Yo!

Technology.

What is it all about?

The mind-boggling thing is if you enter that paradigm and you use pluripotent stem cells

as a starting point, then because they are so proliferative, because they have this infinite

potential of expansion, in theory all it requires is one single cell to literally feed the world.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your weekly dispatch from behind the scenes and inside

the minds of the top people in tech.

I'm your host, Danny Ford's and the West Coast correspondent for the Sunday Times.

Thank you very so very much for tuning in.

I hope you all are fabulous.

We have a fun one for you.

But you got to strap on your big brain hat because we are diving into the mind-boggling world of synthetic biology. What is synthetic biology,

you ask? I can hear you saying it now. Basically, it's the idea that we can engineer cells.

It's the same way we engineer a computer or a smartphone to do the things we want them to do.

That is obviously a wild simplification. But this idea, this technology has very, very, very big implications for, you know, the planet, the human race,

and of course, our friend, the cow.

Now here to explain what I'm going on about is Dr. Mark Cotter.

He is a neurosurgeon.

He leads a lab, a research lab at the University of Cambridge's Stem Cell Institute. And he is the co-founder of not one, but two companies in this

world. And the first is called Meatable, as in Meat, Abel, as in Stuff You you eat and they are a lab grown meat startup they're

developing i think initially pork lab grown pork so you know pork without the pig and then the

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