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Jacob Kimmel

@jacobkimmel.bsky.social
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co-founder & president @newlimitbio.bsky.social | Prev PI @calico, PhD @ucsf | interested in aging, machine learning, genomics, & the technology production function jck.bio

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Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
the best history reads like fiction, the best fiction reads like history
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Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
biology is often plagued with irreducible latencies. accelerating progress then requires increasing bandwidth, parallelizing many experiments. prior generations optimized discoveries/hypothesis tested with elegant, serial iteration. ours will optimize discoveries/unit time.
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Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
we're entering a new phase @newlimitbio.bsky.social & beginning to progress our first medicines for aging & disease. now more than ever, we're confident that reprogramming biology will unlock more healthy years in each life. it's a privilege to build this future with generational partners.
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Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
health is both the most valuable commodity & a Jevons good. the more healthy years/$ you can buy, the more total health spending will *increase*. there's no upper bound on value for therapeutic & enhancement products that really work.
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Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
AI2's paper finder is one of the best improvements to my research workflow in years highly recommended:
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Introducing Ai2 Paper Finder | Ai2
Ai2 Paper Finder is an LLM-powered literature search system that mimics the iterative paper-finding process.
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Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
each year @newlimitbio.bsky.social, we share an update on our progress with the public this week, we revealed the early results from our programs in metabolism & immunology. we’re starting to see the first hints of reprogramming medicines on the horizon. watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=HR0-...
m.youtube.com
NewLimit Progress Update 2025
YouTube video by NewLimit
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Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
early winter @newlimitbio.bsky.social: - +3 TF sets with efficacy in animal disease models - +3 TF sets that restore youthful function in old T cells - 20X increase in humanized liver screening throughput - 2X better in silico reprogramming than the best baseline details: bit.ly/4iuBvqC
blog.newlimit.com
January // February 2025 Progress Update
Therapeutic beginnings
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Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
cognitive drills are substantially underrated in molecular biology & genomics half of creativity is having the ingredients for invention top of mind building a Borgesian mental library of enzymes & reactions pays dividends
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Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
2024 @newlimitbio.bsky.social: - 10X Engine throughput - Discovered TF sets that reprogram cell age & preserve type - Restored youthful function in a disease model with drug-like reprogramming we demonstrated that reprogramming medicines are possible 2025: we start to develop them bit.ly/4h7rrD3
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2024 Year in Review
Restoring youthful function
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Reposted by Jacob Kimmel
Anshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Congrats to Johannes Linder, David Kelley et al. on the journal publication of Borzoi - a long context sequence models of RNA-seq coverage profiles with many nice applications for transcriptional & post-transcriptional regulation & variant effect prediction. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/
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Predicting RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence as a unifying model of gene regulation - Nature Genetics
Borzoi adapts the Enformer sequence-to-expression model to directly predict RNA-seq coverage, enabling the in-silico analysis of variant effects across multiple layers of gene regulation.
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Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
obesity installs an epigenetic memory that persists even after weight loss this memory makes animals gain weight again rapidly -- maybe part of why dieting is insufficient imagine we'll see reprogramming medicines to restore healthy, youthful function in these cells over time
nature.com
Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss - Nature
Stable epigenetic changes indicate the existence of an obesogenic memory in mouse adipocytes that primes cells for pathological responses in an obesogenic environment and potentially contributes to th...
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Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
early autumn @newlimitbio.bsky.social: - 0 → 70 TF sets tested in human hepatocytes via a chimeric liver system - +2779 TF sets tested in T cells - +51 sets that reverse phenotypic age in T cells - 5 → 7 functional assays for hepatocyte age - 0 → 80% efficiency LNP-mRNA delivery bit.ly/4g0NKJV
blog.newlimit.com
September // October 2024 Progress Update
In chimerico reprogramming
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Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
late summer @newlimit - world's largest partial reprogramming screen (again) - 3x'd speed of sequencing turn-around - 5x'd reprog factor library size - built our first integrated reprog corpus for model training - team += 3 blog.newlimit.com/p/july-augus...
blog.newlimit.com
July-August 2023 Progress Update
Recursive record setting
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