Here at Savage Lab we are thrilled to present a review on rubisco. We focused on structure, mechanism, evolution and engineering attempts. We try, and fail, to conclusively answer the question "What exactly is holding this enzyme back?" 1/10 arxiv.org/abs/2207.10773

Watch this mother react the moment she sees her baby move This newborn baby boy was born at Sedgwick County Zoo via c section on November 15 and was put on oxygen, here is mum and baby reunited

Excited to share our preprint on cyanobacterial communities and their core microbiome, with Spencer Diamond as corresponding author and incredible help from Jackie Zorz, Keith Bouma-Gregson, Catalina Cruañas Pániker, The Banfield Lab. #microbiome #Genomics #WomenInSTEM biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint out! Babies are born to breastfeed. While 50% of lactating persons struggle to make enough milk, there are no FDA-approved drugs to enhance lactation. We engineered a long-acting prolactin, Prolactin-XL, to enhance milk production. bit.ly/prolactin-XL 1/14

Mafalda Dias & Jonathan Frazer lab is looking for someone who loves model building and is keen on studying disease from an evolutionary perspective. Experience in statistics, deep learning, or transcriptomics is desirable but not essential.

The 5050 program is giving me the tools to turn my research into a startup, everything from how to move fast to the secrets of fundraising to how to build a team around you. If you want to learn about deep tech startups, and build one, go apply! x.com/sethbannon/sta…

Really enjoyed this summary of recent AI progress and possible implications: youtu.be/xoVJKj8lcNQ?si… thanks Carlo amadei

So we are blowing past 1.5C, and expecting hundreds of millions of global south folks with forced migration and newly poverty in the coming years. #ipcc

What limits rubisco function? Is it the chemical mechanism? Evolution? In an updated pre-print Michael Prywes et. al explore this question by assaying >99% of single amino acid mutants in Form II rubisco (1/7)

Excited to share our new preprint on the Taxol pathway! We developed a strategy to systematically activate and identify gene sets in non-model organisms and used it to find 8 new genes in the Taxol pathway, allowing us to biosynthesize Taxol precursors de novo. Surprisingly, this

Check out our last pub. from Michael Fischbach lab! We discovered that skin commensal microbes induce systemic and local B cell responses upon colonization and took advantage of this knowledge to create topical vaccines using engineered skin microbes. Please read the thread for details.