Ayan

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Just got back from Synbiobeta in San Jose It was great to hear directly from old and new players where present day synbio is at and where they see the future headed. I’ll be chiming in on my blog editlife.substack.com very soon also here is a lovely moment where I accidentally photobombed @bryanjohnson 😅

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I spent the past week in Deer Isle, Maine sequencing the DNA of the local flora and fauna @cyrus and I scraped algae off of rocks, sampled lichen draped over trees, and swabbed biofilms growing on fresh water pools trapped in the hollows of rocks

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I heard we’re posting fits on zora ?????????? https://zora.co/coin/base:0x9bf6644153780b55cfb6f059a389773a3a9ad063?referrer=0x11b0a658d2dec090a6d8345543cc890af3d5019f

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the only tragic thing about summer is that I can’t wear fur coats

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I haven't been sick in a while and I can't believe how debilitating it's been this week. Quite humbling to be forced to return to my own body. I'm now trying to imagine worlds where our technologies are as sophisticated as the virus that has hijacked my cells. This then made me think of this awesome paper on the "hidden virosphere" where researchers used an AI model to find a ton of novel viral RNA polymerases in environmental sequencing data AKA they found ~162,000 new viral species!! wild We have so much to learn about the invisible worlds around us https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)01085-7

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Propaganda I’m not falling for: Farcasthim

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/synbio is super underrated Dan’s post refers to an example of the 1st successful pig to human kidney transplant Some small caveats + key words: * xenotransplant = organ transplant from non-human animal This was a huge feat for xenotransplants, but this patient lived for 50 days and died from a potentially unrelated heart attack The only other cases of xenotransplant patients survived for max 2 months. We need more longitudinal studies of course, but this is still massive progress that scientists can genetically engineer another animal’s organ to be compatible in humans for any amount of time. More in this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00368-w

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Ayan reporting live from Bawston with the weather (🥲) *⚡️ is 1000% real & not animated

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Interesting results from my IG poll:

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For those curious about what sort of conference brings together biohacking billionaires, AI protein model builders, VCs, academics and astronauts, here is my piece covering my main takeaways from the SynBioBeta /synbio multiverse: https://open.substack.com/pub/editlife/p/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of?r=2sgxx6&utm_medium=ios

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How can something so beautiful die Who’s working on flower longevity Brb Engineering ‘Forever Flowers’ **Pls send all of your 💵 for early access 🙏🏽 🌷

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Back when biologists were experimenting based off of vibes Jacob von Uexküll measured the perceptive worlds of animals He found snails perceive 4 moments/second & humans 18/second I like to imagine that for snails we’re just teleporting around & to faster creatures we are the snails + I highly recommend reading his book that was published for scientists + the public: A foray into the worlds of animals and humans: with a theory of meaning https://xenopraxis.net/readings/uexkull_foray.pdf

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I met a group of awesome people at a party last night and we spent so much time in the corner together we created a group chat called “the corner” IRL connections>>>

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Crying at how unhinged the Boys Club email subjects are 😭

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The cost of sequencing your genome 📉 The cost of a flat white 📈

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Sometimes I feel like a plant navigating my own phototropism where I have to grow as tall as I can + bend/contort my body to try and reach the sun It can be a common feeling among people who have to fight to be in certain spaces s/o to my fellow plant people🌻 Also would highly recommend this read: Phototropism: Bending towards Enlightenment https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1456868/ Also I think dandelions are deeply misunderstood 🥲

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Do you notice something about this picture of the “Don’t Die” dinner hosted after SynBioBeta last week? Women have left the chat— Is the longevity space ignoring the biggest consumer group for health, wellness and anti-aging?! Not to mention the ladies are already living longer 👀 In the USA alone Women are paying roughly 15 BILLION more each year for healthcare, 18% more specifically in out of pocket spending/year (excluding pregnancy related expenses!!) We also can’t miss the approx. 600 billion dollar beauty industry that is becoming more and more about proprietary anti-aging R&D! @bryanjohnson we need to tawk

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Gene therapy is coming to a baby near you

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@usv has entered the /synbio chat! If you haven't been paying attention before, let this be your signal 🧬

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Who said you can’t wear /firefits at a biotech conference (also incredibly awkward to film these things in public fyi 😅 new respect unlocked for influencers)

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