patentscope2.wipo.int/search/en/WO... very interesting patent application filed by Moderna employing its mRNA technology platform to treat enzyme deficiency disease

Sang Yup Lee’s research is at another level.

New paper from the lab, where we sequenced the genome of Europe's most venomous snake, Western nose-horned viper (Vipera ammodytes ammodytes)! Read paper in Genome Biology and Evolution: academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...

My friend at iGEM just came across a startup that managed to make transgenic saffron in a lab plant that is 100% legit. He said it smelled like it and was convinced. How cool is that! www.linkedin.com/company/spic...

The recently published report on Biosecurity by Drew Endy et al in the context of contemporary & future Biotech & SynBio is worth every word. Check it out 👉🏻 www.hoover.org/research/bio...

Samarkand, stad op de zijderoute, heeft een millennia oude geschiedenis en schitterende architectuur

Be sure to read this review, part of our Industrial Perspective themed collection, by Stefano Donadio & co. from NAICONS Srl discussing the trends in metabolite discovery from Actinomycetes #secmet #natprod Find it in full below👇

EU economy falls behind global rivals due to ‘complacency’, warns Draghi on.ft.com/3IqnLjY

Overflow metabolism: Why cells waste nutrients—and why it’s not really waste go.nature.com/4n39Ijw

Great piece on @stanford-chemh.bsky.social Institute Scholar Paul Mischel @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social

Europe’s defence tech start-ups attract investment surge on.ft.com/3I9igGb

The billionaires funding aging reversal. When they were young they wanted to be rich. When they were rich, they wanted to be young. www.wsj.com/health/welln...

'Telomere erosion is a hallmark of aging, yet its downstream mechanisms and impact on organismal aging remain unclear. This study shows that cGAS-STING inflammatory signaling drives premature aging in response to telomere shortening in #zebrafish.' www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....

Starting tomorrow I’ll be sharing both the hot science & the even hotter takes from me & our incredible global community of colleagues. If you happen to be in Japan, registration is still open! See you there or see you here. www.elsevier.com/events/confe...

Thanks to all our colleagues and collaborators including @drcaragreen.bsky.social, Michelle Sonsalla, Chung-Yang Yeh, @baileyknopf.bsky.social, Teresa Liu, Shoshana Yakar @sadagurski.bsky.social and many more who made this work possible!

The Times of London just declared Somerville (my former home) to be "the most polyamous city" in America! www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Private tour of the Louvre is a special treat. They were vacuuming the Sphinx. You may not have seen a Sphinx being brushed, so I am sharing.

I cannot help being impressed that, at a time when the US did not exist & much of Europe was still recovering from the collapse of the Roman Empire, the science, technology & literature of the East were translated here—often back into Latin—and passed to our northern neighbors through this School 🤔

A new bench at JIC in memory of Helen Kieser. She moved to Norwich with David Hopwood in the 1960s and was instrumental in establishing the Streptomyces group and Molecular Microbiology @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Hard to overstate her importance to the #streptomyces field and community.

No biotech IPOs in US in 6 mos while Hong Kong stock market is "currently white hot" for Chinese companies. It's been a good year for the biotech industry in China. Story by @skirsner.bsky.social incl comments by @gilman.bsky.social @jmaraganore.bsky.social www.masslive.com/news/2025/08... #biosky

I would like to read a 1000-page case study explaining why we still use serum for cell culture in biotech - expensive - poorly defined - ground up cow fetuses are bad vibes - replacing it seems super doable And yet decades pass with no progress. Are we stupid?

Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has proposed a "NATO-Light" plan for Ukraine, Bloomberg reports. That means security guarantees without NATO membership, obligating allies to provide rapid military and economic support if conflict with Russia resumes. That’s probably better as the US can’t be counted on.

Great to see @nodwell.bsky.social on Bluesky. Excellent scientist and human. A Streptomyces aficionado!!

Considering how expensive radiocesium is, it is indeed a Great Value to sell it for the price of shrimp.

