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Frankensteins Followers. The Mitochondira.
Walter Pfaller and Paul Jennings
Prefer to read it yourself : https://frankensteinsfollower.eu/
After few attempts to record new Podcasts episode resulting in unpublishable episodes (explaining why there is no Episode 9 & 10), Paul & Max were back in Amsterdam early july 2025 and took this opportunity to record a new Episode
Prefer to read it yourself : https://frankensteinsfollower.eu/
Paul is having a chat with Ivo discussing how Artificial Intelligence is changing science and the world in general !
Here we discuss microscopes, cells, castles and some potential creepy experiments. Thanks Walter for a fascinating insight into the cell.
First chapter here: https://www.moltox.chem.vu.nl/FF.html
Audio: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wan8d-12307db
Link to German interview here: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-f2aa3-1218506
Prefer to read it yourself : https://frankensteinsfollower.eu/
Although science can endeavour to do a great many things, unachievable thus far, these activities should be, but seldom are, tempered with the question, should we really do it? This is not necessarily implying a moral code to scientific activity, but at least suggests that we probably should consider the long-term consequences of certain scientific activities to human society and the environment. Indeed, scientists have struggled with the consequences of their discoveries, not least Nobel himself, who set up the Nobel prize as a reaction to being called “The father of death”, due to his discovery and financial success with dynamite. Here, we set out the basis for a series of articles entitled, Frankenstein’s Followers, Maintenance and propagation of human cells outside the body.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0887233322000844
https://www.moltox.chem.vu.nl/FF.html
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