derived Cookies: From Pollution to Nutrition
Inside a recent episode
Cell-Free Bioengineering: The New Chemical Manufacturing Frontier
Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The biological approach to making many chemicals often avoids much of the toxicity that you see in chemical-based systems. We're not dealing with raw materials that can be hazardous. We can select for raw materials that are available to us in nature, which are often much safer and much easier to source. And then being in this bioreactor where we've got control over every input, every environmental feature, that allows us to have really strict control over what's produced, how quickly, and what we can recover. It's been incredible. We've been able to engineer systems now that make ingredients for nutraceutical supplements, ingredients that have wellness impact, and we can produce them very, very quickly. […]
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- Damien Perriman
- Lahiru Jayakody
- Sandhya Jayasekara
- Tapasvi Bhatt
- Carlos Diaz-Marin
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 4 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 23 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 25 / 100
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- Quality
- 31
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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Who hosts Balancing The Future?
Chai Nussbaumer and Micah Schweizer and Micah host the show. Published by METTLER TOLEDO.
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