Today, a look back on the SWRI technology, breakthroughs, and innovations that got us talking in 2021,

from developing a COVID therapy to recycling plastic for fuel and exploring Jupiter,

the insightful and inspiring conversations of 2021 next on this episode of Technology Today.

We live with technology, science, engineering, and the results of innovative research every day.

Now, let's understand it better.

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are available at podcast.swri.org. Hello and welcome to technology today. I'm Lisa Benia.

It's been an enlightening year on the podcast, so many highlights, including learning about

reology.

A field of science you may not have heard of, but likely use every day.

We discussed a technique to harvest water from the air, machine learning tools to identify chemicals,

NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, and much more. We heard from experts at the top of their fields.

Now, let's revisit our most

intriguing listen and learn moments of 2021. We're kicking off our year in review with SWRI scientist

Jonathan Bowman on developing a drug therapy to treat COVID-19. Back in January on episode 27, before Delta, before Omicron, we discussed

virus mutations and their impact on research. So just to recap, though, what you said.

Generally, when viruses mutate, they become less dangerous.

So that's, you know, the thought is coronavirus, the COVID-19 will follow this same pathway.

Yeah, and that's what makes them more, I mean, so the mutation, the virus doesn't think or do anything other than replicate.

I mean, it's barely alive because it can't replicate by itself.

But, yeah, exactly.

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