AI will not replace you. A person using AI will.

Today Einstein received a five-year, $14 million NIAID News grant to help lead a national effort to develop "plug-and-play" vaccines and antibody-based therapies against emerging viruses as part of the agency's new #pandemic preparedness network. More at bit.ly/4de11NK.

We’re very excited to be a part of this very important program.

I’m very happy to share our work on evolving capping T7. Directed evolution of an orthogonal transcription engine for programmable gene expression in eukaryotes biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We’re very excited to be teaming on this important work.

Just wanted to share the news that I’ve just started my own lab at the University of Arizona in beautiful Tucson. We’ll be studying protein function, divergence, and mutation effects across life using language models!

3-2-1 Blast Off!! EBRC is excited to announce the launch of our roadmap on #SpaceHealth. Take a moment to read what 100+ #engineeringbiology experts have to say about the future of #spacetravel. 🚀🧬✨ roadmap.ebrc.org Translational Research Institute for Space Health

Very cool nature.com/articles/s4146…

Great advice!!! “IF YOU WANT TO LOOK GOOD IN FRONT OF THOUSANDS, YOU HAVE TO OUTWORK THOUSANDS IN FRONT OF NOBODY. " - DAMIAN LILLARD

Our capping T7 manuscript is now published. Directed evolution of an orthogonal transcription engine for programmable gene expression in eukaryotes: iScience cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Hyperreactive B cells instruct their elimination by T cells to curb autoinflammation and lymphomagenesis Immunity cell.com/immunity/fullt…

New preprint claims that most existing DNA language models perform just as well with random weights, suggesting that pretraining does nothing (Mistral & DNABERT-2 look like exceptions). We need better DNA language models.

A circular RNA aptamer shows therapeutic efficacy in vivo in a psoriasis model go.nature.com/3UeBGf2 rdcu.be/ebBhp

Promoting responsible use of #AI development in outbreak R&D will be key for ensuring this emerging technology is harnessed for good. Find out how CEPI is working to ensure AI is used responsibly to help the world stay ahead of pandemic threats ➡️ bit.ly/3FwPrT1.

Texas Visit #2: Great check in with Jimmy Gollihar and his team Houston Methodist. Incredible innovation happening there and proud to help contribute to it with our APECx program ARPA-H. Also got to bring Blake along. Thank you Houston for the hospitality!

⏳The deadline is TODAY at 4 PM to submit ideas to DARPA’s RFI for advanced disease outbreak simulation technologies! The threat of disease outbreaks impacts both our warfighters and the nation as a whole. To address this, #DARPA has released a Request for Information seeking

Had a lot of fun learning diffusion and addressing key issues in protein diffusion with Giannis Daras Jeffrey Ouyang-Zhang TLDR: a few protein structure insights inspired us to design a new diffusion loss, training regime and dataset, resulting in significant performance improvements

Thank you to the U.S. FDA, Marty Makary MD, MPH, Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD, and colleagues for hosting a great workshop on reducing animal models in regulatory science! Was exciting to participate with many others from the FDA and NIH, and set the stage for the kick off of CATALYST soon ARPA-H!

We are looking to recruit a tenure track group leader in the field of Chemical/Synthetic Biology (in the broadest sense) to lead a research program within the Division of Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry ( jobs.ac.uk/job/DNW809/res… ) at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB)

Beautiful work! Image-based, pooled phenotyping reveals multidimensional, disease-specific variant effects biorxiv.org/content/10.110…