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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 24/12/2025
✨Happy holidays and best wishes for 2026 from Thermal!✨
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 23/12/2025
National Geographic names CRISPR among the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the last 25 years and gives @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social @innovativegenomics.bsky.social the last word on what's next. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
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The biggest scientific breakthroughs of the last 25 years—and a few to watch
From decoding the human genome to exploring the universe, science has made huge strides in the 21st century.
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Nautilus Biotechnology @nautilus.bio · 23/12/2025
In this 2025 wrap‑up episode of the #TranslatingProteomics podcast, Parag Mallick and Andreas Huhmer share their reflections on the year’s developments in proteomics largely inspired by their observations at HUPO 2025. www.nautilus.bio/blog/reflect...
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Reflections on Proteomics - 2025 Year-End Wrap-Up
Parag and Andreas share their reflection on proteomics in 2025.
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 16/12/2025
.@jenniferdoudna.bsky.social and @urnov.bsky.social at the @innovativegenomics.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com on how a platform approach to CRISPR could finally change the economics of treating rare diseases and why Baby KJ’s treatment is the proof of concept. www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
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The Rarest of All Diseases Are Becoming Treatable
This year, gene-editing technology was customized to fix mutations in a single patient’s genes for the first time.
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Nautilus Biotechnology @nautilus.bio · 11/12/2025
The rapid pace of innovation reflects the ingenuity and creativity of researchers in the field. For our takeaways from HUPO 2025, check out this blog: www.nautilus.bio/blog/nautilu...
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Nautilus at HUPO 2025 - Redefining proteomics with single-molecule Iterative Mapping
Find our takeaways from HUPO 2025 and learn why we're excited work with members of the HUPO community to redefine proteomics!
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Scribe Therapeutics @scribetx.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
We’re excited to be featured in @longevitytech.bsky.social, where @mrdannysullivan.bsky.social sits down with our CEO @benjaminloakes.bsky.social to discuss how next-gen CRISPR therapies could extend lifespans by revolutionizing the treatment paradigm for CVD. Read the full piece: bit.ly/4riTDZn
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Can genetic medicine solve cardiovascular disease?
Scribe Therapeutics CEO on how CRISPR technologies are ready to move beyond rare diseases and take on the world’s biggest killers.
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Scribe Therapeutics @scribetx.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Listen to Scribe’s co-founder, Jennifer Doudna, speak to the vision that Scribe was founded on – unlocking #CRISPR to revolutionize the standard of care for cardiometabolic disease. "I really hope that gene editing technology, like CRISPR, becomes a preventative [therapy]..." 🧵
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Scribe Therapeutics @scribetx.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We're excited to share breakthrough preclinical data across our cardiometabolic pipeline presented at #AHA25, highlighting our comprehensive strategy to address the key drivers of #ASCVD. Thanks to Fierce Biotech‘s Darren Incorvaia for the feature: www.fiercebiotech.com/research/scr...
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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
1/2 From IGI Founder @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social: “Congratulations to my colleagues Omar Yaghi & John Clarke — the two latest UC Berkeley Nobel Laureates! Omar’s development of metal-organic frameworks changed the way we capture carbon, store energy & harvest water from desert air. shorturl.at/GpBsu
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UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Berkeley News
Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.
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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
From IGI Founder Jennifer Doudna: "Jane Goodall showed us what a life in science could look like: rigorous discovery paired with fierce advocacy for what you study. She gave the world six decades of groundbreaking research on chimpanzees and their habitats... 1/2
Portrait of Jane Goodall
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Scribe Therapeutics @scribetx.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Ahead of #WorldHeartDay, Taylor Swift recently raised an important reminder: heart disease is the leading cause of death, and one person dies from it every 34 seconds. For some, including her father, a routine stress test revealed severe disease early enough to undergo surgery.
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Scribe Therapeutics @scribetx.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
An important piece in @forbes.com by Leaps By Bayer highlighting the dangers of high cholesterol, the urgent need for solutions beyond statins, and Scribe’s advances developing #CRISPR gene editing and epigenetic silencing therapies for cardiometabolic disease. www.forbes.com/sites/juerge...
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Treating High Cholesterol Could Become A One-And-Done Treatment
Gene editing and epigenetic silencing offer two ways of changing the basic biology of cholesterol for future treatments beyond statins.
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 12/09/2025
Check out ON CRISPR: The Story of Jennifer Doudna - a new podcast from Walter Isaacson about the story of @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social - CRISPR co-inventor, Nobel laureate, @innovativegenomics.bsky.social founder - and key updates, including the case of Baby KJ. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...
