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sachinxr.bsky.social
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🧪 Decentralized science platforms are changing how scientists fund, conduct, and publish research. ✍️🏾 For @synbiobeta.bsky.social, I write about what that means for building with #SyntheticBiology. www.synbiobeta.com/read/decentr...

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Participants in clinical trials have been abandoned in the middle of clinical trials because of a Trump order. The stop-work order on USAID-funded research has left thousands w/ experimental drugs & devices in their bodies w/ no access to monitoring or care www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

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New article by @synbiobeta.bsky.social and Sachin Rawat on the advances in synthetic biology driving innovation in climate resilient crop improvement. Interviews with myself, Claire Grierson (Univ. Bristol), Todd Michael (Salk, Cquesta), Karsten Temme (Pivotbio). www.synbiobeta.com/read/enginee...

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🧪🫚 Plants use roots to find water and nutrients, interact with soil microbes, and withstand environmental stresses. For @synbiobeta.bsky.social, I wrote about how engineering roots to upgrade these functions could make crops climate resilient. www.synbiobeta.com/read/enginee...

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🧪 Interview request: I'm looking to interview a #PublicHealth researcher who could speak on how street-level weather forecasts can be used for urban public health. My DMs are open!

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🧪 New for @physicsmagazine.bsky.social: Multiple chromosome sets dilute the impact of a single mutation. However, redundancy also allows for the gain of new functions. Does polyploidy speed up or slow down #evolution? ✍️🏽 I write about a new study on this puzzle. physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

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🧪 Interview request: I'm looking to interview a #PublicHealth researcher who could speak on how street-level weather forecasts can be used for urban public health. My DMs are open!

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🧪 If you cannot eat a particular food item, no matter how hard you try, it’s likely that your negative expectations, more than the taste itself, determine that outcome. 🥗 I wrote about how expectations influence our subjective experience of food. bigthink.com/neuropsych/y...

submitted 45 days ago • 4 comments

🧪 Hello Bluesky! I'm a freelance science writer. For an article, I'm looking to speak with a (theoretical, computational, evolutionary, etc) biologist who could comment on this new study on #polyploidy and #evolution. My DMs are open if that's you! journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

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What are the limits to engineering multicellular systems? Can we invent new organs or synthetic behaviour? We discuss these and other ideas in our latest paper with @jordiplam.bsky.social @jgojalvo.bsky.social @drmichaellevin.bsky.social & cols www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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🧪 Hello Bluesky! I'm a freelance science writer. For an article, I'm looking to speak with a (theoretical, computational, evolutionary, etc) biologist who could comment on this new study on #polyploidy and #evolution. My DMs are open if that's you! journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

submitted 58 days ago • 3 comments

📄 RNA dynamically folds into secondary structures that can be put together into more complex shapes. ✍🏽 My latest for synbiobeta.bsky.social looks at how researchers are folding RNA into custom nanostructures with therapeutics and gene editing applications. www.synbiobeta.com/read/fabrica...

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Materials for #bioelectronic interfaces are either too rigid to be paired with living tissues or have poor electrical performance. Now researchers have created a hydrogel semiconductor that hits the sweet spot. physics.aps.org/articles/v17... ✍️ My first article for @physicsmagazine.bsky.social.

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Implantable devices such as glucose monitors for diabetics and pacemakers for heart patients need interfaces that are both electronically capable and biocompatible. Researchers have now found a new material that fits the bill: a hydrogel semiconductor.

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