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Episode 46: From side project to startup

Publishing date: 2017-10-31 Published on: Podtail summary: This episode Science: Disrupt chatted to Bethan Wolfenden, the co-founder of Bento Bioworks, a biotech startup that has created a ‘laptop size laboratory’. This kit allows the user to perform simple DNA analysis and dramatically reduces the cost of the components you’d need to analyse samples, thus lowering the barrier to entry for molecular biology.

Episode 44: Leading the automation revolution

Publishing date: 2017-10-10 Published on: Podtail summary: In this episode Science: Disrupt chatted to Kristin Ellis, the Scientific Development Lead at OpenTrons, about all things science. OpenTrons is a company that builds affordable open-source lab robots, that remove the need to perform tedious manual pipetting tasks, to free up valuable time for researchers.