I think the reason automating science is hard is that protocols often have 20+ steps; but each individual step will fail or require modification in 5% or 10% of cases. So the probability you get all the way through without having to modify in some way is basically 0.

E.g. in…

Exploring the bounds of human-AI co-creation… for science!! 🤯📊🦠

Spreadsheets are the lifeblood of many biology labs, but extracting insights from messy data is a huge challenge. We wanted to see if AI could help us reliably pull data from any arbitrary spreadsheet. 1/n

Such a great thread! I don’t know why this feels so mind blowing but it does…

Lol! Who knew I was following all these marketing tips by accident... Jessica = phage 😅

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Truly excited to see our latest article, in which we were surprised how phages that target conjugative plasmids are both so common and diverse, published!

A real tour de force from Natalia Quinones-Olvera and Siân Owen

nature.com/articles/s4146…

Super excited that our work was featured in microLife. Here, we explored the implementation of a rational cocktail design to target Salmonella. Our cocktail features: 1) Phages targeting multiple receptors, 2) Phages with distinct genomes, and 3) Resistance layered phages.

Incredibly useful!!! Immediately applicable; ie. I will use it today.

We’ve rapidly translated repurposing hits from a yeast screen to first-in-human N-of-1 studies 8 times.

Acceleration coming soon 💊⏩

This is big 👀 Sphinx Bio just launched a graphing tool similar to Graphpad Prism that is free and on the cloud

Finally! It's Prism that you don't have to pirate... that's also cloud-based so you don't lose track of 'final' versions... with the user interface of Benchling.

And it's free for academics!🙏

If you have feedback, let Nicholas Larus-Stone know!

👀👀👀 omg this is truly wild

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Agree, great to see this framing! I’ve wondered what to call it. Evolutionary clinical trial? Responsive therapy? Iterative therapeutics? Love it.

HelixNano (mRNA/human-immune interface) & Phage Australia (+other phage therapy approaches) are pushing this in infectious disease.