Talking Techniques

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Welcome to Talking Techniques! In this Podcast BioTechniques Digital Editor Tristan Free, interviews researchers at the forefront of their fields about the latest breakthroughs, controversies and conversations in the life sciences. From CRISPR to COVID-19, organoids to the microbiome, this podcast will explore the latest developments in the lab and interesting applications of techniques, while trying to determine how we can drive science forward in progressive and inventive ways.

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Episode Date
The BRAIN miniseries | Exploring the neuropathogenesis of HIV and mentoring the next generation of scientists
Mar 17, 2026
The BRAIN miniseries | Investigating the link between vascular health and neurodegeneration in underrepresented populations
Feb 19, 2026
The BRAIN miniseries | Meet the neuroengineer building brain-monitoring devices and thriving communities
Feb 13, 2026
Cytokine networks in autoimmune diseases: mechanisms, pathogenesis and therapeutic innovations
Jun 19, 2025
Skills-based teaching and microcredentialing in STEM
Aug 20, 2024
Antigen validation and T-cell receptor engineering for cancer immunotherapies
Jul 12, 2024
Cytokines: from therapeutics to diagnostics
Jul 10, 2024
Spatial analysis of the immune-cell-surface proteome at a single-cell resolution
Mar 22, 2024
Investigating the neurological pathways underlying vocal communication
Feb 20, 2024
Rare disease and pharmacogenomics
Jan 23, 2024
One man’s waste in another man’s treasure: using wastewater to monitor infectious diseases
Dec 18, 2023
Next-generation antibody therapeutics
Nov 22, 2023
Investigating resistant leukemia with single-cell technologies
Nov 03, 2023
CAR-T and CAR-NK cell therapies
Jul 27, 2023
Mitochondria, the immune system and cancer: discovering new insights with spatial technologies
Jun 16, 2023
Long-read sequencing, metagenomics and the microbiome
May 10, 2023
Open neuroscience and the meaning of FAIR
Feb 03, 2023
Welcome to the jungle: sequencing for conservation
Jan 25, 2023
Neuropixels: big data heaven or burying the lead in averages?
Jan 18, 2023
Microbiome profiling techniques: from immunology to agriculture
Sep 29, 2022
The gut–brain axis and addiction
Sep 28, 2022
3D cell cultures: the latest developments, applications and regulations in the field
Aug 26, 2022
rAAVs, host-cell contamination and ddPCR
Aug 03, 2022
HPV, epigenetics and cancer: sequencing for new insights and to correct healthcare inequality
Jul 28, 2022
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
Jul 20, 2022
Liquid biopsy and cfNAs: driving forward diagnostics and disease research
May 26, 2022
The evolution of recombinant antibodies
Apr 19, 2022
The epigenetic clock
Mar 25, 2022
Resolving spatial biology in neuroscience
Feb 28, 2022
Introducing STEM Tea
Feb 17, 2022
Cell proliferation in drug screening
Jan 25, 2022
Synthetic biology: from cancer to the climate crisis
Dec 21, 2021
Establishing an epigenetic lens to explore cancer and infectious diseases
Nov 12, 2021
Target enrichment for NGS: why, how and what's next?
Oct 26, 2021
Producing challenging proteins in the golden age of protein engineering
Oct 13, 2021
The evolution of PCR: From q to dd and beyond
Sep 21, 2021
Molecular therapeutics: how far have we come and what's on the horizon?
Aug 27, 2021
Adeno-associated viral therapies: harnessing the power of HPLC
Aug 17, 2021
Organoids: advancing drug discovery and cancer research
Aug 16, 2021
The ethics of whole-genome sequencing: from race and religion to science fiction
Jun 25, 2021
Revitalizing the western blot
Jun 21, 2021
From space to the streets: infectious disease sampling in extreme conditions and extraordinary circumstances
Jun 18, 2021
Revealing the regulome: using multiomic approaches to explore epigenetics and DNA expression
Jun 11, 2021
The oncolytic Trojan horse: Immune cells, the tumor microenvironment and the invasion of neurons
May 28, 2021
Whole-genome-sequencing: navigating the "Diagnostic Odyssey" in rare disease research
May 19, 2021
The wonders of wastewater surveillance for COVID-19
Apr 19, 2021
How PCR has prevailed during the COVID-19 pandemic
Mar 30, 2021
Reproducibility in microbiomics
Mar 25, 2021
How can we achieve gender equality in STEM?
Mar 05, 2021
COG-UK: sequencing SARS-CoV-2 and detecting the novel variant B.1.1.7
Feb 18, 2021
COVID-19 diagnostics: which test should you choose?
Jan 15, 2021
Andy Tay: Forbes, awards and championing diversity in STEM
Dec 10, 2020
How has neuroimaging continued and flourished during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Nov 06, 2020
The reproducibility crisis: where are we now and how can we progress?
Oct 20, 2020
CRISPR: developing an equitable technology amidst a global pandemic
Oct 12, 2020
Helicopter research and the challenges and misconceptions of research in Africa
Aug 24, 2020
Big data and COVID-19 part 2: Affecting policy and revealing risk
Aug 10, 2020
Big data and COVID-19 part 1: Facilitating and using collaborative, open data
Aug 10, 2020
DNA vaccines: combating cancer and COVID-19
Aug 10, 2020
The sustainable lab: energy efficiency, glass vs plastic and human behavior
Aug 10, 2020
UV LEDs for disinfection and potential protection from SARS-CoV-2
Aug 10, 2020
Rob Vries on organoids for drug discovery and the study of COVID-19
Aug 10, 2020
Donald Ingber: How COVID-19 is changing conservatism in life sciences
Aug 10, 2020
Donald Ingber on COVID-19, organ-on-a-chip technology and the Wyss Institute
Aug 07, 2020