Episode 4: Rennos Fragkoudis

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The Synthetic Biology Podcast

The University of Edinburgh

4 episodes

9 months ago

The UK Centre for Mammalian Synthetic Biology embraces a vibrant community of research groups from across the University of Edinburgh. From biological sciences and medicine to engineering and social & political sciences. Synthetic biology is being applied to gain insight into human and animal health and disease and to transform medicine and healthcare. In this podcast series, we chat to a number of our researchers and discuss how their work is addressing a diversity of scientific questions with wide ranging impacts for society and industry.

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Episode 4: Rennos Fragkoudis

The Synthetic Biology Podcast

10 minutes 54 seconds

4 years ago

Episode 4: Rennos Fragkoudis

In this episode, I talk to Dr Rennos Fragkoudis, Manager of the Edinburgh Genome Foundry - a research facility specialised in the assembly of DNA constructs. These are artificially constructed fragments of DNA that can be 'transplanted' into a target cell or tissue. These constructs contain a gene sequence of interest that can then be expressed in the host. Rennos explains how he, his team and some very impressive robots are involved in a diverse range of research projects from producing viral vectors for gene therapy to yeast based production of high value chemicals for healthcare products…