Deeply researched
interviews from the
frontier of biotech.

What bio/acc is.

bio/acc — short for bio-accelerationism — is a podcast about the people, technologies, and ideas pushing biology forward faster than anyone expected. Each episode goes deep on a single frontier: RNA medicine, germline editing, longevity, antimicrobial resistance, synthetic biology, biosecurity, the economics of rare disease, and the ethics that will decide who benefits.

No press-kit interviews. Every conversation is researched for weeks before it's recorded.

The host.

Shriya Bhat is a Harvard undergraduate (Class of 2027) and an undergraduate researcher at the Church Lab — George Church's synthetic biology group at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute — where she works on next-generation RNA delivery vectors.

She's president of the Harvard Undergraduate Bioethics Communication Initiative and founder of the Harvard Undergraduate Microbiology Society. Before college she was a two-time ISEF winner in microbiology, a Regeneron Science Talent Search scholar, and a Coca-Cola Scholar; at Harvard she's a Goldwater Scholar, Herchel Smith Undergraduate Fellow, and Yun Family Research Fellow.

She started bio/acc to bring the field's most interesting thinkers into long-form conversation — scientists who usually only talk to each other, founders making the weirdest bets in biology, and the bioethicists fighting over what any of it should mean.

Produced by Rishab Jain · Published weekly · Harvard BCI, Cambridge, MA