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The Life Scientific: AP De Silva on Building Molecular Fluorescence Sensors for Healthcare

Series 922, episode 7

Photochemist AP De Silva talks to Jim Al-Khalili about his passion for engineering molecules and how his photochemical innovations have since crossed into computer science. They've been developed to perform molecular computations far inside the human body - where silicon microchips fear to tread. A new deeper understanding of life inside tissues and cells beckons

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Jim Al-Khalili