Thread by @D_R_Goodwin

It's been another fascinating ~week in twitter biotech. Going back through some highlights...

1/ Of decades of listening to Tom Morello, and years of watching Bertozzi's lectures, I never would have guessed they were college shredmates. Clearly it was an amicable band breakup :) and a wonderful story of Creatives.

https://twitter.com/tmorello/status/1577694126610337795

2/ Crazy indeed. The amount of work and courage to accomplish something with such an unknown endpoint is really inspiring to me

https://twitter.com/caiyizhi/status/1577245632871661568

3/ Besides being a fascinating topic, I LOVE this TRiP system of showing the partner journal (@eLife ) public reviews in the arxiv: I'm interested in computational tools for discovering biotransformation, the reviews contextualize the work

https://twitter.com/biorxivpreprint/status/1577245924111392769

4/ docks docks, docks docks docks docks, docks docks docks docks! Tons of works now becoming public in this area all at once. I'm personally motivated of how we deploy these tools outside of drug discovery

https://twitter.com/KevinKaichuang/status/1577642761926299654

https://twitter.com/GabriCorso/status/1577543690255409152

5/ Gnarly story of a new PI. Status quo academia needs a massive overhaul, one of my theses is we just need more competing models universities have to improve their function.

https://twitter.com/kl13c/status/1577387285422936064?s=20

6/ New tool for non-canonical amino acid incorporation, which can further take us into the realm of proteins as programmable nanomachines

https://twitter.com/O_Borkowski/status/1577938546241032194?s=20&t=w1VCnF9W9DA3UjTgw5SrEA

7/ MOAR VIDEO GEN. Not bio but hey, will be soon

https://twitter.com/rachelmetz/status/1577723064145453056?s=20&t=w1VCnF9W9DA3UjTgw5SrEA

8/ OK FINE JUST ONE MOAR VIDEO GEN

https://twitter.com/ScottieFoxTTV/status/1578464646587375617?s=20&t=w1VCnF9W9DA3UjTgw5SrEA

9/ Jake's a great guy with tons of knowledge+perspective that he shares openly. This really inspires me to write+share more

https://twitter.com/FealaJake/status/1578082869838286848?s=20&t=w1VCnF9W9DA3UjTgw5SrEA

10/ Hey protein nanowires are cool let's try to get it working in an industrial workhorse chassis that could eat CO2

https://twitter.com/biorxivpreprint/status/1578592571575738368

11/ When we were working on Expansion Sequencing, I dreamed if we could use light to make NGS identifiers but couldn't figure how to start. Years later, out comes this monster of a paper and was like OK yeah that's a big hard challenge. Amazing work :)

https://twitter.com/jykishi/status/1579508555228798977

12/ Hey lets grow human brain organoids, graft them into rat cortices and see what happens.
(bc tone is lost online, I mean this respectfully: this does touch on important frontiers but you do have to allow the WUH factor at first)

https://twitter.com/Sergiu_P_Pasca/status/1580222573542924289

13/ beautiful work showing that we're stepping towards being able to generate arbitrary geometries of either synthetic (drugs) or organic (protein) parts

https://twitter.com/ilvailvail/status/1580149035926622208

14/ Studying genetic toolkits of an organism evolved for hyperaggression. I am curious to read interpretations of the increase in detoxification proteins

https://twitter.com/biorxivpreprint/status/1580522308254371842?s=20&t=w1VCnF9W9DA3UjTgw5SrEA

15/ Wow, I love this story of studying carbon fixation from a historical perspective. "Resurrecting ancient enzymes" is just a great science pitch, and in a high impact area (Rubisco engineering) that has struggled to make deployable progress

https://twitter.com/schulluc/status/1580620509372649472

16/OK, that's enough for this week. You can catch me in the front row of this keynote

https://twitter.com/vdlorenzo_CNB/status/1580520164130705409