george church
@geochurch
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Professor @Harvard @MIT @PGorg @WyssInstitute tech dev: #CRISPR #NGS #BRAINi
Boston, MA
Joined April 2010
We’re excited to share a new multi-year collaboration with @TakedaPharma, building on the success of our first engagement. Under the agreement, Nabla will receive double-digit millions in upfront and research payments and is eligible for success-based payments exceeding $1
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Excited to announce mBER, our fully open AI tool for de novo design of epitope-specific antibodies. To validate, we ran the largest de novo antibody experiment to date: >1M designs tested against 145 targets, measuring >100M interactions. We found specific binders for nearly half
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We're stil writing the @ManifoldBio story, but @ElliotHershberg just dropped a fantastic piece capturing the journey so far on his blog Century of Biology.
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I have more twitter followers than George Church, Feng Zhang, David Liu.
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One year ago: 600 bp Today: 50,000 bp We are now accepting early access orders for synthetic DNA up to 50 kb — delivered in <4 weeks. Build without limits and innovate without compromise with longer DNA: https://t.co/rfZDJbxpEg
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Species-defining differences (governmental and scientific) include a mixture of physical & physiological measures, breeding/food/ecosystem preferences, and DNA. There is no magic number of changes in any of these categories. A single genetic change can cause speciation ... while
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We’re excited to announce that @Roche has exercised its option to license one of our next-generation AI-designed AAV vectors for neurological diseases! 🧬🚀 More on this key milestone for AI in gene therapy: https://t.co/rkzN6qhb0D
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I’m thrilled to announce that the application for the 2025 edition of our @medialab and global synthetic biology course, “How to Grow (Almost) Anything” is now open! Application link in thread 👇
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E11 Bio is excited to share a major step towards brain mapping at 100x lower cost, making whole-brain connectomics at human & mouse scale feasible (🧠→🔬→💻). Critical for curing brain disorders, building human-like AI systems, and even simulating human brains. 1/N 🧵
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