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On this week's episode of How We Fix This: Super Scary Super Plants 🧬🌱 What if you could solve problems through nature itself? Lionel Mora and Neoplants are trying exactly that, using something called synthetic biology. They’re hacking the DNA of plants to make them do new things. Scary and cool in equal measure. How We Fix This, a podcast by Norrsken and Spotify, is available now. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Listen here! https://lnkd.in/grJGT4_Y

Cathy Xiao Chen

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Interesting episode! I can see these GE houseplants being super popular in countries like China where people literally buy cans of compressed air to avoid breathing polluted ambient air in major cities. There's likely to be interest for this on a large scale from cities themselves. One of the challenges of GE plants is the spread of disease when these plants become so mainstream (one variety of banana has been cultivated in so many countries that a single disease can threaten the entire industry) which means a huge vulnerability and lack of resilience from what is basically a global monoculture. It would be interesting to hear more about how effective these houseplants are and how many plants would be needed to clean the air in an average sized home, and efficacy in comparison to non GE varieties.

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Lionel Mora

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