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@001TMF

AI for programmable biologics & protein design | Building biological intelligence | Longevity & personalised therapies | GitHub: 001TMF | UoE

Bergabung Şubat 2026
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Tristan Farmer
Tristan Farmer@001TMF·
@ebetica Kinda want to try to see if our biological reasoning approach could boost the success rate.
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Zeming Lin
Zeming Lin@ebetica·
This protocol was validated in our paper with minibinders and scfvs against 5 hard therapeutically relevant targets. We validated this protocol with BLI, live cell immunofluorescence, functional assays, and cryoem structures. It's not about how many binders you can design, it's about whether they'll work in the lab.
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Zeming Lin
Zeming Lin@ebetica·
How to design your own PD-1 binder in 4 easy steps: 1. Download the tutorial notebook from the ESM team 2. Get a @modal API key to scale it up 3. Scaling it up, O($1000) will get you a 96 well plate of minibinders with >50% success rates on typical targets 4. Test it in the lab!
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Tristan Farmer
Tristan Farmer@001TMF·
All the people doing protein interaction predictions. With the release of openBind, why not train a model on that, then fine-tune it on PPI?
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Tristan Farmer
Tristan Farmer@001TMF·
Rebranding the term employee to agent. Now we are 100% agentic.
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Tristan Farmer
Tristan Farmer@001TMF·
@boazbaraktcs Bit pointless. First, no pledge to actually support nucleotide producers just passes on the burden. Second, this technology is so widely available that it likely slows the good actors more than it slows the bad ones.
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Boaz Barak
Boaz Barak@boazbaraktcs·
Proud to have co-signed this letter. Bio capabilities of AI systems, including foreign and open source ones, are fast advancing. We can't assume that bad actors will not have access to such capabilities and need to ensure information is not the only bottleneck.
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp

No one should be able to order a bioweapon through the mail. @IFP & @JoinFAI are proud to co-lead an open letter calling for mandatory DNA synthesis screening & recordkeeping. Signatories include: - Sam Altman, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenAI - Dario Amodei, CEO & Co-Founder, Anthropic - David Baker, Director, Institute for Protein Design; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient - Patrick Collison, CEO & Co-Founder, Stripe - Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator - Demis Hassabis, CEO, Google DeepMind; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient - Emily Leproust, CEO & Co-Founder, Twist Bioscience - Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School - Gerald W. Parker, former Special Assistant to the President for Biosecurity and Pandemic Response - Mustafa Suleyman, CEO, Microsoft AI - Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics, George Mason University - Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer, Meta; Founder, Scale AI - Christine E. Wormuth, President & CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative; 25th Secretary of the Army Read the letter and see the full list of signatories: screendna.org Many DNA synthesis companies voluntarily screen orders to mitigate biosecurity risks, but no law requires them to do so. Leaders in AI, biotech, life sciences, national security, and the nucleic acid synthesis industry agree that Congress should act to strengthen safeguards against biological threats. @deanwball put it well in the WSJ: “If you’re synthesizing the stuff that yields biological life and viruses, we’re asking you to screen to see whether it is dangerous in some way. That seems like a reasonable thing for society to insist upon.”

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Tancrede
Tancrede@Tancrededib·
if you're looking for a cofounder, present yourself in one sentence + space you want to work in everyone else, like the profiles that stand out i'll be looking to invest in the best ones
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Jake Adler
Jake Adler@jakeadler·
When people visit Pilgrim they are noticeably shocked by how simple it has been for us to obtain biological agents. This is a major step in the right direction
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp

