About this episode
Fiorenzo Omenetto is a professor of biomedical engineering at Tufts University and the director of Silklab. Fiorenzo's problem is this: How do you turn a material people have been using for thousands of years into useful, cutting edge tools that improve everything from vaccine delivery to food waste?
Get early, ad-free access to episodes of What's Your Problem? by subscribing to Pushkin+ on Apple Podcasts or Pushkin.fm. Pushkin+ subscribers can access ad-free episodes, full audiobooks, exclusive binges, and bonus content for all Pushkin shows.
Subscribe on Apple: apple.co/pushkin
Subscribe on Pushkin: pushkin.com/plus
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Get every episode summarized
Each time What's Your Problem? publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.
Email me new episodesFree for 3 shows. No card needed.
Hosts & guests
No transcript yet
This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.
More episodes
More from What's Your Problem?
Can a Robot Kill Fish Humanely?
What's Your Problem?
Using Satellites to Prevent Famines
What's Your Problem?
The Quantum Shift in Biomedical Discovery from Smart Talks with IBM
What's Your Problem?
Can We Slow Down Aging?
What's Your Problem?