Biomanufacturing will truly become revolutionary if we could produce rocket fuel at low cost (like gasoline), via microbial fermentation & store the fuel in giant vats, pods, tubes/cylinders stationed in space-“a giant space based refueling facility “. (Image credits:Mondoworkspub.com)

Felt enterprising so I made a new personal website: wintermute.bio Working on cool biology? I can help you build it, scale it or sell it. Hire me for something and together we’ll be the world’s greatest biohackers

Japan’s pacifist self-image is under attack from realpolitik on.ft.com/45Pe5sb | opinion

This therapy builds on research from Carlos Belmonte, @neuroviana.bsky.social and colleagues, who showed how corneal cold receptors drive tear production and identified TRPM8 as a target. Once again showcasing the international nature of scientific progress.

Modi will have to show his political skills in this quagmire or quit and make way for a new Prime Minister!

This review analysed the scientific literature from 2013–2023 that reported novel specialised metabolites from the Actinomycete bacteria. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Maybe more telling about the situation in biotech: RA Capital is diversifying their portfolio away from biotech and into "Planetary Health" etc. Kudos for seeing the threat to biotech. But what should we do? Who is resisting this? No Patient Left Behind? @nplb.bsky.social www.racap.com/news

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out of CBER, you fascist-enabling, incompetent, contrarian twerp. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

"It's all very well pointing out the dangers of Trump, Farage, Le Pen and others. It would be negligent not to. But the negative case isn't enough. “I might not be beautiful but have you seen the ugly person next to me?” said no winner of a beauty contest ever." My column www.ft.com/content/c2bc...

Britain needs to unleash the spirit of entrepreneurship https://on.ft.com/3U1elxH | opinion

@edwardluce.bsky.social Justice finished reading Edward’s masterly portrayal of Brzezinski’s life in “Zbig”. What comes across is the preternatural ability of Brzezinski to predict how the future will unfold in geopolitics,especially the demise of the Soviet Union&the rise of the China, Russia axis

Our NEW Primer on Prediabetes by Mohan and colleagues is live today! Check it out here:

The poaching of engineers feels like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. This industry has invested hundreds of billions. What does it have to show for it? The products are underwhelming. The harms are humongous. 5 Big Tech companies compete for perhaps two viable slots. Train wreck coming.

Serious investment in this Dutch/UK company portalbiotech.bsky.social which aims to develope single-molecule protein sequencing: www.nif.fund/news/nato-in...

I spoke with Jade Hindmon, host of @kpbssandiego.bsky.social Midday Edition, about the consequences of the current administration’s cuts to science funding. Please share to help spread the word and raise awareness. www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpb...

A key aspect of my @erc.europa.eu Advanced project 'Community' was to predict biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) function entirely on how BGCs are controlled, without looking at predicted gene function or natural product. We show proof of concept for this idea in this paper in @plosbiology.org (1/2)

Huge thanks to the amazing team at @currentbiology.bsky.social for highlighting fungi in this special issue. Many excellent reviews and perspectives from so many mycological heroes. Lots of great material to use in teaching/outreach. 🍄

You’re walking down this hallway and the phone starts ringing you pick it up to hear a voice that sounds like your own “We don’t have to industrialize biology. We have to biologize industry.”

Reframe the paradigm so that the opportunity space opens up!

When "a photo is worth a thousand words" is an understatement

Just like Stanley Kubrick’s peerless movie satire “Dr. Strangelove”, there ought to be a cinematic satire on the MAGA chief called “Fuehrer TACO”.

... Sandra Wingaard Thrane & Nuria Canibe. Thanks to GUDP - Grønt Udviklings- & Demonstrationsprogram for the financial support to make this happen!

Industrial biotech can get capex investment ez all u have to do is invent a 30-liter benchtop bioreactor process that competes directly on price with the incumbent process

A BBC interview with Financial Times journalist Ed Luce on his new biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was National Security Advisor under president Jimmy Carter. www.bbc.com/worklife/art...