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ON CRISPR Episode 1: Beginnings
Podcast Episode · ON CRISPR: The Story of Jennifer Doudna with Walter Isaacson · S3 E1 · 26m
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Scribe Therapeutics @scribetx.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
📣 Presenting new breakthrough data from two of our core platforms 📣 We're proud to showcase the success of our Lp(a)-lowering therapy STX-1200 and novel #AI platform, DeepXE, for next-generation #CRISPR-based therapeutics. More details in our link below 👇
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 08/09/2025
Thanks to Amy Marcus, Alex Janin, and Shane Shifflett @wsj.com for covering the $5B longevity investment landscape, including our clients BioAge and Retro, and the ecosystem of companies working to translate aging research into therapies for longer, healthier lives. www.wsj.com/health/welln...
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The Billionaires Fueling the Quest for Longer Life
A network of ultrawealthy investors including Peter Thiel and Sam Altman are infusing the longevity industry with cash and making big bets on where the science is headed.
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Scribe Therapeutics @scribetx.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This fall, we are thrilled to present our latest updates on our #CRISPR genetic and epigenetic editing therapies, new machine learning approach, and corporate strategy at several premier conferences. If you’ll be at #ECCongress, #CGMesa25, and others, read on for more details 👇
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Andrew Dunn @andrewedunn.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Exclusive: I talked with leaders of OpenAI and Retro Bio about new lab results from an AI protein model called GPT-4b micro. While the model won't be released publicly, the research shows how LLMs could be applied to life sciences research: endpoints.news/openai-retro...
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Exclusive: OpenAI, Retro Bio detail lab results with AI protein model, plan use in drug program
OpenAI and Retro Biosciences report AI-made proteins showed 50x better cell reprogramming using modified Yamanaka factors, with potential therapeutic applications
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Andrew Dunn @andrewedunn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Exclusive: Formation Bio raised a $372M Series D last year. Later today, the New York biopharma will announce its first licensing deal since raising that money — bringing in a CD226 antibody from the Spanish biotech IMIDomics. My latest for @endpts.com: endpoints.news/exclusive-fo...
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Exclusive: Formation licenses first drug since $372M raise, eyes more deals in 2025
Formation Bio licenses first-in-class anti-CD226 antibody from IMIDomics for IBD treatment, marking first drug acquisition since $372M Series D raise in 2023.
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 29/07/2025
CRISPR pioneer and Nobel laureate @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social is featured in the inaugural issue of The Shift. This first issue honors Gloria Steinem's legacy and brings together 90 extraordinary women whose work is opening doors for future generations. theshiftison.com/jennifer-dou...
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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We’re thrilled to announce IGI–Bakar Labs. This new building will allow the IGI to continue expanding our impact in health and agricultural applications of #CRISPR, and will be shared with the Bakar Labs incubator for growing biotech companies. Learn more: news.berkeley.edu/2025/07/17/c...
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CRISPR researchers and startup entrepreneurs will share new building in UC Berkeley's Innovation Zone - Berkeley News
A planned addition to the campus's Innovation Zone will expand lab space for the Innovative Genomics Institute and build out the largest innovation hub — Bakar Labs — at any U.S. university.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
A new Pediatric Center for CRISPR Cures builds on the recent saved life of Baby KJ, who expeditiously had bespoke in vivo base genome editing @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social @doudna-lab.bsky.social @innovativegenomics.bsky.social @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social erictopol.substack.com/p/new-center...
Our conversation photo and photo of Baby KKJ
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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
We're excited to announce that the IGI is teaming up with @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social to create a new center for pediatric #CRISPR cures @UCSF + @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social building on the recent success of an on-demand CRISPR therapy for Baby KJ. Read more: ow.ly/XUQH50Wmt7U
Aysel Ogul, an undergraduate research assistant at the IGI, pipetting in the lab with her mentor Kevin Briseno
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Nautilus Biotechnology @nautilus.bio · 01/07/2025
On the blog, we’re diving into data from our new preprint covering Iterative Mapping of proteoforms. Today we focus on the method, its benefits, and why the analysis of tau proteoforms is a great exemplar for the power of this work: www.nautilus.bio/blog/iterati... #Proteomics #Proteoforms
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Iterative Mapping of proteoforms may reveal novel biology and new drug targets
Learn how Iterative Mapping of proteoforms can provide novel insights into biology with tau proteoforms as exemplars.
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 19/06/2025
Read @faylinphd.bsky.social’s article for more context. www.genengnews.com/topics/artif...
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Agenus and Noetik Collaboration Will Predict Cancer Biomarkers Using the Virtual Cell
Noetik will use its multimodal AI models to identify which patients will most likely benefit from Agenus’s lead immuno-oncology combination, BOT/BAL.
