GenePlumber
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Synthetic Biology #EngBio for Scale-Up of Cell & Gene Therapy, Cultivated Meat https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/9847-darren-nesbeth
Synthetic Biology PhD studentship opportunity! Join my @uclengineering.bsky.social group to engineer the biology of a novel yeast for microbial palm oil production at scale - in collaboration with Clean Food Group Ltd. Open to UK residents only, starts October 2026 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
We are very excited to share the full programme for the London Open Science & Scholarship Festival 2026 and announce that bookings are officially open! ✨ Find all the details on the Open@UCL blog 👉 buff.ly/S7yECkO
Staring up at the aurora shimmering above. So beautiful.
If you need a last minute Christmas present, consider haunted shoe.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 8mo agoMystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
A new Nipah virus vaccine (HeV-sG-V) has cleared Phase 1, showing no serious safety issues and promising immune responses in 40 adult volunteers—an early but important step for global health security. Learn more: historyofvaccines.org/blog/phase-o...
Season’s Greetings from UCL🎄 UCL will be closed from 5:30pm on Tuesday 22 Dec 2025 to 9:00am on Monday 5 Jan 2026. Students can access support services during this time. 🔗 More details: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/students/support-and-wellbeing-services/about-us/closure-periods-2025-support-and-services
Reaching for the Sun A group of #Cedar #Trees in the little #Forest adjacent to the community where I live in #RidgefieldWA #PNW #WeekYForYearPast #Photography
A revolutionary gene therapy called base editing, developed by @uclchildhealth.bsky.social's Prof Waseem Qasim & his team, is helping patients including Alyssa Tapley, 16, fight a previously incurable blood cancer @uclpophealthsci.bsky.social @greatormondst.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/de...
World-first base-edited gene therapy helps patients fight previously incurable blood cancer
A groundbreaking new treatment using genome-edited immune cells, developed by scientists at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), has shown promising results in helping children and adults fight a rare and aggressive form of blood cancer.
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Is a conjugative plasmid 'alive'? If you think so, apply for this PhD and design life Use LLMs to design a conjugative plasmid that spreads through bacteria as an AI-designed genetic Trojan horse to suppress AMR genes
GenePlumber@geneplumber.bsky.social · 9mo ago🧬🤖 NEW PhD opportunity in my group: Using AI genome design tools to halt antimicrobial resistance spread! Combining LLMs with synthetic biology to tackle one of medicine's biggest challenges! #SynBio #AMR #AI www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical... Project application: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
This could well be the most important story on MNB this year. Did you know that South Korean gods of molecular biology have made the first TRUE hypoallergenic cat? Take my damn money! medicalnewsbulletin.com/hypoallergen... 🧪 VetMed #MolBiol #immunosky 🧬
Meet the only truly hypoallergenic cats in the world | Medical News Bulletin
Love cats but suffer from allergies? Learn how Korean scientists created the first allergen-free cat with MNB's Dr Cliff Dominy
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Chrck out @ucl.ac.uk Doctoral Centre in fighting Antimicrobial Resistance for PhD studentship opportunities www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
Preventing Infections
The prevention of infections theme of the CDT will focus on the development and testing of technologies that eliminate or reduce the presence of pathogens on surfaces, in air and in water.
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🚨 #UCL is now offering 50 fully funded PhD studentships through the EPSRC Landscape Award 2026/27 — apply by 5 Jan 2026: wp.me/p23f03-hyp #UELA #PhDScholarship #FullyFunded #PhDOpportunities #STEMScholarships #StudyInTheUK #InternationalStudents #ResearchFunding
🧬🤖 NEW PhD opportunity in my group: Using AI genome design tools to halt antimicrobial resistance spread! Combining LLMs with synthetic biology to tackle one of medicine's biggest challenges! #SynBio #AMR #AI www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical... Project application: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical...
🔬 Funded PhD 'Engineering self-regulating CAR-T cells' #SynBio #EngBio #iGEM2025 Work across mammalian synthetic biology & mathematical modelling. ⏰ Apply by 1pm UK, 5 Jan 2026 Project details: ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2026-27-proj... Project application portal: www.ucl.ac.uk/epsrc-doctor...
A day in the life of UCL MRes Synthetic Biology student, Quratul Akyuni www.linkedin.com/posts/ucl-en... #EngBio #SynBio
Yuni (Quratul Akyuni) (MRes in Synthetic Biology, UCL Biochemical Engineering) shares a typical day in her life as a UCL postgrad over the summer! | UCL Engineering
Yuni (Quratul Akyuni) (MRes in Synthetic Biology, UCL Biochemical Engineering) shares a typical day in her life as a UCL postgrad over the summer! 🌞 🥼 🧪 #LoveUCL #Studentlife #LondonStudent #UniTo...
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Will religious communities accept the lab-grown meat of de-extincted animals? Or AI-designed meat? New paper from my group, lead by the excellent Farhaneen Mazlan, considers these questions & much more #CellAg #SynBio #CultivatedMeat #EngBio #Bioprocess authors.elsevier.com/a/1l1uG3I9F4...
For the first keynote, we happily welcome Howy Jacobs, emeritus professor of #MolecularBiology at #Tampere University in Finland 🇫🇮. He gave an inspiring and thoughtful talk regarding the future 🔮 of #science 🔬 and its role in #society, specifically aimed at young researchers!
AI is helping scientists decode previously inscrutable proteins #Science #Biology #MolecularBiology #ArtificialIntelligence #ProteinResearch
AI is helping scientists decode previously inscrutable proteins
A new set of artificial intelligence models could make protein sequencing even more powerful for better understanding cell biology and diseases.
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The Sorrells Lab is hiring a recent college graduate interested in neurobiology of mosquitoes! The position is ideal for someone interested in gaining skills for graduate school. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/164849
Labeling your axes and then explaining them slowly is perhaps the biggest bang for the buck you can get for making your slides more understandable.
“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus
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“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus
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NIH-supported research saves lives: here are two "poster" human beings to prove it. Emily Whitehead: cured of her leukemia by CAR-T developed at Penn. Victoria Gray: major symptoms of her sickle cell disease resolved following CRISPR gene editing - path paved at Boston Childrens, UW, UC Berkeley.
🧬 Loved contributing to the latest @asianometry.bsky.social video on Chinese Hamster Ovary cells - the heroes of biopharmaceutical manufacturing. As always Asianometry does a great job of conveying technology development from industry to academia and back again www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xB1...
The Chinese Hamster Revolutionized Medicine
YouTube video by Asianometry
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