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10 bio companies on the edge of legality and ethics: - Alcor - freezes people after death (running since 1974; >200 people frozen) - Viagen - clones animals like cats, dogs, and horses for private owners - Nectome - brain preservation co aiming at long-term memory preservation (Sam Altman on waitlist)___LI... See more

I did a writeup on Minicircle, the gene therapy startup injecting people with ~plasmids~ tl;dr: Minicircle is claiming obviously implausible numbers in plasmid capabilities and delivery efficiency: several orders of magnitude above the state of the art. Link in the next tweet

In biotech, how have companies increased the perception to reality (PR) ratio? - Bigger swings which shift the Overton window (Cradle Bio, @newlimit) - Platforms with broader scope to treat diseases with a new modality (@moderna_tx, @BlueRockTx ) - Massive unique datasets which create stron... See more

Dual concurrent DNA builds going. Can create 192 plasmids / day at approx $20 per plasmid https://t.co/bhEEWizcQf