Mixtures of engineered bacteria were able to: - Identify if a number is prime - Check if a letter in a string is a vowel - Determine the max number of pieces of a pie obtained from n straight cuts. Answers are printed by expressing fluorescent proteins in different patterns.

This is what Ebola viruses look like inside of infected cells. They look like tubes because the viral capsid is formed from proteins that directly bind to the linear, viral genome. "Until recently, it was impossible to reveal protein structures directly inside of virus-infected

Some plant cells package up messenger RNAs, wrap them in lipid bubbles & deliver them to invading fungal pathogens. The pathogen translates the plant mRNAs into proteins that harm the pathogen. In other words, plants use "information warfare," via mRNAs, to quell invaders.

Article: quantamagazine.org/cells-across-t… Paper: cell.com/cell-host-micr…

Today we're launching our third biopharma product line, AAV Edge, to empower gene therapy developers. A big part of why Asimov exists is to enable biotechnologies with outsized societal benefit – and AAV gene therapies are a prime example. /1

"A simple, nontoxic, biocompatible way to control the brightness of GFP-like fluorescent proteins via modest magnetic fields (~10 mT)." "This method works at room-temperature and body-temperature, in vitro, in E. coli and in cultured mammalian cells."

Honored and grateful for this recognition and support of our frugal inventions.

It took us about 9 months of exploration to build agents that can do superhuman scientific literature summary and Q&A. Michael Skarlinski wrote up what failed and what was essential in an engineering blog post: futurehouse.org/research-annou…

NCSU is highly underrated in biotech. I visited their plant science building. It has 10,000 sqft of greenhouse space on the roof, with 20 ft ceilings. It's large enough to grow gene-edited poplar and eucalyptus trees indoors. And it's connected to a BSL-3 insect pathogen lab.

I wrote this in a bit of a rush after Niko asked me to share how I find ideas to write. Re read it now and it checks out 😀

Almost all effective medicines were made or discovered in the last 100 years, including all antibiotics & antivirals. Just 100 years ago, infections (pneumonia & TB especially) were the leading causes of death. From "The Demond Under the Microscope," by Thomas Hager. Recommend.

This essay is about one of today's most important — but least understood — technologies. A few companies may be close to figuring out how to convert human skin or blood cells into eggs or sperm, drastically improving fertility. Metacelsus explains how it all works.