Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 25/02/2026the best history reads like fiction, the best fiction reads like history 110
Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 20/11/2025biology 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. 040
Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025we'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. 0100
Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 04/05/2025health 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. 030
Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 05/04/2025AI2's paper finder is one of the best improvements to my research workflow in years highly recommended:allenai.orgIntroducing Ai2 Paper Finder | Ai2Ai2 Paper Finder is an LLM-powered literature search system that mimics the iterative paper-finding process. 0112
Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 23/03/2025each 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.comNewLimit Progress Update 2025YouTube video by NewLimit 093
Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025early 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/4iuBvqCblog.newlimit.comJanuary // February 2025 Progress UpdateTherapeutic beginnings 050
Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 01/03/2025cognitive 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 030
Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 09/01/20252024 @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/4h7rrD3bit.ly2024 Year in ReviewRestoring youthful function 0101
Reposted by Jacob KimmelAnshul Kundaje @anshulkundaje.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Congrats 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/nature.comPredicting RNA-seq coverage from DNA sequence as a unifying model of gene regulation - Nature GeneticsBorzoi 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. 212337
Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 27/11/2024obesity 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 timenature.comAdipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss - NatureStable 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... 0173
Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 23/11/2024early 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/4g0NKJVblog.newlimit.comSeptember // October 2024 Progress UpdateIn chimerico reprogramming 1163
Jacob Kimmel @jacobkimmel.bsky.social · 09/09/2023late 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.comJuly-August 2023 Progress UpdateRecursive record setting 071