MIT's free virtual synthetic biology course for this year is now open for applications! It has great stuff. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdoBI_sJXZSfHs7k19Xu-XUWnF4I2J0Gmvdhqd01e-Y5Ruorg/viewform
I have returned to the real world and want to know what people are getting excited about in synbio rn, papers, companies anything goes!
@gmo @cyrus @biovert @seablue
Just set up my liquid handling robot to run an experiment and now off to the gym! Nothing like getting the clankers to do your work for you (before the inevitable reversal and enslavement of humanity)
/synbio please give FCโs 38th user a warm welcome!! @thatmre is a synbio OG working on opening up access to bio. He runs biopunk lab in frontier tower in SF https://x.com/thatmre?s=21&t=1uRirdAj_h8nvCoLEKmKBw
We need more synbio/DeSci folks on FC. X is impossible to use without seeing extremist content and Bluesky is a crusty academic echo chamber. ๐๐
Arc Institute has been cooking latelyโฆ
Iโm just catching up on the preprint of the 1st functional AI generated viral genome
And they come out with a new DNA editing technology in Science
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675911v1
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz0276
Mushrooms will save the world!
I spent Tuesday and Wednesday this week at a conference focused on bringing sustainability to fashion and cosmetics. A significant portion of the companies are using mycelium to make leather and furniture. As a synthetic biologist it surprises me how little funding goes towards filamentous fungi that are capable such versatility.
S/o to @kelborhal78 for sending me down a generative art wormhole lol. In the process of trying to visualise what feeding ecoli different amounts of nutrients does to its metabolic network. Working on making it look pretty! The idea would be you can mint a nutrient and then play with the amounts and see how that changes internal reactions in ecoli/its growth rate and how much it stresses out