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Protein engineering, gene editing, synthetic chemistry/biology. PhD with @francesarnold at Caltech, currently postdoc with Jennifer Doudna at UC Berkeley.

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Caltech
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David Baltimore, President Emeritus and the Judge Shirley Hufstedler Professor of Biology, Emeritus at Caltech and a co-recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, passed away on September 6, 2025. He was 87 years old. https://t.co/2bMBqUCXBC
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@davidrliu
David R. Liu
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I discuss the urgent crisis from the loss of federal support of science in the US and recent clinical gene editing breakthroughs with @WalterIsaacson & @amanpour on @AmanpourCoPBS, airing on @PBS tonight at 11 pm ET, and on @cnni earlier today. Pls share! https://t.co/cyVZpAwJiq
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@francesarnold
Frances Arnold
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My ACS Priestley Medal address can be found here. Many stories not told in science talks...
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@cenmag
C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
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Meet @francesarnold, 2025 Priestley Medalist, at #ACSSpring2025. Stop by the ACS Booth Theater in the Expo Hall to hear about her contributions to #chemistry and pick up a signed copy of her C&EN feature issue. RSVP: https://t.co/Vr4HqfHGxi
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@zhangf
Feng Zhang
9 months
We are excited to report the discovery of TIGRs, a widely-occurring RNA-guided system found in bacteria and their viruses. TIGRs consist of a peculiar repeat region which is transcribed into RNA and processed into multiple guide RNAs to direct TIGR-associated proteins to their
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RNA-guided systems provide remarkable versatility, enabling diverse biological functions. Through iterative structural and sequence homology-based mining starting with a guide RNA-interaction domain...
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@arcinstitute
Arc Institute
9 months
Announcing Evo 2: The largest publicly available, AI model for biology to date, capable of understanding and designing genetic code across all three domains of life. https://t.co/1Zt6gQ74SA
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@NatureBiotech
Nature Biotechnology
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Single-molecule live-cell RNA imaging with CRISPR–Csm https://t.co/Z02AIVurLl
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@deepseek_ai
DeepSeek
10 months
🚀 DeepSeek-R1 is here! ⚡ Performance on par with OpenAI-o1 📖 Fully open-source model & technical report 🏆 MIT licensed: Distill & commercialize freely! 🌐 Website & API are live now! Try DeepThink at https://t.co/v1TFy7LHNy today! 🐋 1/n
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@NobelPrize
The Nobel Prize
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On 30 December chemistry laureate Fraser Stoddart sadly passed away at the age of 82. Stoddart's groundbreaking work in the field of supramolecular chemistry and nanotechnology has left an indelible mark on the scientific community and a forever lasting gift to society and
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@broadinstitute
Broad Institute
10 months
Congratulations to Broad core institute member @zhangf on receiving the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s most prestigious honor for American innovators! https://t.co/7PAtMpK7hH
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@NUChemistry
Northwestern Chemistry
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With profound sadness, we announce the passing of Sir Fraser Stoddart, Nobel Laureate and cherished member of @NorthwesternU. His groundbreaking contributions transformed the field of #chemistry and inspired countless scientists worldwide. ➡️ https://t.co/S7e0nwfruD
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@NatureBiotech
Nature Biotechnology
1 year
Lung and liver editing by lipid nanoparticle delivery of a stable CRISPR–Cas9 ribonucleoprotein https://t.co/D0B2efppfG
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@kaichen_1990
Kai Chen
1 year
Thrilled to share our latest work on lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery of a stable CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoprotein (RNP) for in vivo genome editing, now published @NatureBiotech! 🧬 https://t.co/UIZ5vszKto In this paper, we first engineered robust, efficient, and stable
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@GoogleDeepMind
Google DeepMind
1 year
We’re presenting AlphaProteo: an AI system for designing novel proteins that bind more successfully to target molecules. 🧬 It could help scientists better understand how biological systems function, save time in research, advance drug design and more. 🧵 https://t.co/lx35RvplFr
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@maxewilkinson
Max Wilkinson
1 year
My favourite discovery ever has just come online. Can I please tell you about some seriously wacky molecular biology? The story starts with a reverse transcriptase that SOMEHOW defends bacteria from viruses. (👇 I recommend sound ON for the video 🎹) 1/
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@francesarnold
Frances Arnold
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Now this is wild: An #enzyme can use NO (and other nitrogen cycle intermediates) for C-H amination! #directedevolution. Lovely mechanistic work by @Anuvab_tweet led to this discovery.
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Anuvab Das
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I am excited to share our latest discovery which is out now in @J_A_C_S! This study uncovers how engineered hemoproteins can leverage biological nitrogen cycle intermediates for enzymatic C–H amination, opening new paths towards sustainable synthesis. https://t.co/H3jzx6c49h
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@francesarnold
Frances Arnold
1 year
What an honor to be chosen for the Priestley Medal. #Enzymes are the best chemists, of course, but the Priestley medalists are no slouches...and include many of my colleagues @CaltechCCE. Thank you!
@ACSpressroom
ACS Pressroom
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Congrats to #NobelLaureate @francesarnold, recipient of the 2025 Priestley Medal, the highest honor awarded by ACS which recognizes an individual for distinguished service to #chemistry. https://t.co/SLvGveotfR #ChemTwitter #Awards #NobelPrize
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@CaltechCCE
Caltech Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
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Congratulations to Professor Frances Arnold (@francesarnold) on receiving the 2025 Priestley Medal! 🎉 The ACS is honoring Arnold, "for her pioneering contributions to the development of directed evolution as a method for chemical and biological design." https://t.co/DiVd74xDFU
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Bestowing the chemical engineer with its highest honor, the American Chemical Society recognized Arnold's years of work developing and applying directed evolution to nature's catalysts.
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@pdhsu
Patrick Hsu
1 year
What if we could universally recombine, insert, delete, or invert any two pieces of DNA? In back-to-back @Nature papers, we report the discovery of bridge RNAs and 3 atomic structures of the first natural RNA-guided recombinase - a new mechanism for programmable genome design
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