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Synthetic Biologist - Foundry Theorist - stay humble biodesigners

Cambridge, MA
Joined June 2014
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Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc
3 years
Stop glamorizing the hustle and start glamorizing the mussel
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I'm excited to announce that this thumbnail image comparing biopharma company outcomes to juicero has caused me to become the joker. I invite all my biotech colleagues to join me in becoming the joker.
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lada
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Tech has produced several trillion-dollar companies. Biotech has produced none. If I were completely impartial to what disease I treat or what modality I use, could any of the existing company-building strategies create a trillion-dollar outcome? This essay is a set of musings on
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Join millions who have switched to Grok.
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Evolution varies the number of teeth in mammals from 0 to more than 100, depending on diet, lifestyle, etc. If we ever set out to alter human genetics, how would we decide if our current number of teeth (which evolved under conditions very unlike how we live now) is optimal?
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In my experience people with good lab hands are often quite frustrating to collaborate with because so much of it is tacit knowledge and pre-verbal. If they can explain it and train someone else to do it, we stop calling it “good hands” and just call it “the protocol”.
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a question that has been on my mind for a while - are ‘good lab hands’ - the indescribable quality that some scientists have to be very good at experimentation - at the basis of key discoveries in biology? Like CRISPR and mRNA vaccines?.
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How it feels to open up a blank lab notebook
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RT @SofiasBio: omg everyone in nyc should attend, especially if you’re not working in biotech. this will be so good.
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Never going to win the franchise wars to become the sole surviving restaurant chain by 2032 at this rate
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Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc
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Editing human embryos for longevity FEELS bio/acc-coded. But in fact it is a bet that no other longevity interventions will be invented in the next 50-80 years that make your treatment obsolete. It is perhaps the most decellerationist bet you could possibly make in biotech today.
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Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc
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This year: complaining about poor quality AI-generated emails from prospective PhD students. Next year: All outreach has to happen on zoom because AI-generated emails are too hard to detect. 5 years: All outreach has to happen in person.
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"Overburdened with mitochondrial challenges" is a phrase any doctor or biologist immediately recognizes as bullshit. This is the equivalent of a mechanic telling you your car's air filter has "hydro-pneumatic transflux challenges".
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RFK JR: I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today. and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, inflammation—you can tell from their faces, movements, and lack of social connection
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Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc
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"He had a hand rolled cigarette behind his ear that he lit up right after he put on the lab coat and started skateboarding". - a one sentence short story I read today that gave me chills.
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Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc
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Back in the lab shooting a commercial for a favorite client and showing the raw charisma that has earned me the nickname dr. hollywood
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Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc
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RT @thisischristina: Returning to my roots
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"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin" - William Shakespeare
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RT @skanurowa: Hei #sybio #biotech #science people! There is a public consultation about EU Biotech Act. If you are involved in this indust….
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Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc
4 days
Starting in 10 minutes.
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ValleyDAO
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🚨 Proof of DeSci Tomorrow!. We’ll be hosting @SynBio1, synthetic biologist & educator!. Topics on the table:.🔬 Lab automation & DeSci.🌍 Climate science & adoption.😂 Science, memes & communication. $GROW $HEMPY
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I don't know what this storefront in Prague actually is (grocery store maybe?) but my mission in life is to convert it into a nightclub with an underground biohacking scene
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RT @thealbertanis: Later today I get to jam live with @SynBio1, an old friend who has taken synbio from academia to the internet and back a….
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Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc
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RT @baym: Shooting weeds with lasers. What’s not to love?.
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Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc
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Orange shark found in costa rica if sharks can be this color then anything can be any color all bets are off.
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Jake Wintermute 🧬/acc
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Join me tomorrow with the ValleyDAO team to talk about how we can get more people growing the green future.
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ValleyDAO
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🚨 Proof of DeSci Tomorrow!. We’ll be hosting @SynBio1, synthetic biologist & educator!. Topics on the table:.🔬 Lab automation & DeSci.🌍 Climate science & adoption.😂 Science, memes & communication. $GROW $HEMPY
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