# Ep202: Becky Pferdehirt on Reimagining Science for the AI Era

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Podcast: [The Long Run with Luke Timmerman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-long-run-with-luke-timmerman-1124799)
Published: 2026-06-02T13:53:43+00:00
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Duration seconds: 4092

## Resource

Becky Pferdehirt, CEO of Emeryville, CA-based Radial, the life sciences unit of Astera Institute, on reimagining biology to take advantage of advances in AI.

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