No one should be able to order a bioweapon through the mail. @IFP & @JoinFAI are proud to co-lead an open letter calling for mandatory DNA synthesis screening & recordkeeping. Signatories include: - Sam Altman, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenAI - Dario Amodei, CEO & Co-Founder, Anthropic - David Baker, Director, Institute for Protein Design; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient - Patrick Collison, CEO & Co-Founder, Stripe - Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator - Demis Hassabis, CEO, Google DeepMind; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient - Emily Leproust, CEO & Co-Founder, Twist Bioscience - Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School - Gerald W. Parker, former Special Assistant to the President for Biosecurity and Pandemic Response - Mustafa Suleyman, CEO, Microsoft AI - Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics, George Mason University - Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer, Meta; Founder, Scale AI - Christine E. Wormuth, President & CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative; 25th Secretary of the Army Read the letter and see the full list of signatories: screendna.org Many DNA synthesis companies voluntarily screen orders to mitigate biosecurity risks, but no law requires them to do so. Leaders in AI, biotech, life sciences, national security, and the nucleic acid synthesis industry agree that Congress should act to strengthen safeguards against biological threats. @deanwball put it well in the WSJ: “If you’re synthesizing the stuff that yields biological life and viruses, we’re asking you to screen to see whether it is dangerous in some way. That seems like a reasonable thing for society to insist upon.”

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Tristan Farmer
Tristan Farmer@001TMF·
Guess now is the time to say we work in biodefense.
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Tristan Farmer
Tristan Farmer@001TMF·
@navyadotbio Bloating US nucleotide producers will not be the saving grace. These tools are already out in the open. Genies out.
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navya b.
navya b.@navyadotbio·
@001TMF pretty much, especially considering the first 2 are actively profiteering off conventional weapons deployment
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Tristan Farmer
Tristan Farmer@001TMF·
Right gang, we made these tools your problem now.
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Tristan Farmer
Tristan Farmer@001TMF·
@agupta We are approaching benchtop nucleotide printing. Don't see what impact this bill would have, except to pass the burden to nucleotide producers.
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Ankit Gupta
Ankit Gupta@agupta·
I mean this is great and all, but….how do you actually do this? Beyond some very well known cases, to what extent can we even take a strand of DNA and say “this is a threat”? I suppose the specific threat is someone makes a crispr guide and edits something that makes a thing more pathogenic? But…how would we know that? not to mention that this technology is so widely available it likely slows the good actors more than it slows the bad ones.
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp

No one should be able to order a bioweapon through the mail. @IFP & @JoinFAI are proud to co-lead an open letter calling for mandatory DNA synthesis screening & recordkeeping. Signatories include: - Sam Altman, CEO & Co-Founder, OpenAI - Dario Amodei, CEO & Co-Founder, Anthropic - David Baker, Director, Institute for Protein Design; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient - Patrick Collison, CEO & Co-Founder, Stripe - Paul Graham, Founder, Y Combinator - Demis Hassabis, CEO, Google DeepMind; 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient - Emily Leproust, CEO & Co-Founder, Twist Bioscience - Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School - Gerald W. Parker, former Special Assistant to the President for Biosecurity and Pandemic Response - Mustafa Suleyman, CEO, Microsoft AI - Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics, George Mason University - Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer, Meta; Founder, Scale AI - Christine E. Wormuth, President & CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative; 25th Secretary of the Army Read the letter and see the full list of signatories: screendna.org Many DNA synthesis companies voluntarily screen orders to mitigate biosecurity risks, but no law requires them to do so. Leaders in AI, biotech, life sciences, national security, and the nucleic acid synthesis industry agree that Congress should act to strengthen safeguards against biological threats. @deanwball put it well in the WSJ: “If you’re synthesizing the stuff that yields biological life and viruses, we’re asking you to screen to see whether it is dangerous in some way. That seems like a reasonable thing for society to insist upon.”

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Tristan Farmer
Tristan Farmer@001TMF·
The reaction is somewhat warranted. Wanted my plant to grow better. - Gave Claude a photo of it - Found its genome - Designed a protein to weaken DELLA repression Guess we'll find out if it will do anything. github.com/001TMF/blatant…
Tristan Farmer@001TMF

At this point, this biosecurity letter feels like pure theater a repeat of Mythos and Glasswing. create the issue, then pass the liability If it’s a real problem, more paperwork isn’t the solution.

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Lisa
Lisa@inferredbylisa·
By backing scientists I mean anyone working at the frontier of knowledge to develop new technology.
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Tristan Farmer
Tristan Farmer@001TMF·
@jacobkimmel Pushing biologics discovery towards compute changes a lot for the future.
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Tristan Farmer
Tristan Farmer@001TMF·
What would the perplexity of bio look like, and who is it?
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