How to pick a problem. Today in Cell. 1/53
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Moving office is a pain but finding you still have these old conference books is worth it. Who else was at SB4.0 in Hong Kong?

Genome-Wide Transcription Response of Staphylococcus epidermidis to Heat Shock and Medically Relevant Glucose Levels dlvr.it/T4GvlN

@drewendy.bsky.social called for sustained funding in fundamental engineering research. He highlighted the importance of supporting projects that may lack immediate commercial application. youtu.be/bGv2yngbpus?fe…

Check out the new EBRC In Translation episode with @drewendy.bsky.social! Drew talks with Andrew Hunt and Rana Said, MSc about progress in synthetic biology, and so much more. He also introduces us to our favorite new concepts: the labrary and Awestronomy. Enjoy!

ebrcintranslation.buzzsprout.com/1581817/143594…

$DNA Thanks @drewendy.bsky.social for the weekend listening! Please produce more content!! open.spotify.com/episode/0Qy7Oa…

Fortunate to have Renee D. Wegrzyn and @drewendy.bsky.social join us to kick off the first meeting of 2024 of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotech !! 🇺🇸🧬

Inspiriting for the commissioners to hear how great a biodesigned future could be and how USG could make it happen!

@drewendy.bsky.social Sri Kosuri Current the model is available: github.com/lingxusb/megaD…. Please let me know if you have any problems running the codes!

Important article today from Tara O'Toole and Sarah Sewell w/ In-Q-Tel.

'The nation that pioneers the bioengineering solutions of tomorrow will be safer, richer, and more powerful.'

They're right.

washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-amer…

A win for pharma supply chains: In an effort to mitigate drug shortages, today the The White House announced its plans to leverage the Defense Production Act to onshore manufacturing of KSMs and APIs for critical, essential medicines. Read more here: bit.ly/47M3CMc

Today The World Health Organization published two Disease Outbreak News items- on pneumonia in China and on #mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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WHO is supporting these outbreak investigations.

Priceless reaction! When a team wins iGEM Headquarters . This Indian team from iGEM IISER Thiruvananthapuram looks gorgeous adorning a global stage representing India . The future of India in Biotech! PMO India

#india #biotech #iGEM #bioeconomy #iGEM 2023 #startups #india

congrats to everyone who competed at the iGEM Headquarters grand jamboree! it’s been a great season and we had so much fun learning about everyone’s projects. see you all next year 😆😆😆

Ah, thems were the days, when you could actually see a decent fraction of the teams yourself.

This year I was overwhelmed after an hour.

Nice to have an opportunity to see what iGEM Headquarters has become.

LLMs will soon become a commodity, there are already dozens of them out there and dozens more are being trained

Grok, is the latest one trained on Twitter's data and took less than a few months to train.

Soon they will be considered part of the software stack just like

Remember how the biotech EO from late ‘22 included a mandate requiring screening all software at the compile stage in the name of computer security? Me neither…

I've tried to explain why Amazon's marketplace advertising business represents an abuse of market power, and the mechanisms by which tech platforms manipulate the attention of their users in order to extract money from their ecosystem of suppliers.
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📢 Faculty search! 📢 Stanford is looking to hire at the intersection of Bioengineering and Sustainability. Please spread the word and apply to join us!

He-Man for the win. Such an amazing CDO. Lots of great insights here (e.g., 'have you tried trying?')
antheia.bio/unleashing-joy…

Our Chief Dog Officer wrote a blog in honor of International Dog Day, but he missed posting it because he was hard at work on scaling our first product. Never a dull day at the Antheia’s HQ! antheia.bio/unleashing-joy…