Precigenetics founder on defending against engineered bioweapons using human cells, not mice
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-09-30
Precigenetics founder Parmita joins the Down to Health podcast to explain how her lab builds defenses against engineered bioweapons without ever constructing one:
- Detection-first approach: countering biological threats purely through detection.
- Broken mouse models: why mice fail for diseases like Alzheimer's.
- Cell Cinema: tracks a living cell's drug response without destroying it.
- FDA deregulation: mandatory animal testing requirements were just removed.
- Liver toxicity alone accounts for a third of all drug failures.
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