Optical biosensors for neural circuits and methane-eating enzymes with Loren Looger

About this episode

Loren Looger discusses his work on optical biosensors and methane-eating enzymes in the context of climate challenges.

When Loren Looger walks into a room, he doesn't want recognition, he wants to make things that work. The creator of revolutionary, open-source tools that transformed how we visualize brain activity is increasingly turning his protein engineering expertise to formidable challenges in climate, including methane degradation. . Methane sits at the heart of our climate crisis as a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Yet nature has evolved only a few enzyme scapable of breakin...

People in this episode

Guest: Loren Looger

Topics covered

• optical biosensors
• neural circuits
• methane degradation
• protein engineering
• climate crisis

Keywords

• optical biosensors
• neural circuits
• methane
• protein engineering
• greenhouse gas

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Organizations: Homeworld Collective

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