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www.modifiedpod.com Teacher, (plant) scientist, vegetarian, discovering the exciting new trend of podcasting. 2005 here I come.
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Orlando 🏳️‍🌈✡️🇬🇧🇺🇸🇵🇸🇩🇪🧪👨🏻‍🔬🌿 @orlandodl.bsky.social · Mar 30
What's one thing you read/saw/experienced that changed how you think about genetically modified organisms? 🧪👨🏻‍🔬🌿
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Posting a picture of myself because pictures get more traction. And if you like this, then you'll love listening to my podcast - Modified - your guide to the science and history of GMOs

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November 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Wanna know about Chameleon vines, flower viruses, and how to GMO your way to a mango you can eat like an apple?

Check out the latest episode of Modified - www.modifiedpod.com/e/your-quest...

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Your Questions Answered | Modified
Ant plants, Chameleon plants, and skinny-peel mangoes. Let's dive into your questions and I'll do my best to answer them.    References Leaf Mimicry in a Climbing Plant Protects Against Herbivory - Gi...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Back again with my old friend the NYT election results tracker. One year on from what feels like a lifetime ago.
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Episode 5 out now
How Genes Keep Plants Alive
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How Genes Keep Plants Alive | Modified
How do plants defend themselves, fighting a war of attrition cell by cell? And how did a scientist in Minnesota in the 1950s reshape how we understand plant immune systems and the genetics at their he...
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November 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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How do a few strings of DNA make a plant? EPISODE 4 of Modified gets into the weeds.
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How Genes Make Plants | Modified
What are these little bundles of DNA we call genes and how does a bunch of genes work together to make a whole plant? In this episode we’ll take a journey through plant genetics and see why scientists...
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October 18, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Im doing some talks this Fall in Seattle. Cocktails and fun science. What's not to like. Only $10.

Our Modified World: Meet the GMOs in Your Life Tickets | The Lab at Ada's | Seattle, WA | November 19, 2025. Doors at 7pm, Presentation at 7:30pm | Stranger Tickets share.google/1QYDlDwUtJV7...
Our Modified World: Meet the GMOs in Your Life Tickets | The Lab at Ada's | Seattle, WA | November 19, 2025. Doors at 7pm, Presentation at 7:30pm | Stranger Tickets
Botany and Biology talks are back at The Lab! In a 19th-century castle kitchen, a German scientist was playing with human pus - using his chemistry skills to purify a mysterious new substance from ...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Grading lab reports from a lab you thought was a mess and that all you'd done was confuse all the students, then seeing that they did in fact get it and were doing great work. What a rush.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Another Nobel prize win for Seattle. Congratulations to Mary Brunkow (and Shimon Sakaguchi and Fred Ramsell).
October 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Episode 3 released. The One with Mendel and his Peas
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The One with Mendel and his Peas | Modified
Around the same time as Miescher was tinkering with DNA in Tubingen castle, a middle aged friar-scientist Gregor Mendel was experimenting with inheritance of pea plants. He was the first to define a s...
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October 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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And just as I wonder what middle age has in store for me, the universe enters with the answer... puzzles
Man with green hair looks proud, presenting a puzzle he just completed. It's a 1000 piece puzzle of a forest
September 27, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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Some positive news in the world is really welcome. And amazing to see the many decades of public investment into biotechnology worldwide bearing fruit with a gene therapy against this horrible disease.
royalsociety.org The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Sep 24
Huntington's disease has been successfully treated for the first time following positive results from a global clinical trial, on which Professor Sarah Tabrizi FRS of UCL's Huntington's Disease Centre was lead scientific advisor:

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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
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September 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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As a British American, despite having lived here 10 years there are still some things I can't wrap my little European brain around. And the American health insurance system is one of them.
September 25, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Bluesky? What are your questions about genetics or plant science? I will research and answer them in an upcoming episode.
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#botany
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September 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Episode 2: What genes are made of. www.podbean.com/eas/pb-3ivci...
What genes are made of
Genes can be a metaphor for our sense of self. But they are also real, physical, things made up of DNA parts, locked inside the cells of every living organism. In this episode we explore the materiali...
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September 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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www.glofish.com anyone ever owned a Glofish? How was it? My glowing firefly petunia died young - that was a forgetting to water her incident. Not a GMO problem
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Home | GloFish®
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September 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Love science? Check out the first episode of my soon-to-be hit new science podcast www.modifiedpod.com/e/introducin...

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Introducing Modified | Modified
The roots of today’s genetically modified world stretch back two centuries, to a castle kitchen in Southern Germany. This episode will set the stage for our whole podcast introducing key themes and fo...
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September 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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So apparently I totally neglected to remember that hashtags exist. So here we go. My names Orlando and I'm bringing you everything you wanted (and didn't know you wanted) to know about GMO crops in my podcast.

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September 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Try to contain your excitement somehow. The first full episode of Modified (aka my GMO podcast) is gonna drop this weekend
September 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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France you MF you've done it again. Chocolate pastry from crappy station shop better than the fanciest offering at the most overpriced Seattle bakery.
August 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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Introducing Modified - www.podbean.com/pw/pbblog-mx...
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August 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Anyone know if there are any GMO biofortified bananas actually out there getting grown at scale for consumption?
#gmo#biotechnology#foodscience
ajstein.bsky.social Alexander J. Stein @ajstein.bsky.social · Jul 16
#GMO bananas with elevated levels of pro-vitamin A have been developed to address #vitaminA deficiency in #Uganda. The biofortified #bananas can deliver meaningful #nutrition benefits even with customary prolonged cooking: doi.org/10.1080/2164... #vitaminAdeficiency #VAD #plantbreeding
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July 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I don't agree the British horror of AC is borne of cruelty. But I totally agree that the effect is cruel. And it does boggle my mind how blind folks are to the death toll.
July 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I've been reading a lot of Sci Fi books that feature galactic empires that offer an ideal lifestyle in exchange for a loss of autonomy and identity. Was this all kicked off by Iain M Banks' Culture novels?
July 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I uploaded the picture on the left and asked my fave AI tool to show me what I'd look like with ice blue hair. And well, I guess I wasn't clear enough in my prompt
July 6, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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As much as it seems fun to have an LLM design a website for me, I think Im going to retreat back to the nostalgic embrace of wordpress
July 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM