This will go down in history as one of science and medical research's greatest achievements. Perhaps the most impressive. I put together a preliminary timeline of some key milestones to show how several years of work were compressed into months.

U.S HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSES MORE ACT TO DECRIMINALIZE 🇺🇸 CANNABIS 💥 will die on the Senate vine but historic nonetheless. Let the #SAFEAct / #GASenateRunoff speculation begin...

Eric Lander of Broad Institute named White House science adviser to president elect Joe Biden. A short thread w/ a few observations about Eric Lander who i have previously called "the single most influential and powerful scientist in America." 1/n washingtonpost.com/science/2021/0…

This team will help our administration confront some of the biggest crises and challenges of our time, from climate change and the impact of technology on society to pandemics, racial inequity, and the current historic economic downturn. buildbackbetter.gov/nominees-and-a…

Dr. Amanda Fleury took up sewing as a hobby during her undergraduate years, along with her biomedical engineering training, she was able to leverage her biomedical engineering skills to develop wearable technologies for meditation: uoft.me/6kR Holland Bloorview

One of the most talented engineers I've ever met. A well-deserved spotlight, Amanda Fleury.

Upwards and onwards #synbio

Cruelty-free insulin, sugar-cane face cream, airplanes made from spider silk, and other unique and sustainable innovations of the future: t.ted.com/OzYK5Cw

Delighted to be working with the amazing folks at Soaring Eagle, including Dr. Arie Belldegrun. And excited now to have the chance to add a wider set of investors to the @ginkgo team!! Can learn more about us here: ginkgobioworks.com/investors/

In latest win for the bio-economy, Geno raises #118M led by Novo Holdings #sustainability forbes.com/sites/amyfeldm… via @forbes @forbestech

Congrats to Geno !!! They deliver renewable chemicals and materials at huge scale !! Ginkgo Bioworks has been honored to have them as a partner over last few years and it’s awesome to see them breaking out now 🚀 just as people are demanding renewables in all their products🌱🌱🌱

Congratulations to Christophe and the entire Geno team! This is a sustainable materials superpower and an exemplar of #synbio at commercial scale.

After writing about the last 10 years of #synbio last year, myself and 2 Imperial Bioengineering students - Hia Ming and Olivia Gallup - chose to write about the next decade. Our ideas for 10 future challenges for #syntheicbiology are now published online. ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1049/en…

Awesome partnership between lululemon and Geno on plant-based nylon 🌱 !! Geno is the worlds best at bringing major renewable chemicals to scale and consumers are now demanding these products. @ginkgo is lucky to have Geno on our platform !! 🙌 businesswire.com/news/home/2021…

To meet the milestone we exceeded Cronos's productivity target for commercial viability in a large scale fermentation environment producing CBGA. This adds a 5th molecule to the list that is going to market with finished Ginkgo Bioworks strains. (3 in F&F, VCE and CBGA). MOAR PLZZZ🧵

Delighted to announce a multi-program deal with Givaudan! We love startups joining the platform but also appreciate the validation when the largest companies in an industry choose the Ginkgo Bioworks platform to launch new products and Grow with Ginkgo!!🌷🌱 biospace.com/article/releas…

Just when you couldn't fomo any harder for ferment here comes the news that this session will be hosted by your boy Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc the original developer superfan

Today in partnership with EMBL-EBI, we’re releasing predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science, which will expand the #AlphaFold database by over 200x - from nearly 1 million to 200+ million structures: dpmd.ai/AF-22-TW 1/