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To anyone looking for a PhD in computational immunology, check this project out! Andreas leads an incredible group and is an amazing supervisor!! ⭐️. @andimscience .

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Super excited to release this short movie about our group, the Stauss Lab at UCL's Institute of Immunity and Transplantation🧪🔬 . Our research aims to engineer T cells against cancers and autoimmune diseases . Huge thanks to Charlie Yuille and his team at CHIK for the film!.

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If you're interested in getting in touch, supporting, or investing in our brilliant Activator companies, reach out!. as always Nucleate events always leave me so proud of the people I get to work with- massive congrats to the whole team for an excellent Summit @NucleateHQ.

This closes months of a VC fellowship where 5 of us have interviewed and diligenced the top of the 162 biotech companies participating in the @NucleateHQ Activator. @kulesatony and @jbpin90 were incredible mentors in this process!.

We also announced the $1.4M investments as SAFEs made in 7 Activator startups, in partnership with @blueyard and @pillar_vc.The teams span platforms to target novel cell-specific barcodes, small molecules for movement disorders, and RNA sequencing for agricultural crops 🧬🌾🧠.

Had an incredible time at the Nucleate 2024 Summit in Santa Cruz (CA)🌞🌲 @NucleateHQ. Learnt so much from incredible keynotes including Rick Klausner from @NCI @Altos_Labs (and many more), @tkalil2050 , Alexander Titus at @DeptOfDefense and @ilangur from @ARIA_research

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". they attack and defend, they store energy and catalyze its transfer, they store information and convey messages, and sometimes they themselves are messages!".

. one last snippet I loved is him marvelling at the diversity of function of biological macromolecules:. "They insulate, they fill out, they fetch and carry, they prevent the Organism as a Whole from falling apart or from dissolving in water, they prop up, they protect. ".

. He also has tons of great thoughts about the limits of applying concepts from thermodynamics and information theory to biology, our flaws in thinking about evolution and the need for strong hypotheses as a motive and guide of all scientific experiments. .

He suggests that scientists value.- explanatory value.- clarifying power.- originality. "But purity, as such, nowhere. "How neat!" one scientist might say of another's work - or "how ingenious!" - or "how very illuminating! " but never, in my hearing anyway, how pure!" . .

Purity is also not the criteria by which scientists judge "good" science. "If we study the criteria that underlie a scientist's own valuation of science, we shall certainly not find purity among them". .

"Pure Sciences are best not because they lack practical application" but because they are not acquired by error-prone empirical methods. pure ≠ useless. "Useful Arts are "less noble" than the Pure Sciences-but because of their fallibility, not because of their usefulness". .