I Attract Miracles

What if the materials inside tomorrow’s screens and sensors could be grown in cells?
Ivo Betke joins Claudio Flores of MIMOTYPE to explore fluorescent proteins: biological molecules that absorb and emit light. From searching for signs of life beyond Earth to developing new optical materials, Claudio’s journey connects fundamental questions about biology with the technologies we use every day.
We discuss how proteins are grown, extracted and purified, the challenges of making them stable outside living cells, and what it takes to turn a laboratory discovery into a useful material.
Then we look ahead to 2040: could proteins help us build new kinds of displays, sensors and medical devices that safely break down after use? A conversation about light, biology, and the distance between today’s research and tomorrow’s possibilities.
I Attract Miracles: Season 02, Episode 04
Grown, not Made.
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Creators and Guests

Host
Ivo Betke
Host of I Attract Miracles
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Producer
Nicolai Haas

What is I Attract Miracles?

I Attract Miracles — The Speculative Science Podcast
We sit down with the architects of the next decade: scientists, founders, and inventors building the technology that sounds impossible until it isn't. Each episode follows one breakthrough through three movements. The Origin, where curiosity turned a researcher into a founder. The Mechanism, where we make the science visceral. And The Dispatch, where the guest steps five to fifteen years into the future and describes, from the inside out, a day in the world their work is creating.
This is speculative non-fiction in the spirit of Verne and Gibson: nothing invented, only the present recombined into the plausible adjacent worlds it's already pointing toward. Technology arrives faster than we can imagine living inside it. We close that gap.
Hosted by Ivo Betke. Executive Producer Nicolai Haas.