A beautiful article in The Scientist just came out about our work, capturing my favorite part of the project: "Finally, the noisy gene expression data collected from bacterial populations made sense, though it came as a surprise to the team." the-scientist.com/rapidly-dividi… Kamal Nahas

Generative AI can craft impressively eloquent text, but is it ready to mass produce lay summaries of research articles? Though it may be on the right track, there are still some drawbacks to watch out for. New from me in Nature Index nature.com/articles/d4158…

ISSUE 03 is here! It's an honor to launch with this essay by Alex Telford about the peculiar people who made laboratory mice so popular. The other essays in this issue are going to be amazing, too. You can preview all of them on our website: press.asimov.com/articles/edito…

The tumour microenvironment from a bird's eye view - Kamal Nahas's perspective in The Scientist on our recently published paper in Cancer Discovery. Grateful to have been part of this study and an inspiring team. the-scientist.com/a-bird-s-eye-v…

Understanding the crosstalk between immune cells and tumors could improve the success of cancer therapies. Now, scientists have categorized the spatial architecture of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment, Kamal Nahas reports. bit.ly/3VaLnvg

A few months ago, we released a list of articles we'd like to publish at Asimov Press. We got ~300 pitches from writers, and this was one of them. This essay is a deep dive into the many ways we might tinker with life to make it grow faster. Let us know what you think!

When Niko McCarty 🧫 gave his talk at Manifest, people asked how we could design with biology in a way that more closely resembles computer programming. One answer? Faster iteration speeds! In today's piece, Kamal Nahas explains how cell-division times constrain the pace of

Bacteria evolve to divide at record speed. E coli even takes less time to double up than to copy its DNA! Yet natural constraints set a hard limit on the speed of cell division. For Asimov Press, I had so much fun delving into how biologists could circumvent these bottlenecks.

How to Engineer Cells to Grow Faster. Yesterday Asimov Press published an essay about efforts to make microbes divide more quickly; ideally in a few minutes. (Human cells take many hours.) But the essay was long (~5,000 words). Here is a summary. 🧵

Will athletes ever stop breaking records? livescience.com/health/exercis…

🧬 An international team of researchers used correlative light X-ray tomography to study the roles of nine genes in virus assembly in herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) on the B24 beamline. Read more below. ⬇ diamond.ac.uk/Science/Resear…

Like viruses, cutting-edge microscopy and cryo-imaging? Of course you do! ❄️🔬🦠😎 Read about a thing we did at diamond.ac.uk/Science/Resear… (much kudos to the lead author Kamal Nahas and the whole team at Beamline B24 - Diamond Light Source 💯🙏)

Thank you for covering our study.🥰 The Scientist Kamal Nahas

Just over a week left to apply to lead an exciting new cutting-edge pathogen cryo-microscopy facility here in Cambridge University! Apply now for fun science in a supportive and intellectually stimulating environment 👇👇👇 jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47348/