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 19/06/2025
Agenus and Noetik announced a collaboration to develop AI-enabled predictive biomarkers for BOT/BAL using foundation models of “virtual cell” biology. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
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Agenus and Noetik Enter Collaboration to Develop AI-Enabled Predictive Biomarkers for BOT/BAL Using Foundation Models of Virtual Cell Biology
Agenus and Noetik Enter Collaboration to Develop AI-Enabled Predictive Biomarkers for BOT/BAL Using Foundation Models of Virtual Cell Biology
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 16/06/2025
Joe Betts-LaCroix (CEO of Retro Bio) has bigger concerns - he wants to add another ten years to the lifespan of half the world’s population. “I’d like to know how my body works and, if it’s going to break, I’d like to know how to prevent that.” www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
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I witnessed the birth of an immortality cult — surely it can’t last?
The tech bros believe we are close to conquering death. Matt Rudd travels to the ‘superhuman summit’ in Stockholm to sample body scanners and bone broth
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 13/06/2025
“The Hidden Barriers Holding Back Cancer’s Most Promising Treatments” by Georgiamune CEO Samir N. Khleif for TIME. time.com/7292783/canc...
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The Hidden Barriers Holding Back Promising Cancer Treatments
A perfect storm of scientific, economic, and cultural barriers are holding back immunotherapy's true potential, writes Samir Khleif.
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 13/06/2025
Genesis Therapeutics Appoints Aleksandra Faust as Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer. Former Google DeepMind Director brings over two decades of AI research expertise and industrial leadership to Genesis’ AI platform and high-performing research teams. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
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Genesis Therapeutics Appoints Aleksandra Faust as Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
Genesis Therapeutics appoints Aleksandra Faust as Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Thanks to the BBC's The Inquiry program for great conversations with IGI's @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social @doudna-lab.bsky.social and @urnov.bsky.social about Baby KJ, #CRISPR on-demand, and the future of personalized medicine! Listen here: www.bbc.com/audio/play/w... Photo credit: TODAY
Baby KJ looking alert and healthy
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 05/06/2025
🧬CRISPR is moving at breakneck speed! Join @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social and @emilychang.bsky.social on 6/5 for a live episode of #TheCircuit at #BloombergTech. From curing baby KJ to AIxCRISPR, this will be a candid conversation on gene editing's impact and future. Livestream: www.bloomberg.com/live
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Carolyn Johnson @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
In case you needed a smile this Tuesday: 10-month-old baby KJ, who received a bespoke gene-editing therapy after a six month scientific sprint - "graduated" from the hospital @childrensphila.bsky.social today and went HOME! YAY SCIENCE! Here's his story: wapo.st/451ZQjT
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 04/06/2025
BioAge Labs announced today a breakthrough dual-track approach to exercise mimetic obesity treatment that could solve major limitations of current GLP-1 therapies by targeting energy expenditure rather than just appetite suppression. www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
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BioAge Expands APJ Agonist Pipeline with Oral Small-Molecule and Long-Acting Biologic Candidates
Company enters option agreement with JiKang Therapeutics to in-license novel APJ agonist antibody New composition of matter IP filed for chemically...
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 29/05/2025
US supercomputer named after Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna to power AI and scientific research apnews.com/article/nvid...
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US supercomputer named after Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna to power AI and scientific research
A new supercomputer named after a winner of the Nobel Prize in chemistry will help power artificial intelligence technology and scientific discoveries from a perch in the hills above the University of...
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 29/05/2025
BioAge Labs completes IND-enabling studies for BGE-102, a potent, orally available, brain-penetrant NLRP3 inhibitor, and advances candidate toward the clinic. www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
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BioAge Labs completes IND-enabling studies for BGE-102, a potent, orally available, brain-penetrant NLRP3 inhibitor, and advances candidate toward the clinic
IND submission planned for mid-2025 with Phase 1 SAD data anticipated by year end BGE-102 induced weight loss in preclinical obesity models, both as...
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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Victoria Gray, the first individual to be cured of sickle cell disease with a CRISPR-based treatment, and Jennifer Doudna, #CRISPR pioneer, at the Liberty Science Center Genius Gala! 👑👑
Victoria Gray looking radiant in a black evening gownVictoria Gray and Jennifer Doudna sitting together
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Kaustuva Das @kaustuvadas.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Nobel laureate and #CRISPR pioneer @jenniferdoudna.bsky.social @innovativegenomics.bsky.social says her best insights often arrive when she is "weeding tomato plants" or "while asleep." A welcome reminder that innovation thrives in calm, reflective spaces. 🍅🌿✂️ www.ft.com/content/c42c...
