Early bird registration for the 2026 Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology conference in Chicago (Sept 22-24) ends tomorrow!
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@UMN_BMBB , Congrats to the BMBB faculty award winners last night. The awards arrived on my doorstep during the banquet, but at least that gave time for one last photo-op. The glass blower must have been inspired by all of the talk of mirror life this year.
Scientists have birthed a ‘super cannibal’ that never grows up. Could it be key to combating Australia’s cane toad menace? theguardian.com/environment/…
I sat down for a break during my morning walk at #ICE2024Kyoto and this guy started croaking at me. How appropriate.
Great lineup of speakers for #ICBE25. Students and postdocs can still submit abstracts to be a part of it. aiche.org/sbe/conferences/in…
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We are excited to finally publish the unprecedented biosynthetic origins of enediyne natural products: iodinated polyynes! This transformative discovery is a huge milestone for these clinical antitumor antibiotics. @Kalkreuter @guichun98 @nchembio
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AmberBio is hiring: amber.bio/careers. I highly recommend looking into it if you want to work at a fast-moving startup with a creative and impactful technology. @themicrobeguy
@SynBioNaut and colleagues are taking the term 'toxic masculinity' literally.
Recombinant venom proteins in insect seminal fluid reduces female lifespan biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Looking for a postdoc? We are currently hiring plant synthetic biologist to work on an exciting and collaborative DoE project.
Great work by Tepper, Maselko, et al. Fish that break down methylmercury!
Very excited to share our preprint demonstrating that animals can be engineered to bioremediate methylmercury! Amazing work by @Dr__Tepper
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Thanks @themicrobeguy for a great seminar on engineered trans-splicing. Great our alumni crushing it @umncbs
that the UCA genome contains a message (i.e. the message evolved on Earth to create a species that could decipher it). You can fill in the details. Apologies if this story already exists and I am unintentionally ripping it off. (4/4)
(ii) come up with the optimal compiler algorithm for storing digital information in DNA so that a DNA-based message can be sent out into space. The climax at the end is they end up realizing ... (3/4)
(i) use ancestral reconstruction to determine the likely genome sequence of the Universal Common Ancestor of life on Earth, and ... (2/4)
@NikoMcCarty In an early issue you should pay homage to your namesake with a synbio rendition of Asimov's Last Question. Synopsis (spoiler alert): two independent research groups are trying to ... (1/4)
Great to see a UMN alum team up with an innovative and potentially transformative company. Good luck @pivotbio
Putting this on the summer reading list. Looks exciting Basem.
🚨 Today, we’re thrilled to share our study expanding the gene editing toolbox to enable virtually any kind of edit in gene transcripts at the order of thousands of bases. A thread 🧵👇(1/n)
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