Advertised to help with anything from wrinkles to arthritic pain, collagen is the protein of the moment, but do collagen supplements actually do anything? In this weeks episode, Ash investigates collagen, and whether you should save or spend your money.  In our SNPit, Rosie talks about how the future of data could be in bacteria.

Episode Sources:

• What is collagen?
• Do collagen supplements really help your muscles grow and skin glow?
• Eating Collagen Is Becoming a Health Fad, And We Can Only Sit Back And Sigh
• NTU scientists discover fish scale-derived collagen effective for healing wounds
• Why does skin wrinkle with age? What is the best way to slow or prevent this process?
• Collagen-Based Biomaterials for Wound Healing
• How we can store digital data in DNA | Dina Zielinski
• Robust direct digital-to-biological data storage in living cells
• Scientists ‘program’ living bacteria to store data

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AhDah Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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