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How to be a great thinker
Seven habits of highly intelligent people
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Endpoints News @endpts.com · 20/05/2025
Longevity startup Retro Biosciences working on personalized blood disorders seeks $1b in funds.
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Retro Biosciences inks blood disorder deal as Sam Altman-backed biotech seeks $1B in funds
A longevity startup called Retro Biosciences is working on personalized blood disorder therapies thanks to a partnership with the Murdoch Children's Research Institute in Australia. The California bio...
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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
In a medical breakthrough, a team including IGI’s @urnov.bsky.social & @giannikopoulosp.bsky.social created an on-demand #CRISPR therapy for an infant with a deadly gene mutation — developed, approved, and delivered to the patient in just 6 months. Read more: ow.ly/G0Bg50VTonC #RareDisease 🧬
The patient, KJ, reaching out after infusion of the CRISPR therapy, with a big smile! Photo credit Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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Scribe Therapeutics @scribetx.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
We’re pleased to announce the achievement of a success milestone in our collaboration with Prevail Therapeutics, a part of @elilillyandcompany.bsky.social’s Gene Therapy Division, to develop in vivo #CRISPR-based therapeutics for neurological and neuromuscular disorders. Highlights below 🧵
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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Catch IGI's Exec Director Brad Ringeisen on @npr.org's TED Radio Hour sharing how #CRISPR is changing the food we grow and eat to adapt to climate change! 🧬🌾🌏 Listen here: ow.ly/pyCZ50VEbML
Brad on stage giving a talk with an image of the globe behind him
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Scribe Therapeutics @scribetx.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Happy #DNADay25! Today we celebrate the revolutionary discovery of the double helix and ongoing innovations in genomics. 🧬 Scribe is dedicated to unlocking the next frontier of genetics and epigenetics to create novel #CRISPR-based therapies. Learn more: scribetx.com
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Innovative Genomics Institute @innovativegenomics.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Catch IGI's Exec Director Brad Ringeisen on @npr.org's TED Radio Hour sharing how #CRISPR is changing the food we grow and eat to adapt to climate change! 🧬🌏🌾 Listen here: ow.ly/pyCZ50VEbML
Brad Ringeisen
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 16/04/2025
Jennifer Doudna @innovativegenomics.bsky.social on Demis Hassabis for TIME100. "In our conversations, I’ve been struck by his clarity of vision and sense of responsibility. He’s building AI tools that don’t just help us understand life, but help us shape it wisely." Link: time.com/collections/...
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 02/04/2025
🤝 2pm: Panel discussion with Genesis Therapeutics CSO Shifeng Pan on accelerating pharmaceutical innovation through strategic collaborations. Our thanks to Kia Rao Macpherson and the Biocom team. For more information on visit: www.biocom.org/conferences/...
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Converge Summit
A Bay Area executive-level conference advancing human health through the convergence of life science and technology.
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 02/04/2025
🩺 9:30am: Fireside chat with Retro Biosciences CEO Joe Betts-LaCroix on harnessing AI/ML to advance human health and longevity. 🚀 10am: Panel discussion with Profluent Bio CEO @thisismadani.bsky.social on pioneering AI-powered drug discovery.
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 02/04/2025
This year several @thermalpr.bsky.social clients will participate to discuss their vision and innovation across biotech and AI. If you are attending, don't miss these sessions 👇
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 02/04/2025
Thermal is proud to support Biocom California's 2025 Converge Summit. The event is a gathering of thought leaders dedicated to advancing human health through life science and technology collaboration.
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 26/03/2025
“We will find the best new drugs by pairing the smartest scientists with the most powerful AI platform, and I think that synergy will continue for some time.” - Evan Feinberg, CEO of Genesis Therapeutics www.scientificamerican.com/custom-media...
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Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Healthcare
Powerful AI-based tools have begun to accelerate disease diagnoses and mine data in search of novel drugs
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Thermal @thermalpr.com · 21/03/2025
“We believe this is more than an advancement—it’s a leap toward rewriting the future of medicine.” - @benjaminloakes.bsky.social, CEO of @scribetx.bsky.social www.genengnews.com/topics/genom...
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From Tools to Trials: Editing Therapy Companies Pivot to Development
A pair of privately-held developers of editing-based therapies have some successes to show for their recent efforts to address the longtime challenge of bringing their treatments to patients by sharpe...
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Benjamin L. Oakes @benjaminloakes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
This week, I’ll highlight two recent CRISPR advances: 1) BEAM’s exciting Phase 1 clinical data for BEAM-302. 2) Impressive work from the labs of Scribe’s co-founders @savagecatsonly.bsky.social & @doudna-lab.bsky.social —providing a textbook example of engineering CRISPR enzymes from zero to hero.
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