Hi science twitter (X?) 👋 we’re looking for a good method of differentiating btwn T-DNA integrated into plant cells vs. T-DNA in contaminating Agro cells when genotyping after floral dip. Anyone have a reliable method? Or a creative idea? 🙏 RT

This is a super cool animation to give everyone an idea how small some of these things we talk about every day really are.

A synthetic cell-free 36-enzyme reaction system for vitamin B12 production nature.com/articles/s4146…

Happy #InternationalCoffeeDay! Do you love coffee? Did you know that its health effects are influenced by how you make it? Want to know why I gave up French Press? The two chemicals to the left (by Life Science Studios - Scientific Illustration) are the most potent "bad" LDL cholesterol-inducing in our diets...👇1.

New at the Speculative Technologies blog: Why it's a mistake to extrapolate lessons from developing health technology for broader technology development.

Great way to take your technical idea into the world and get plugged into a third-way career direction in between academia and industry

I have failed...but I couldn't be happier. A small thread on recent experiments 🧬🔀🧵 1/n

The application deadline for admission to the Fall 2024 cohort of the PhD program in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is December 1, 2023 (in two weeks!). Instructions on how to apply are below are at this link: engineering.wisc.edu/blog/how-to-ap…

With a bit of synthetic biology and classical genetics, I transformed the unremarkable Arabidopsis flower into a beautiful pink rose 🌹🧬 with Stefano Bencivenga. (A thread 🧵)

What Speculative Technologies was up to in 2023:

Reflection that my enjoyment of cloning and DNA assembly is an adult manifestation of model railroading as a kid. Fun to make a layout for my children this year. #holidaytraditions

Great postdoc opportunity in plant natural products! The Lichman lab is doing exciting work. From personal experience I can say a postdoc abroad in UK is worthwhile :)

Well, that's it. I've peaked in life having been cited in XKCD *and* making it into the alt text. Going to retire to nerd heaven now. xkcd.com/2886/

We're hiring! Wanna join us and work on plant natural products? - PhD student: jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=1611… - Postdoc: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige… See examples of our work: - science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… - nature.com/articles/s4147… Deadline on 17 March 📅 #PhD #postdoc #biochemistry

We're hiring! We're taking another big leap in using synthetic biology to engineer materials - this time for sustainable food and textiles. In the next few weeks, we've up to 4 postdoc positions opening up. I'd love to hear from anyone interested in joining us this year. Pls RT🔁

Small joys of a new lab…the NEB order arrived today :)

#SynBYSS seminar with Prof Pablo Nikel Pablo Iván Nikel @pabnik.bsky.social, the chief editor of Current Opin. Biotechnology Elsevier at Technical Univ. of Denmark & Prof. Quentin Dudley Quentin Dudley at Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison UW–Madison The seminar video 👇 youtu.be/3fOQV2OpbIw?si…