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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

I first encountered Von Baer’s thought experiment in Richard Fisher’s book, The Long View. At any given moment, thousands of messenger RNAs are being translated into proteins by ribosomes, which are protein-making machines that are, themselves, made from a mixture of proteins and RNA. These numbers suggest that E.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I felt like a scientist for the first time, and I began to grasp the “numbers of biology” (many calculations in this essay come from that course and another textbook, Cell Biology by the Numbers.) Without mathematics, I learned, biology is naked; we can only comprehend it at arm's length. A typical E.

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APRIL 30, 2023

Read Stem cells were induced to form insulin-secreting pancreas cells and then transplanted into diabetic mice, where they successfully restored glucose levels. Nature Cell Biology. A new paper engineers a communication network between cells using DNA instead. Synthetic Biology. Cell Systems.

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APRIL 30, 2023

Read Stem cells were induced to form insulin-secreting pancreas cells and then transplanted into diabetic mice, where they successfully restored glucose levels. Nature Cell Biology. A new paper engineers a communication network between cells using DNA instead. Synthetic Biology. Cell Systems.

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APRIL 16, 2023

Read RIP-PEN-seq identifies a class of kink-turn RNAs as splicing regulators. Nature Cell Biology. Read *Open-endedness in synthetic biology: a route to continual innovation for biological design. Read An RNA-based system to study hepatitis B virus replication and evaluate antivirals. Nature Biotechnology.

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AUGUST 10, 2023

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2009). Link The second decade of synthetic biology: 2010–2020 , by Meng F. & Link Synthetic biology in mammalian cells: next generation research tools and therapeutics , by Lienert F. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2014). . & Weiss R.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Scientists are already building a model that can, for example, look at which RNA molecules are expressed in a cell at t=0 and predict how those molecules will change at t=1. Even more fundamentally, a virtual cell is a way to encapsulate the current extent of our biological knowledge. Even the humble E.

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