Episode list

Humberto Maturana, beyond being a renowned biologist, has managed to influence world leaders from his approaches to the organization of living beings. In the first episode of the documentary series "Labstars", produced by "4 Change Media", we tell you the story of this Chilean philosopher.

María Teresa Ruiz was the first in many things, and not only in Chile. Since the discovery of "Kelu", a brown dwarf, Ruiz has opened up paths for thousands of women in science and astronomy. In addition, she was a fundamental piece in consolidating Chile as the most important window to study the universe.

Pablo Valenzuela is a world-class scientist: he created the vaccine against the hepatitis B virus, discovered the hepatitis C virus, which made blood transfusions safe, and is responsible for developing a process to produce human insulin from yeast; in addition, under his direction, scientists cloned and sequenced the AIDS virus.

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease are practically incurable degenerative diseases, but there is one scientist who has refused to believe that this is the case. Ramón Latorre has dedicated his life to studying the ionic channels of cell membranes, the microscopic place where the secret to understanding why these diseases occur could be locked in.

Climate change is a phenomenon of our times and much of its evidence was collected by a Chilean. The story of Gino Casassa, world-renowned glaciologist and collective Nobel Prize winner, is another of the main characters in our new documentary series Labstars.

That Chile and the world can enjoy species like the abalone is thanks to a Chilean marine biologist. Juan Carlos Castilla's unprecedented studies laid the foundations for what we know today as the "species ban", a discovery that was made by declaring a specific area of the ocean a marine reserve and waiting to see how the regeneration of that area would not only benefit it, but also produce a cascade effect. This discovery revolutionized marine conservationism as we know it.