18 min
#1315 - Mining Rare Earths with Biology IndieBio SF - Killer of the Week
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- Entrepreneurship
This week we talk to MetalX Biocycles founders, Drs. Jesica Urbina and Ivan Paulino Lima, two NASA trained scientists who have been working on mining technologies that are safe enough to do in space... They bring those technologies here to earth. Rare earth, that is. They won Killer of the Week this week for a critical experiment that takes them to near completion on their proof of concept: being able to separate rare earth elements, not with toxic chemicals, but with biological reagents that are safe enough for your kitchen.
Learn more about MetalX Biocycles at https://indiebio.co/company/metalx-biocycle/
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This week we talk to MetalX Biocycles founders, Drs. Jesica Urbina and Ivan Paulino Lima, two NASA trained scientists who have been working on mining technologies that are safe enough to do in space... They bring those technologies here to earth. Rare earth, that is. They won Killer of the Week this week for a critical experiment that takes them to near completion on their proof of concept: being able to separate rare earth elements, not with toxic chemicals, but with biological reagents that are safe enough for your kitchen.
Learn more about MetalX Biocycles at https://indiebio.co/company/metalx-biocycle/
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/indiebio-sf/message
18 min