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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

My review of Kevin Davies’s @kevinadavies.bsky.social excellent new book Curved Air published in today’s edition of @thewallstreet.bsky.social

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Delighted to be speaking at the Ilkley Literature festival about On the Future of Species. I was happy to see that Kersten Hall and Ralf Dahl will also be talking about their new book The Dawn Fisherman. @ilkleylitfest.bsky.social #ILF2026 www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk/events/44-ad...

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’m delighted to be appearing at this year’s Cheltenham Book Festival #CheltLitFest (9-18 October 2026), which is England’s oldest book festival. The full program is out now. Tickets go on sale 03 September at 10am.

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Congrats to @brianhie.bsky.social and @samuelhking.bsky.social at the @arcinstitute.org on a remarkable publication in @science.org. Time will demonstrate the philosophical importance of this landmark paper.

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Reviewing Fed Up by Daniel Lieberman published by Knopf @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social for @wsj.com, and rather enjoying it!

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A thoughtful, nuanced, and analytical review of On the Future of Species in today’s edition of @wsj.com written by seasoned science reviewer @dshaywitz.bsky.social

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Nice review of On the Future of Species in the Sunday edition of the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ole @mm-ilsole24ore-bot.bsky.social

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Much looking forward to reviewing Philip Ball’s @philipcball.bsky.social new book on Niels Bohr

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

My Opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal @wsj.com reviewing Karen Torghele’s book on Albert Sabine published by the Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

My book ‘On the Future of Species’ was featured in today’s Financial Times @financialtimes.com ‘Best summer books of 2026’. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social #SyBio #Evolution #AI #AIxBio #GenBio

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Just started reading #Curved Air by @kevinadavies.bsky.social published by @harvardpress.bsky.social about the quest to cure sickle cell disease using gene editing #CRISPR #SickleCellDisease and which I am reviewing for @science.org

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Genyro’s @genyroinc.bsky.social new pre-print in which we generated 3 poly-A RNA Hantavirus candidates in 2 days has just been published in bioarchives.

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A new bioRxiv paper published today by @genyroinc.bsky.social shows one-pot, parallel DNA construction from oligo pools using #Sidewinder, enabling AI-driven biology at scale. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Today the high-payload HSV-based gene therapy company Replay, that I founded during the pandemic in 2020, was acquired by LEO Pharma for a $50M upfront payment, as well as milestones and tiered royalties.

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Reviewing ‘Albert Sabin: The life of the polio vaccine pioneer’ by Karen Torghele @yalepress.bsky.social for the @wsj.com

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

A review of my book #OnTheFutureOfSpecies on the conference of #AI and biology, was published in @science.org magazine today

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I am reviewing for the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social and greatly enjoying the new annotated version of Charles Darwin’s classic #TheDescentOfMan published by @yalepress.bsky.social

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Interview discussing my book On the Future of Species with @erictopol.bsky.social share.google/UEBEx9aq3C1y...

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

My recent letter ‘On the Computability of Biological Machines’ published in The Lancet

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Great to see the Spanish version of my book On the Future of Species

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Good to see that On The Future of Species has been named FT Book of the Week. Thanks to Clive Cookson, Senior Science Writer at the Financial Times, for his thoughtful review.

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

A nice review of On the Future of Species in today’s Nature magazine

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I’ve just learned that my forthcoming book ‘On The Future of Species’ (published by Bloomsbury in the UK on 12 February and the MIT Press in the U.S. on 14 April) has been awarded #1 Best Seller in Medical Genetics on Amazon in the UK.

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Nice to be in the New Scientist list of best new popular science books for 2026

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

The face of our long-extinct relative Denisovan Man

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

My forthcoming book ‘On the Future of Species’ has just been sent to the printers. It will be published by Bloomsbury in the UK on 12 February 2026, by the MIT Press in the U.S. on 17 March 2026, and thereafter in China, Australia, Canada, Holland, India, and beyond.

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Unassigned RNA (uRNA) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Daphnia water fleas with embryos (left) and eggs (right)

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

My review of #Crick by @matthewcobb.bsky.social has been published online by @science.org. The book is lucid, beautifully crafted, and compelling. It will instantly become the definitive guide to this extraordinary individual’s life and work.

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I tremendously enjoyed Matthew Cobb’s definitive new biography of Crick. It was hard to put down and provides many new perspectives. My review of it will appear in Science later this week.

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Molecular machine learning in action in the Stanford-Arc generative antibody design collaboration.

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Latest kidney organoids www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

It was a great pleasure to attend The Agentic AI 3rd Innovation Summit in Boston, organized by nference. It is not every day that you can hear George Church being interviewed by a bot.

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I have just submitted my review of Matthew Cobb’s @matthewcobb.bsky.social excellent new biography of Francis Crick published by @profilebooks.bsky.social to Science magazine @science.org. I have to say that I greatly enjoyed it. It is set to become the definitive account of Crick’s work and life.

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

An engineered living materials based fabrication platform

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

De novo antibody design has arrived

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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I greatly enjoyed reading Robin Choudhary’s new book the ‘Beating Heart’, which I reviewed for The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com

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