This week on 'Futureproof The Podcast', Jonathan McCrea talks to Dr Paul Jensen - Professor at the Center for Marine Biotechnology & Biomedicine at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego about turning marine slime into drugs.

Also joining the show to look at this weeks main news stories from the science world is Dr Shane Bergin from UCD and Dr. Ruth Freeman of Science Foundation Ireland.

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